SAPINDAOEJE. 395 



terminal and axillary more or less ramified-eompound cymiferous 

 racemes. [All trop. and suhtrop. reg.) See p. 348. 



6. Euphoria J.^ — Flowers polygamous-dioecious (nearly of Sapin- 

 dus) ; sepals 5, rather large, subvalvate or imbricated. , Petals 5, or 

 4, 3 (sometimes 0), esquamate or squamate. Stamens 6-10, interior 

 to regular disk ; anthers oblong introrsely rimose. Germen central, 

 2-3-lobed ; 2, 3, cells and ovules of Sapindus ; style erect between 

 lobes more or less deeply 3-lobed ; lobes recurved, inwardly stigma- 

 tiferous. Eruit 1-3-coccous ; cocci ovoid or globose crustaceous, 

 smooth or shortly tuberculate, sometimes finally unequally broken. 

 Seed subglobose, enclosed by pulpy aril ; testa coriaceous ; coty- 

 ledons of exalbuminous embryo thick plano-convex ; radicle short 

 inferior. — Trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; subopposite folioles 

 and inflorescence of Sapindus , terminal or axillary. ( Trop. Asia and 

 Oceania?) 



7. Nephelium L.^ — Flowers polygamous-dioecious (nearly of Sap- 

 indus or Euphoria) \ calyx small cupular, 4- 6 -dentate ; teeth short, 

 valvate, slightly imbricate or not contiguous. Petals 4-6, villous or 

 sometimes squamate within, more rarely 0. Stamens interior to com- 

 pletely annular pubescent or glabrous disk 5-10, oftener 8 ; anthers 

 introrse (effete in female flower). Germen central (rudimentary in 

 male flower) 2-3-dymous or 2-3-lobed ; cells 3, 3, 1-ovulate ; style 

 branches 2, 3, often recurved stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit cocci 

 1-3, coriaceous or subfleshy, sometimes tuberculate aculeate or 

 bristling with spines, indehiscent or more rarely subtransversely 

 {SpanogTiea *) or longitudinally and folliculately {Cubilia,^ Stadmania ®) 

 dehiscent. Seed solitary in. cocci semi-immersed in pulpy aril 

 {Spanoghea) or entirely involute ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 



1 Omi.. 248 (part.). — B. H. Gen. 406, n. 48. —Euphoria Oommeks. (ex J. Gen. 248, part.). — 



2 Spec. 8-10, of wMoh. 1 is often cultivated, SeytaKa G^btn. IPrnct. i. 197, t. 42. — Bimocar- 

 soil. 'E. Longana Lamk. Diet. iii. 574. — DO. pm Lour. Fl. Oochinch. 233, part. (inol. : Cubilia 

 Prodr. i. 611, n. 2. — Bot. Mag. t. 4096. Others Bl. Poppaa Eokl. et Zeth. Pometia Fokst. 

 generally enumerated under NepheUum axe al- Spanoghea Bl. Stadmania Lamk.). 

 waysdistinguisliedbylargerfreesepals. Cambess. ■* Bl. Stunphia, iii. 173.— B. H. Gen. 406, n. 

 in M^m. Mm. xviii. 30. — Bl. EumpMa, iii. 102. 30. 



— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 468. — Moon, Cat. 31 * Bl. StmpMa, iii. 100. — B. H. Gen. 400, n. 



(Dimoearpua). — Thw. Umirn. PI. Zeyl. 67. 27. 



' Mantiss. n. 1277. — Cambess. Mem. Mm. - Lamk. III. t. 312.-rPoiR. Diet. vii. 376. — 



xviii, 30 (part.).— Sfach, Suit, a Sitffon, m. Ql DC. Pro^. i. 615.— B. H. GeA. 406, n. 49. 



(part.).^EiiDL. Gen. n. 5617 (part.). — B. H. Baker, Fl. Mam-it. 69. 

 Gen. i05, n. 47.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Naf.SlS. 



