420 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Seeds in cells 1, 2, globose; testa cmstaceous, often shortly arillate 

 at base ; cotyledons of exalbuioinous embryo large transversely con- 

 duplicate. — Herbs frutescent at base; branches slender abundant 

 scandent sulcate ; leaves alternate j 2-ternate or decomposite ; leaflets 

 crenate or serrate, sometimes pellucidly punctate or lineate ; flowers 

 in axillary sometimes corymbiform cymiferous racemes ; peduncle 

 naked at base, 2-cirrose ; pedicels articulate. {All tropical regions}) 



59. Koelreuteria Laxm.^ — Flowers polygamous irregular ; sepals 

 5, valvate. Petals 3, 4, alternate, unequal, unguiculate, furnished 

 within with a small 2-partite scale. Stamens 5-8, interior to irre- 

 gular 3, 4-lobed disk oblique among them ; filaments free declinate, 

 villose or glandulose; anthers iatrorse. Germen 3-locular; style 

 stigmatose at apex subintregal or 3-fid ; ovules in cell 2 ; one descen- 

 dent ; raphe dorsal ; the other ascendent ; raphe ventral. Fruit cap- 

 sular inflated submembranaceo-vesicular venose, loculicidaUy 3-locu- 

 lar, at base and apex 1-locular ; septa seminiferous within. Seeds 

 subglobose exariUate; testa crustaceous (blackish); cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo spirally convolute. — A tree often small; leaves 

 alternate imparipionate ; leaflets opposite and alternate membranous 

 dentate; flowers^ in full terminal ramosely cymiferous racemes. 

 [Northern China}') 



60. Stocksia Benth.^ — Flowers irregular polygamo-dioecious ; 

 sepals 5, concave, glandulose at margin, imbricate. Petals 4, short 

 unequal, villose within, glandulose at margins, imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 7, 8, interior to unequal oblique tomentose disk; filaments vil- 

 lose at base ; anthers oblong exserted introrse, versatile. Germen 

 3-quetrous ; style incurved, stigmatiferous at apex simple acute ; 

 ovules in cell 2, subcoUateral. Fruit . . . ? — A ramose rigid shrub ; 



' Spec, atout 12, of -wMoli 3 are old-world. Cambess. Mem. Mm. xviu. 33, t. i. fig. C. 



H. B, K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. y. 99, t. 439.— A. 8. Spach, Suit. & Bufon, iii. 66.— Endl. Oen. n. 



H. m. Bras. Mer. i. 349, t. 73.— Wall. PL As. 6622.— Payer, Orgcmog. 155, t. 33.— Ag. Theor. 



JJ«r-. i. 1. 14.— Benth. jSwZpA. 5o<. t. 6.— Wight. Syst. t. 29.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 318.— 



Icon. t. 608. — Bl. Bumphia, iii. 183. — Gtiuseb. B. H. Gen. 396, n. 16. 



Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 122.— Benth. Fl. Hongk. 46 ; 3 Yellow, showy. 



Fl. Austral, i. 463.— Thw. Fmtm. PI. Zeyl. 54. < Spec. 1, often eidtivated. K. panacuUta 



—Boies. Fl. Or. i. 945.— Te. et Pl. Ann. So. Laxm. loc. c«.— Duham. Arbr. ii. nouv. t. 36. 



Na.1:. s&. 4, xviii. 343.— Habv. and Sonb. Fl. — Bl. Sumphia, iii. 181.— Boi. Eeg. iv. t. 330.— 



oap. i. 237.— Bak. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. ill. ~Bot. K. paullimoides 'Lssr. Sert. 18, t. 19.—Sapindus 



Mag. t. 1049.— W ALP. Sep. i. 411 ; ii. 813; v. chinensis L. fil. Suppl. 228. 



368 ; Ann. i. 207 ; vii. 620. « Sook. Kew Journ. v. 304.— B. H. Qen. 397, 



^ Nov. Comm. Petrop. xvi. 561, t. 18 (not n. 16. 

 Hedw. nor. Mure.). — DC. Prodr. i. 616. — 



