8AP1NDA0EJE. 



349 



Sapindus Saponaria. 



Fig. 353. Longitudinal sec- 

 tion of frait. 



three tmiovulate cells, more or less separated from each otter above 



and outwardly, surmounted by a style divided at its summit into 



three stigmatiferous lobes. The ovule, inserted near the base of 



the internal angle of each cell, is ascendent, anatropous, with the 



micropyle inferior and exterior.^ In the 



ripe fruit usually only one of the cells "is 



developed into a fleshy or coriaceous 



pericarp, indehiscent, globular or nearly 



so, accompanied at the base by the 



undeveloped carpels, and containing an 



ascendent seed, whose coats cover a large 



fleshy bent embryo with thick cotyledons 



and a short inferior radicle. In the other 



species of Sapindus, there are only eight 



or nine stamens or a still smaller number, 



those in front of the petals disappearing more or less completely ; 



the carpels are two or four in number, and several of them 



may be developed into a ripe fruit and contain a perfect seed. The 



species of Sapindus are trees or shrubs forty in number,^ inhabiting 



all the warm regions of the globe. The leaves are alternate, com- 



pound-imparipinnate or reduced to a single foliole. The flowers are 



arranged in axillary or terminal clusters, simple or, more often, 



more or less ramified. 



The Euphoria (fig. 354, 355) are analogous to Sapindus, with the 

 same free or imbricate sepals, the same disk and interior andro- 

 ceum. But the petals equal in number to the sepals or fewer 

 (sometimes completely suppressed) have no interior appendage. 

 The gynseceum, more or less developed in the male flower, has an 

 ovary with uniovulate cells, more or less projecting, with an ovule of 

 Sapindus in each cell, and a style inserted in side these. The fruit is formed 

 of one or, more rarely, of several crustaceous, smooth or tuberculous 



qui suivent les angles et indiquent line ten- 

 dance k la formation de plis {S. emarginatm, 

 Cttpania venulosa)." 



' There are two coats. 



2 A. S. H. Fl. Vs. Bras. t. 68 ; Fl. Bras. Mer. 

 i. 389, t. 81.— Wight et Abn. Prodr. i. 110.— 

 Deless. Ic. 8el. iii. 22, t. 38.— Wight, III. t. 

 51.— TtTROZ. in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 401.— Bl. 

 hia iii. 92.— MiQ. II. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



551 ; Suppl. 198, 508 ; Mus. Zugd.-Bat. iii. 92. 

 — Gribeb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 126.— Thw. Enum. 

 Pl.Zeyl. 56. -Te. et Pl. Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 4, 

 xviii. 377. — Benth. Hook. Eeiv Joum. iii. 127 ; 

 Fl. Austral, i. 464. — A. Gkay, Amer, Flxpl. Bxp. 

 Sot. i. 251.— Uahv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 240.— 

 Baker, OUv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 430.— Kl. Fet. 

 Moss. Bot. i. 119.- Walp. Jiep. i. 416 ; v. 362; 

 Ann. i. 134 ; ii. 211; iv. 378; vu. 629. 



