SAPINDAOE^. ■423 



subulate ; leaflets opposite and alternate multijugous oblique obtusely- 

 serrate coriaceous ; flowers ^ in terminal composite (" tbyrsoid '') 

 very ramose cymes.^ {New Caledonia?) 



65. ITngnadia Endl*. — Flowers irregular, polygamous ; sepals 5, 

 imbricate, oftener subequal. Petals 4, 5, unguiculate, imbricate ; 

 limb fornislied within at base with, cristate-lobate scale. Stamens 

 7-10 ; filaments subcentric free declinate, interior to 1 -lateral oblique 

 disk ; anthers introrse (in female flower effete). Germen stipitate, 

 3-locular ; style subulate, 3-sulcate, apex stigmatose simple ; ovules 

 in cell 2, inserted at middle of internal angle ascendent ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior.^ Capsule stipitate coriaceous obpyramidally 

 3-gonal, style apiculate, loculicidally 3-valvate ; seeds globose ex- 

 arillate ; hUum broad ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy 

 plano-convex conferruminate. — Small trees ; leaves entire impari- 

 pinnate; leaflets serrate; flowers^ (early) in loosely compound 

 cymiferous racemes ; pedicels articulate. {Texas!') 



66. Magonia A. S. H.® — Flowers subregular polygamous, sepals 

 5, suboblique, imbricate. Petals 5, alternate esquamate elongate 

 patent, imbricate. Disk complete evolute, very irregular, in some 

 cases short annular subequally crenate granuJato-glandulous, in 

 others much more evolute much produced into 2 concentric lamellae 

 (the interior smaller). Stamens 8, interior to disk ; filaments free, 

 in male flower very long declinate, in female very short ; anthers in- 

 trorse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) ovoid, 3- 

 locular ; style curved, apex stigmatose obtusely 3-lobed ; ovules (in 

 male flower sterile very small) go, affixed in 2 series to internal 

 angle subtransverse, finally imbricate in many series. Fruit capsular 

 ligneous, globosely 3-gonal, loculicidal; valves solute from colu- 

 mella produced at base and apex to a septum ; seeds oo , ascendent com- 

 pressed imbricate, produced at margin to a chartaceous wing ; hilum 



1 Bather large open, lilac or rosy. 7 Spec. 1. X7. speeioaa Endl. loc. cit. — Waip. 



^ A genus in some cases very near to Rep. i. 423 ; v. 371. 



KaVrmteria, in others to Cossignia. * Mem. Mus. xii. 336, t. 12, 13 ; PI. Mem. Bres. 



' Spec. 1. L. coriaeeus EoOE. p. loc. cit. — 238, t. 23, 24 ; J'i. .Bros. Jfer.i. 394(notVELl.os.). 



Waip. Ann. yu. 624. Cambess. Mem Mxts. XTiii. 35. — Spach. Suit 



* Ataht. t. 36; Nov. Stirp. Bee. 75, n. 86; d .Bm/b», iii. 71.— Enm. Gen. n. 5630.— i'Aeeo- 



Gen. n. 5640. — A. Gray, Gen. 111. 209, t. 178, carpus Mart, et Zuco. Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 61 



179.— B. H. Oen. 398, n. 22. t. 37, 38. 



' Funicle thick rugose subfimbriate. ' Large thick ; valves in the dry very hard 



^ Eosy, inserted in the axils of the inferior very concave within, 

 braoteiform leaves of a younger branch. 



