SAPINDAOE^. 409 



indehiscent, 1-3-locular ; seed in cell oftener 1, exarillate ; cotyledons 

 of fleshy exalbumiuous embryo thick more or less curved or condu- 

 plicate; radicle short ascendent. — Small trees ; twigs tomentellose 

 (fulvous) ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipinnate ; folioles sub- 

 opposite entire or dentate ; flowers in short much ramified cymiferous 

 axillary and terminal racemes. {South Africa and east. trop. islands}) 

 35? Pseudopteris H. Bn. — Flowers 1-sexual regular; male 

 calyx 5-partite (coloured), valvate or subimbricate. Petals 5, alternate 

 much shorter, cucuUate, induplioate- valvate ; each enclosing in its 

 cavity a small obtuse interior basilar glandule. Stamens 6, interior 

 to glands and alternating with them ; filaments free, exserted, inserted 

 below small central rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers ovate introrse 

 (coloured), 2-rimose. Eemale flower...? — A small tree (not ramified 

 or scarcely so) glabrous ; leaves collected at apex alternate, very 

 abruptly or paripinnate ; folioles 20-26-jugate, opposite or alternate, 

 imequaUy -trapezoid acute entire, sinuate or serrate reticulate- veined ; 

 male flowers in simple elongated racemes (springing from the 

 wood) alternately cymiferous, small crowded, thinly pedicellate.^ 

 {Madagascar?) 



36 ? Averrhoidium H. Bn. — Flowers polygamo - dioecious 

 regular apetalous (nearly of Hippohromus) ; sepals 5, unequal, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 8, interior to regular lobed disk ; filaments free ; 

 anthers short (effete in female flower). Germen in female flower 

 central, 3-locular ; style simple reclinate, stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 ovules in cells 2, inserted at middle of internal angle ; one ascendent, 

 the other descendent. Fruit...? — A tree ; leaves alternate collected 

 at summit of twigs, abruptly pinnate ; leaves 2-4-jugate unequal, 

 serrate above ; flowers in short scanty cymiferous racemes terminal 

 or axillary to upper leaves.* [Brazil?) 



37 ? Filicium Thw.® — Flowers regular polygamous; sepals 5, im- 



1 Spec. 2, of which one is irom Madagascar. 243. 



Pom. Si/ppl. iii. 224 (Melicoccd). — Joss. Mem. * A genus imperfectly known, allied in some 



Mus. iii. 178, t. 7 {Melicoccaj, — DC. Prodr. i. respects to Svppohrormis and Melioocca in 



615, n. 5 {Meli(!oeea).—i!sx!S-B. M. Cap. 268 others to Vodonma 



(iJA««). — Speeng. Syst. Suppl. 18 (Wein- ^ Spec. 1. A. Qardmrianum H. Bn. Adan- 



mannia) — Hakt. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 241. sonia, xi. 244. 



2 A genus, from its female flowers being un- * Enum. PI. Zeyl. 408 {Burserea). — B. H. 

 known, of yery douhtful ~place, allied ap- Gen. 325, n. 11.— March. ^<?a««on«a, viii. 40 

 parently to Filicmm and Sippobromus (and {Anaoard.). — Pteridojihijllum Thw. Hook. Kew 

 perhaps to Maopheraonia p). Journ. vi. 65, t. 1 (not Sieb. et Zucc). 



Spec. 1. P. deeipiens H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 



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