SAPINDACEiE. 213 



Plate ISO. 



SAPINDUS, Tourn. 



Calyx 5-partitus. Petala 5, regularia, intiis sa3piiis squa- 

 mula aucta. Stamina 8-10, disco regulari inserta. Ovarium 

 centrale, 3-loculare ; loculis uniovulatis ; stylo unico. Fruc- 

 tus carnosus, 1-2- (rarissime 3-) lobus. Semen sphsericum, 

 exarillatum ; testa ossea. — Arbores, foliis abrupte pinnatis. 



Sapindus, Tourn. Inst. p. .569. t. 440. Linn. Gen. 449. Juss. Gen. p. 

 247. Lam. 111. t. 370. Gtertn. Fr. 1. t. 70. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 

 607. Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 1. p. 389. t. 8L Deless. Ic. 

 3. t. 37. Wight, 111. Ind. Bot. t. 51. Endl. Gen. 5610. 



SoapberiT* 



Calyx of five nearly equal sepals, a little united at the 

 base, quincuncially imbricated in sestivation, deciduous. Disk 

 fleshy, annular, regular, entire or crenate-lobed, hypogynous, 

 or somewhat perigynous. Petals 5, equal, alternate with 

 the sepals, inserted under the thickened edge of the disk, 

 more or less unguiculate, naked, or often appendiculate with 

 an entire or two-cleft scale at the summit of the claw on the 

 inside, quincuncially imbricated in sestivation, deciduous. 

 Stamens 8, sometimes 10, inserted on the disk immediately 

 under the ovary, equal : filaments subulate or filiform : 

 ANTHERS fixed near the base, introrse, two-celled, the cells 

 opening longitudinally. Ovary central, sessile, three-lobcd, 

 three-celled : styles united into one : stigmas 3, connivent. 

 Ovule solitary in each cell, anatropous or partly amphitro- 

 pous, erect from the base, or ascending from the inner angle 

 below the middle of each cell ; the raphe ventral. 



Fruit fleshy or baccate, formed of a single globose carpel, 

 the others being abortive ; sometimes two such carpels ripen 

 and are more or less connate at the base, or rarely all three, 

 when the fruit is thrce-lobcd. Seed solitary in each carpel. 



