SAPINDAOE^. 



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pinnate. The flowers are arranged in axillary clusters, simple or 

 ramified, with, articulate pedicels. 



II. SABIA SEEIES. 



Sabia ^ (fig. 342, 343) has flowers generally hermaphrodite. The 

 convex receptacle usually bears five imbricate sepals, five petals 

 superposed to the sepals and imbricated like them, and five oppositi- 



Sahia laneeolata. 





Fig. 342. Longitudinal section of flower (f ) 



Fig. 343. Diagram. 



petalous stamens, each formed of a free filament and an anther often 

 iiitrorse,with cells didymous oradnate to the basifixed connective, de- 

 hiscent close to the edge of it by a longitudinal cleft. The filaments 

 are inserted at the base of a cylindrical foot supporting the gynseceum, 

 and thickened in the intervals of the stamens into five projecting 

 ribs whose upper part sometimes projects upwards in the manner of 

 an alternipetalous gland. There are flowers in which the perianth 

 and androceum are tetramerous. The gynseceum is free, formed of 

 two or, more rarely, three independent carpels brought together and 

 often adhering at the internal angle ; they are each composed of an 

 unilocTilar ovary, tapering upwards in a slender style, obtuse stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. In the interior angle of each ovary is seen a lon- 



' CoLEBK. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 355, 1. 14. 

 — Endl. Gen. n. 5927. — Pl. Ann. So. Wat. s&. 

 4, iii. 296.— B. H. Gen. 414, n. l.—Meniseota 

 Bl. mjdr. 28.— Endl. Gen. n. 4688 {Menisper- 



«). — Enantia Falcon, in Hook, Journ, iv. 

 75 (not Oliv.). — Androgloasa Benth. Hooh, JCew 

 Jou/m. iii. 42. 



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