SAPINDAOE^. 397 



free pubescent ; anthers included small introrse. Germen (rudi- 

 mentary in male flower) 2-dymous muricate ; style rather thick 

 short erect between lobes ; stigmatiferous apex divided into 3 lobes 

 unequal alternating with cells ; ovule in cell solitary subbasilar ; 

 micropyle extrorse inferior. Fruit cocci 1, 2, sessile divergent, 

 ellipsoid or obovate, thick coriaceous, outwardly pyramid-tubercu- 

 late, indehiscent, 1-spermous. Seed outwardly fleshy (arillate?) 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo large fleshy superposed ; radicle 

 curved acute. — A small tree ; leaves alternate pinnate 3-5-foliolate ; 

 folioles subopposite petiolulate coriaceous entire; flowers ■'in axillary 

 and terminal scantily ramifled-cymiferous racemes. (Jwrf. Areh.'^') 



10. DeinboUia Schum. and Thonn.^ — Flowers regular (nearly of 

 (Sapindus) polygamous-dioecious ; sepals 5 unequal, much imbri- 

 cated. Petals 5, alternate suborbioular concave, squamate or lanate- 

 ciUate within, imbricated. Stamens oo (usually 15-20) interior to 

 disk, oo-seriate ; anthers linear oblong introrse included. Germen 

 (in male flower rudimentary) 2-3-lobed to base ; style erect between 

 .cells, straight or curved, long stigmatiferous to apex ; ovules in cells 

 1, suberect; micropyle extrorse inferior.- Fruit 1-3-lobed; lobes 

 globose coriaceous. Seeds globose included in fleshy aril ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo plano-convex thick unequal ; radicle short 

 incumbent.. — Glabrous pubescent or villose trees ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; folioles large, 2-co -jugate glabrous ; flowers * in 

 axillary simple or composite ramified racemes. {Trap. West Africa}) 



11. Heterodendron Desf.^ — Flowers regular apetalous (nearly 

 of Nephelium) hermaphrodite or polygamous ; calyx short cupular 

 unequaUy-crenate or lobate persistent. Discus short annular. 

 Stamens 5-15, more or less interior to disk ; filament hypogynous 

 short; anthers erect introrse, 2-rimose, exserted. Germen central, 

 2-4:-locular ; style very short ; apex obtuse 2-4-lobed stigmati- 

 ferous ; ovules in cells 1, ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior, 

 sometimes minutely obturated. Fruit dry, indehiscent ; 2-dymous 

 or 3-4-lobed, coriaceous ; seed suberect arillate ; cotyledons of exal- 



> Small, " Greenish." Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 431.— Waip. Sep. v. 371 ; 



2 Spec. 1, 2. MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 552. Ann. i. 134 ; ii. 224. 



3 Seslcr. 242.— Endl. 0en. n. 6638 ^— B. H. 6 j|fe-,„_ j(f„,_ iy_ g^ t_ 3.— DC. Prodr. ii. 92.— 

 Oen. 405, n. 45. — Prostea Cambess. MSm. Mus. K. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 366. — Endl. Gm. n. 

 xviii. 25, t. 1 0. 6966 (Connaraeeie .»).— B. H. Gen. 407, 1000, 



* Glotose, rather large. n. 68. 



5 Spec. 5, 6. Hook. p. Niger. 260.— Bakek, 



