SAPINDACE.S. ill 



3-6-agonal ; cells 3-6 ; style erect, stigmatiferous 3-6-fid or 

 dentate at apex. Ovules in cells 2, collateral or subsuperposed ; 

 one generally ascendent ; the other descendent. Fruit capsular, 

 membraneous or subcoriaceous, 2-G-agonalor 2-6-winged, septicidally 

 2-6-valved ; valves dorsally winged or cariuate ; columella per- 

 sistently septiferous, seminiferous. Seeds compressed exarillate ; 

 funicle sometimes incrassate at apex ; testa coriaceous or hard ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo rather wide, more or less 

 spirally-convolute. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes viscous ; leaves 

 alternate simple or more rarely paripinnate ; flowers in axillary and 

 terminal racemose-composite or corymbiform racemes (sometimes 

 few or 1 -flowered.) [All hot reg?) 



40. Distichostemon F. Muei,l.- — Flowers polygamo-diœcious 

 (nearly of Doclonœa) apetalous ; sepals 5-S, linear-oblong, imbricated, 

 finally not contiguous on both sides. Stamens go, central, free ; 

 filaments very short erect ; anthers elongated basifixed hispid apiculate, 

 introrsely 2-rimose; the interior sometimes imperfect. Germen (in 

 male flower rudimentary or 0) siu-rounded by small disk ; cells 2-4, 

 2-ovulate (of Doclonœa) ; style slender, simple or 2-4-dentate stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. CajDsule 2-4-locular, septicidal ; cells dorsally 

 produced above in short coriaceous wings; valves 2-4, free from 

 walls of 2-4-pterous columella, 1- or 2-spermous. — Whitish tomentose 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate sessile oblong entire reticulate-veined ; 

 flowers in terminal subsimple or slightly ramified racemes ; pedicels 

 short.^ {Trop. Australia}) 



41? Alvaradoa Liebji.^ — Flowers regular diœcious ; male calyx 

 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, alternating with sepals, filiform, capil- 

 laceous or 0. Stamens 5 (in female flower 0), oppositipetalous 

 inserted between the 5 lobes of rather thick central disk ; filaments 

 long subulate exserted ; anthers introrse ; cells linear parallel, longi- 



' Spec, atout 50. Evdg. Trans. Linn. Soc. Ann. i. 135; ii. 223; iv. 381; vii. 634. 



xi. t. 19, 20.— Wight, III. t. 52.— H. B. K. ^ ^foo^. Keiv Journ. ix. 306.— B. H. Gen. 410, 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 132, t. 442.— Andr. in n. 04. 



Bot. Repos, t. 230.— Endl. Ataht. t. 31. — ' A genus nearly allied to Dodoncea with 



A. S. H. Fl. Bias. Mer. i. 392.— Bl. Simp/mi, which it was long confounded, differing chiefly 



iii. 188. — Hook. r. Fl. Nov.-Zel. i. 38 ; Man. in habit and androceum. 



44.— Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 127.— Hakv. et ■< Spec. 1. D. hispiduhm.—D . phylloptertis 



SoND. Ft. Cap. i. 241.- Thw. Ei.nm. Fl. Zeijl. 59. F. MuEiL. Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 306.— Benth. 



— Benth. tl. Austral, i. 472.— Boiss. Fl. Or. i. Fl. Austral, i. 487.— Walp. Ann. vii. 637.— 



953.— Bakeh, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 433.— Tk. et Pl. Dudonœa hiapiduta Endl. Atakt. t. 30. 



Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, xviii. 378. — MoNTnorz. ' Vidensk. Meddel. Kjolien. (1853), 100. — 



AUm. Acad. Li/on.x. 1S9.— Bot. Mag. t. 2860.— B. U. Ocn. 411, n. 67. 

 Bof. Reg. t. 442.— W.\lp. Rep. i. 421 ; v. 368; 



