282 SAPINDACE®. 
SAPINDACE. 
Flowers usually polygamous. Sepals 4 or 5, free o united, 
imbricate or rarely valvate. Petals 4 or 5, titel one fetwet, hse 
lobed, 1-4 raaeatty 5) celled, with 1 or 2 or ely more ascend- 
hiscent, entire or separating into lobes or cocci. Seeds with or with- 
out an arillus. umen none.—Trees or shrubs, rarely twiners, 
with alternate compound or decompound rarely simple leaves ; 
flowers usually small and inconspicuous, variously arranged. 
The majority of Sapindacee are readily recognised by having 
the disk outside, not inside the stamens, and by the 8 stan in 
nee 
* Fruit ay stents Ad or neonate 
x Fruit 8 ea age Petals present. 
cal regular. 
Capsule coriaceous ; pavacare As flat: 2 . Cupa 
Stamens 10, short ; capsule woody ; Oe fiat 
Ovules 2 or more in eac cell. 
Flowers irregular ; =. eaaeeaee or tbls wae digitate . Aesculus. 
Flowers Ss tee capsules 2-valved ; leaves . Harpullia. 
X Fruit an eaehiscont samara og a a eapel dehiscing 
septicidally. Petals none or 
Fruit of 2 indehiscent samaras' . : eS « Acer. 
Fruita septicidal capsule; leavessimple . . . i" 
ps « Dodone 
8 a capsule ; leaves pinnate . Zollingeria. 
Fruit indehiscent, drupaceous, sappy, fleshy, or rarely 
ous. 
X Fruit entire, 1-4-celled. 
+ Wi ra “ peiale: sei colse anh the lobes Basiineet or 
; . Schleichera. 
—_ + With ah Sepals i imbricate. 
Albumen nnone. Stamens inserted within 
os Oi: j disk Ge engl 
ae Seale of th fetal carla . . Lepioanthes. 
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