SAPINDACBAE 303 



1. SALACIA Linnaeus 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, ei^tire or somewhat 

 toothed. Flowers few to many, usually in axillary, clusters, more rarely 

 cymose. Calyx small, 6-lobed. Petals 6, imbricate. Stamens usually 3,' 

 sometimes 2 or 4, inserted on the disk. Ovary conical, immersed in the disk, 

 S-celled; style very short; stigma simple or 3-Iobed; ovules 2 to 8 in each 

 cell, in 1 or 2 series, inserted in the inner angle. Fruit fleshy, drupaceous, 

 indehiscent. (A name of Greek mythology, the wife of Neptune.) 



Species about 85, in all tropical countries, 3 or 4 in the Philippines. 



1. S. prinoides (Willd.) DC. 



A climbing shrub reaching a height of 4 m or more, quite glabrous. 

 Leaves oblong, shining, 8 to 16 cm long, entire or faintly and distantly 

 toothed, acute or slightly acuminate, base usually acute. Cymes axillary, 

 solitary, peduncled, dicbotomous,- few-flowered, 2.5 to 3 cm long. Sepals 

 very small. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, yellow, about 3.6 mm long, spreading 

 or reflexed. Stamens S, rarely 4. Fruit ovoid or globose, red, about 1 cm 

 in diameter, 1-seeded. (Fl. Filip. pi. 86.) 



In dry thickets opposite Fort McKinley, fl. Jan.-Apr.; widely distributed 

 in the Philippines. India and Ceylon to Malaya. 



79. SAPiNDACEAE (SOAPBERRY OR Alupag Family) 



Shrubs or trees, or in Cardioapermum wity, herbaceous, tendril-bearing 

 vines. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, pinnate, 3-foliolate, or 

 palmately compound, the leaflets entire or toothed, in the pinnate lei^ves 

 alternate or opposite. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, racemose or 

 panicled. Flowers small, regular, irregular, or unsymmetrical, somettmes 

 polygamci^ioecious. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, often unequal, the lobes or sepals 

 imbricate or valvate. Petals free, equal or unequal, 4 or 5, rarely none, 

 often bearded or with a scale at the base "within. Disk annular or uni- 

 lateral. Stamens 5 to 10, inserted inside or outside of the disk; filaments 

 often pubescent, free. Ovary frequently excentric, entire or lobed, 1- to 

 4-ceIled, cells 1- or 2-ovuled. Fruit capsular, dehiscent or indehiscent, or 

 sometimes berry-like, entire or lobed. Seeds arillate or naked. 



Genera about 180, species more than 1,000, in all parts of the world, 

 chiefly tropical, 25 genera an5 about 70 species in the Philippines. 



1. Tendril bearing herbaceous vines with bitemate leaves, the capsules 



inflated !• Cardwapermum 



1. Erect shrubs or trees. 

 2. Fruit indehiscent. 



3. Shrubs with palmately 8- to 5-foliolate leaves 2. Allophylua 



3. Leaves pinnate. 

 4. Basal leaflets large and stipule-like; shrubs with smooth, fleshy 



fruits " 3. Otophora 



4. Basal leaflets not enlarged; trees with roughened or tubercled 



fruits : - B. Euphoria 



2. Fruit dehiscent. 

 3. Capsules obovoid, 3-wingBd, 8-celled; leaves not glandular beneath. 



5. Guioa 



8. Capsules of one or two, ellipsoid, terete lobes; leaves with prominent 



glands in the axils of the nerves on the lower surface.... 6. Arytera 



