SAPINDAGEJE. 401 



17. Lecaniodiscus Pl\ — Flowers polygamo-diceoious apeta- 

 lous ; lobes of saooiform gamophyllous calyx 5, subequal rotund, 

 imbricated, finally reflexed. Disk shortly cupular adnate to perianth 

 regular, obscurely 10-crenate sulcate within. Stamens 10, or more 

 rarely 9 ; filaments hypogynou sly inserted interior to disk free slender 

 far exserted ; anthers basifixed elongated (effete in female fiower 'i) 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free central sessile ovoid, 3-locular, 

 attenuated to short style, reflexed at thickly 3-lobed stigmatiferons 

 apex; ovules in cells 1, ascendent from internal angle j micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior obturated. Fruit subdrupaceous ovoid, out- 

 wardly tomentose, acute at apex; mesocarp finally dry; pulamen 

 1-spermous ; seeds suberect, enclosed in copious basilar aril ; testa 

 crustaceous nitid ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo confer- 

 ruminate. — A small tree ; twigs and petioles pubescent ; leaves 

 alternate pinnate ; folioles subopposite entire ; flowers ^ in racemes 

 simple or ramified at base. [Trop. West Africa.^) 



18 ? Jagera Bl.* — Flowers polygamous regular (nearly of Cupaniu) 

 sepals 3-5, imbricated. Petals same in number alternate, enlarged in- 

 wardly with cucullate scales. Stamens 8, interior to annular disk, 

 rather villose or pubescent. Germen turbinate 3-4-agonal, 3-4- 

 locular ; style short, stigmatiferons at apex, rather obtuse 3, 4-sul- 

 cate ; ovule ascendent {oi Cupania). " Fruit baccate hirsute; cells 

 3, 4, stupose a4; bottom, I -spermous ; seeds exarillate ; embryo 

 curved.^ " — Trees; leaflets alternate, abruptly pinnate ; leaflets serrate 

 alternate and opposite ; flowers in axillary and terminal ramified 

 compound- cymiferous racemes. [Trop. Asia, Oceania, Malacca.^) 



19 Lepisanthes Bl. '^ — Flowers regular (nearly of Cupania). 4-5- 

 merous ; sepals and petals squamiferous within imbricated ; scales 

 cucuUate or 2-lobed, sometimes furnished with 2-lobed or lacerate 

 crest {Scorodendron^). Stamens 8-10, interior to complete annular disk ; 

 anthers included or exserted. Germen central, 2-3-locular. Fruit 



' Sooh. Niger, 251.— B. H. Gen. 403, n. 33. fig. 2.— Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 284 [Sapmdus).—T>G. 



2 " Greeniali purple, odorous." Prodr. ii. 81, n. 2 {Garwga). Deless. Ic. Sd. 



' Spec. 1 vel. 2. Bakbk, Fl. Trap. Afr. 1, iii- 35, t. 57 {aaruga). 



■ 428. ? Bijdr. 238 ; Hwmphia, iii. 150 (part.)— 



" JRumphia, iii, 155.— B. H. Oen. 403, n. Oameess. Mem. Mas. xviii. 25.— Endl. Gei:. 



39. u. 5609.— B. H. ami. 403, n. 38. 



5 Other oharaoters nearly of Nephelinm. A ^ Bl. Bimiphia, iii. 149. — B. H. Gen. 403, n. 



very doubtful genus. 37. 



^ Spec. 2, 3. KuMPH. Serb. Amhoin, i. t, 63, 



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