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Endlichek,^ under the name of Meliosmeai, between Sapindacece and 

 Hippocastanece. We replace them as a series in the family of 

 Sapindacece, adding seven new genera * and replacing Huertea of 

 Euiz and Pa von, Ganophyllum of Bltjme, and Filicium of Thwaites; 

 which, without the imperfectly known types whose place is quite un- 

 certain,^ raises the number of genera to seventy-four. We group 

 them in eight series whose general characters are as follows : 



1. Staphyle^. — Hermaphrodite flowers, regular, with depressed 

 or slightly concave receptacle, lined by a disk whose thickened edge 

 is interior to stamens which are equal in number to the petals. 

 Carpels totally independent or united to a variable height. 

 Ovules 2- 00. Fruit dry or fleshy. Seeds with or without aril, with 

 albumen and rectilinear embryo. Leaves opposite, simple or com- 

 pound. — 2 genera. 



2. Sabie^. — Hermaphrodite or uni-sexual regular flowers. Disk 

 interior to stamens superposed to the petals and equal or less in 

 number. Carpels independent or united in an ovary with 2 or 3 

 cells. Ovules 2 in each cell, more or less distinctly ascendent and 

 anatropous, micropyle directed downwards and outwards. Fruit dry 

 or fleshy, generally indehiscent. Seeds with albumen wanting or very 

 slight, a bent embryo, conduplicate or rolled in a spiral. Leaves 

 alternate (rarely opposite), simple or compound pinnate. — 2 genera. 



3. Sapinde^. — Flowers regular or nearly so, polygamo-dicecious. 

 Petals equal, the same in number as the divisions of the calyx and 

 alternate with them, often lined by a scale. Disk exterior to the 

 androceum, more rarely interior or interposed to the stamens, com- 

 plete, circular, regular or nearly so. Gynseceum central with 1-2- 



1 Gen. 1165. ii. 184, t. 6 ; — H. Bn. Euphorbiae. 657). 



2 Puclonephelium, Crossonephelis, [Eriandro- African tree (cultivated in hothouses), with 

 staohys, Melieopsidium, Pseudopteris, Averrhoi- compound-digitate, opposite leaves, fruit cap- 

 dium, PseudataUya. sular, loculioidal, and cells dispermous. Doubt- 



2 1st. Eynlathes (Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 234) ; ful Euphorbiaeeee, according to Hookeh. Sa- 



DO. Prodr. i. 618 {Eustathes) ; — Endl. Qen. pindacea: (M. Aug. loo. cit.). 



n. 5633). — Tree with entire alternate leaves, 4th. Eacaria (Aubl. Guian. ii. Suppl. 24, t. 



flowers, S-merous, 8-androus, fruit fleshy, I- 382). Shruh with compound pinnate leaves, 



locular, 4-spermous. drupaceous fruit containing two or three 



2ad. Sedycarpus (Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. monospermous kernels (very imperfectly de- 



xiv. 113;— Bndl. Qm. n. 5877; Suppl. iii. 79, scribed and doubtfully referred to the Sapin- 



nec Hassk. nee Miq.). — Euphorbiaoca, ex B. H. dacea). 



G-en. 392. " Recte ad Sapindaceas translatua 6th.. Sehieckea (Kaust. Bot. Zeit. (1848), 



fuit," M. Arg. DC. Prodr. xv. sect. ii. 1269 398). "Gen. ut viletur Serjaniie affine, ex 



(Schmidelia 1 T) descr. futuli tantum notum " (B. H. Q-en. 392. 



3rd. OUfleUia (B. H. Boole. .Journ. (1850), 



voi,. v, 



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