SAPINDAQE^. 403 



22 ? Glenniea Hook, f.^ — Flowers regular (nearly of Nephe- 

 polygamous; receptacle rather flat. Calyx gamopliyllous, 

 deeply 5 -lobed, yalvate, Petals 5, alternate, mucli shorter sub-B- 

 angular shortly unguiculate wider than long rather thick oiliate. 

 Stamens 8 (sterile in female flower) ; filaments short interior to disk ; 

 anthers introrse shoi-t, 2-dymous, 2-rimose. Germen 3-agonal, attenu- 

 ated to shortly conical style ; apex decurrent-3-lobed stigmatiferous ; 

 ovule in incomplete cells 1, suberect; micropyle extrorsely inferior. 

 Pruit subglobose thickly fleshy obscurely lobed, 1-3-locular, 1-3-sper- 

 mous; seeds smooth exarillate; embryo...? — A large tree; leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate ; folioles 1-2-jugate ovate-oblong ; flowers ^ 

 in simple or scantily ramified shortly cymiferous racemes terminal 

 or oppositifolious. {Zeylania?) 



23. Schleichera "W.* — Flowers regular (nearly of Nephelium) 

 polygamo-dioecious apetalous ; calyx small, 4-6-fid, subvalvate or 

 slightly imbricate. Stamens 4-8, interior to regular disk ; anthers 

 short introrse. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 3-4-locular ; 

 cells sometimes incomplete ; style long conical, stigmatiferous revo- 

 lute-3-4-lobed at apex. Ovules subbasilar; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit ovoid dry ; pericarp subcrustaceous glabrous or here 

 and there spinose ; cells 1 , 2, 1-spermous. Seed and aril oi Nephelium 

 (or Euphoria) ; cotyledons of exalbuminous conduplicate embryo 

 unequal. — Trees ; leaves alternate pari- or imparipinnate ; folioles 

 subopposite; flower in slender simple or ramified cymiferous 

 racemes ; pedicels slender.^ {^Trop. Asia.^) 



24, Melicocca L.^ — Flowers regular (nearly of Schleichera or 

 Nephelium) ; sepals 4, 5, wider membranous, much imbricated. 

 Petals 4, 5, alternate membranous esquamate, much imbricated. 



» Qen. 404, n. 42. ^ Spec. 1 or 2. J. in MSm. Mm. iii. 187, t. 5 



2 Small, pubescent. {Melicocca). — DC. Trodr. i. 615 {Melicocca). — 



' Spec. 1. G. zeylamica Hook. p. — Sapindus DO. Prodr. i. 615 {Melicocca sect. Sphcerocoeca). 



unijugus Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 56. — S. Glenniei — MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl, i. 199. — Thw. 



Thw. loc. cit. (Gen. vix serrandum.) Enwn. PI. Zeyl. 58. — Walp. Bep. v. 366 ; Ann. 



* Spec. Plant, iv. 1096.— Endl. Gen. u. 5621. ii. 222. 



— Bl. Sumphia iii. 147. — B. H. Gen. 404, n. ' Gen.n. 47. — J. Gen. 248; M^m. Mus, iii. 



il.—Koon G^BTN. Fruet. ii. 486, t. 180.— (1817), 187 (part.) t. 4.— DC. Prodr. i. 615, 



CussamUum Eumph. Serb. Amboin. i. t. 67. sect. 1 {Oooocca). — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 65. 



' A genus except for nonlobed fruit (a — Cambess. M4m. Mus. xviii. 32 (part.). — 



character it would seem of little importance Bndl. Qen. n. 5620. — B. H. Qen. 401, n. 32. — 



here) scarcely distinct from Nephelium. Caaimiria Scop. Introd. u. 1026. 



