673 XLiv. SAriNDACEiE. (W. p. Hiem.) 



polygamo-monoecious. Sepah quincuncial, oblong, rounded at apex, rather 

 unequal. Petals 4, erect, oblong, concave, tomentose outside, tbe place of 

 the fifth vacant ; scale as large as the petal, obovate-oblong, densely shaggy- 

 crested incurved and cohering at apex, inserted near the base of the petal 

 and closely applied to its lamina. Disk semilunate-annular, much wider 

 towards one side, glabrous. Stamens 8, inserted around the base of the 

 ovary, equal ; filaments shaggy, slender at the tip ; anthers small, shortly 

 exserted. Ovary ovoid-globose, glabrous, 3-lobed, 3-celled, contracted at 

 the apex into short erect style, stigma shortly 3-lobed ; ovules solitary in 

 the cells of the ovary. Fruit 1-3-coccous, 2 segments usually smaller or 

 obsolete, subglobose, rather fleshy, indehiscent. Seed globose, exarOlate, ex- 

 albuminous ; testa very thick, bony, embryo curved, cotyledons large 

 unequal incurved ; radicle short, incumbent. — Distrib. A monotypic genus. 



1. D. Rarak, Book. /. in Benth. ^ Hook. f. Gen. PI. i 396 ; leaflets 

 14-26 usually lanceolate-acuminate delicately veined base oblique shortly 

 petioluled, inflorescence erect ovoid-pyramidal shorter than or about 

 equalling the leaves. Sapindus Karak, DG. Prodr. i. 608; Blume Rumph. iii. 

 93, 1. 167. \ S. pinnatus, Mill. Gard. Did. No. 3. S. saponaria, Lmir. Fk 

 Cochinch. 238 (not of Linn) — Rumph. Herb. Amhoin. ii. 134. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. (Ceylon, introdaced.) — ^Dibteib. Cochin-china, Java, 

 Seychelles (introduced). 



Trunk rising 50-60 ft., terete, covered with a glabrous tenacious smooth bark. 

 Leaves ranging up to IJ ft., pari- or imparipinnate ; petiole not winged; leaflets 2-4^ 

 by i-l^ in., glabrous. Panicle 6-14 in., tawny-velvety. Flowers ^ in., tomentose, 

 white or pale. Fruit ^-Im. 



4. ERIOeXiOSSTTDC, Blume. 



Erect trees or shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate, exstipulate, alternate. 

 Leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire. Panicles terminal, erect, bearing 

 the white irregular polygamo-dioecious flowers on elongated branches. 

 Sepals 5, unequal, orbicular, concave, broadly imbricated, the two outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, unequal, obovate, clawed, the place of the 6th 

 vacant, scale hairy, hooded, with an apical lobed appendage. Disk one- 

 sided, lobed. Stamens 8, more or less turned to one side, rather unequal ; 

 filaments hairy. Ovary stipitate, obcordate, 3-lobed, 3-ceUed ; style 

 slender, stigma obscurely 3-loDed; ovules solitary in the cells of the ovary. 

 Fruit 1-3-lobed to the base ; segments oblong, indehiscent, diverging. 

 Seeds oblong, exarUlate, exalbuminous, testa membranous ; embryo 

 straight ; cotyledons thick. — Distecb. Species 2, one of which is at present 

 known to occur only in Henegambia. 



For the morphology of the flower in this genus, see Griffith Notid. iv. 549. 



1. E. edule, Blume Bijdr. 229 ; Rumphia iii. 119, t. 166 ; leaflets 8-12 

 elliptic- or ovate-oblong often acuminate shortly pubescent at least on the 

 veins beneath, base usually oblique obtuse shortly petioluled, flowers 

 crowded. Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 454. E. rubiginosum. Brand. For. Fl. 108. 

 Moulinsia cupanioides, Camhess in Mem. Mus. Par. xviii. 27, 40, t. 2. 

 Sapindus rubiginosa, Roxh. Cor. PI. i. 44, t. 62 ; Fl. Ind. iL 282 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 112 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 29 ; Wall. Cat. 8041 ; Griff. Notvl. iv. 

 848 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Siijipl. 14; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixxiii. 

 B. fraxinifolius, DC. Prodr. i. eOB. S. edulis, Blume Cat. Buitem. 64. M. 

 rubiginosa, G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 667. S. altemifoltus and longifolins. Herb. 

 Hamilt. exW.de A. I.e.; Wall. Cat. 8041 D, 8046. S. pinnatus, Roxb. Ic. 89. 



