SAPINDACEJE. 399 



imbricated or subvalvate. Petals equal in number to sepals 

 (or 0), lined with, scales or hairs, more rarely naked, imbricated. 

 Stamens (sterile in female flower) 8 (or more rarely 5-7, or 9-12, 

 interior to complete annular, entire or crenate, glabrous or pilose 

 disk ; filaments short, rather longer or much elongate- exser ted ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen central (rudimentary in male 

 flower) often substipitate ; style terminal, divided at apex into short 

 stigmatiferous lobes or teeth equal in number to cells ; ceUs in germen 

 3, more rarely 2 or 4; ovule in each 1, ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Capsule subsessile or stipitate, obovate, obcordate or 2-4- 

 agonal, 2-4-lobed, sometimes coriaceous or subfleshy ; lobes connate 

 or subfree, divaricate or cymbiform, loculicidal or more rarely solute 

 from axis, glabrous or sometimes setose within. Seeds suberect ; testa 

 coriaceous, glabrous, more or less highly arillate at base, sometimes 

 more rarely naked ; cotyledons of exalburainous embryo thick fleshy, 

 plano-convex straight or curved ; radicle short incurved. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipinnate ; folioles (usually 

 entire) alternate or opposite ; flowers in subsimple or more or less 

 (sometimes much) ramified compound-cymiferous racemes. [All hot 

 regions}) 



14. Eriocoelum Hook, jvts? — Flowers polygamous-dioecious re- 

 gular, 5-merous ; sepals 5, valvate. Petals 0, or 6, alternate small, 

 dilated within in scales sometimes subpeltate ciliate larger than limb. 

 Disk annular duplex, outwardly 8-10-crenate ; interior plate longer 

 than exterior, enlarged inside with 8-10 radiant ribs. Stamens 8-10 

 interior to disk ; filaments far exserted ; anthers small, introrsely 2- 

 rimose. Germen in male flower rudimentary central strigose-pilose. 

 Female flower. . . ? " Capsule coriaceous hispid, loculicidal 3-valved ; 

 cells inwardly lanuginous, 1-spermous." — Strigose trees ; leaves al- 

 ternate abruptly pinnate; folioles 2-4 -jugate subopposite entire; 

 flowers in axillary simple or ramified glomeruliferous racemes. 

 [Trop. West. Africa?) 



' Spec, atout 80. H.B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. Afr. i. 425, 426 {mighia).—'H.. Bisr. Adansonia, 



V.124.— A.S.H. 2??. .Bras, ifen i. 385, t. 79.— A. xi. 246.— Panoh. & Seb. Bois. N.-CaUd. 230 



Rich. <M>. t. 31, 32 (iJa<o«i«).— Labill. Sert. t. (part.). — Walp. Mep. i. 418 ; ii. 815 ; v. 363 ; 



73.— Gbiseb. M. Brit. W.-Ind. 126; Cat. Fl. Ann. ii. 214; iv. 379 (part.); vii. 625, 627 



Cub. iS — Tr. et Pl. Ann. So. Nat. eer. 4, xviii. [flatonid). 



373.— BL.iJ«?»pAw,iii. 357.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 2 gr^. 400, n. 26. 



i. p. ii. 586 ; Suppl. i. 509.— Benth. Fl. Am- a Spec. 2. Bakek, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 427. 

 tral. i. 457, 460 , (JSaJomia).- Bakeb, Fl, Trop. 



