XLIII. SAPINDACE^. 



1. STAPHTLEA SEEIE8. 



We commence tlie study of this group by tlie analysis, not of a 

 Staphylea (fig, 335, 339-351), but ratber of a Triceros^ wbose 

 flowers (fig. 336) are regular, bermapbrodite, witb a receptacle in 

 tbe form of a cup of little deptb. Tbe edges bear five sepals and an 

 equal number of perigynous petals, botb imbricate, five altemipe- 



Staphylea pinnata. 



Fig. 335. Floriferous branch. 



talous stamens, also perigynous, each formed of a free thread and a 

 bilocular introrse anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts, and 

 also inserted perigynously. In the interior the glandular disk lining 

 the concavity of the receptacle is prolonged in a circular rim, nearly 

 entire. In the concavity of the receptacle, below the perianth and 



1 LoTJR. M. GocUnch. (^d. 1790), 184.— DC. et Zuco. Wl. Jap. i. 124, t. 67.— Enbl. Gen. n. 

 Prodr. ii. 89 {TereUnthac. dub.).— ENDL-ffsw. n. 5672.— B. H. Gen. 412, n. 72. 

 6945.— B. H. Gen. 418, 439.— ? Suacaphis Sieb. 



