676 XLiv. SAPiNDACE^. (W. P. Hiern.) [Scyphypetalum. 



Ovary hairy, subsessile, 3-celled, entire; ovules solitary; style obsolete; 

 stigma blunt.— DiSTEiB. A monotypic genus peculiar by tie cup-shaped 

 petals. 



1, S. ramlflorum, Hiern ; leaflets 9 oblong obtuse or subacuminate 

 coriaceous gla"brescent base somewhat narrowed shortly petioluled, panicles 

 from the old wood short, pedicels equalling or rather exceeding the 

 flowers. — Sapindacea, Griff. Joum. 83. 



BiKMA ; hilly woods in the Hookhoom valley, Griffith {Kew distrib. 985). 



Branches reddish. Leaves 1 ft., pallid in the dry state ;- petioles 2 m. ; leaflets 

 shining above, 4-8 by li-2J in. ; petiolules 4 in., pnberulent; lateral veins about 16 on 

 eaxjh side of midrib, alternate. Panicles 2^-3 in. diam. FUrwers i in. wide, shortly 

 pubescent. Petals flesh-coloured. 



8. CVFAMIA, Flum. 



Trees or tall shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate in most cases abruptly 

 pinnate ; leaflets entire, subcoriaceous. Panicles axillary and subterminal, 

 bracteoled. Flowers nearly regular, polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 5-4-cleft 

 Or sepals 5-4, roundish, concave, nearly valvate or imbricated in 2 rows. 

 Petals 5-4 or obsolete, with or without 1-2 bUobed or entire scales at base 

 inside. Bisk regular or unequally thickened, annular, glabrous, fleshy. 

 Stamens 7-10, rarely fewer, inserted within the disk, included or more 

 usually exserted. Ovary ovoid obovoid or obcordate, 2-4-ceUed, rnore 

 or less pubescent ; ovules solitary. Fruit capsular, usually loculicidal 

 obcordate or pyriform, 2-4-lobed or -sided and -celled ; lobes connate or 

 Almost free and divaricate, sometimes compressed. Seeds subglobose or 

 oblong, more or less covered with an aril, exalbuminous. Embryo thick, 

 curved. — Distsib. A rather large tropical genus of both Worlds; 14 of 

 tiiem are endemic in Australia and only 1 in tropical Africa. 



Sect. L Fruit widely obcordate or 2-3-lobed. 



* Sepals 5. Laterai veins of leaflets arching, not paraUd. 



1. C. g'labrata, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Peng. xli. ii. 303 (1872); 

 glabrescent leaflets 4-8 lanceolate or ovate-oblong acuminate subcoriaceous 

 laosely but prominently reticulated base cuneate oblique, panicles racemose 

 or racemes simple, flowers pentamerous, petals shorter than the sepals 

 squamate. Sapindus squamosus, £oai. Sort. Peng. 88 ; Fl. Ind. u. 282 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8097. Gonnaraceae % Wall. Gat. 8550. 



Pegu and Maktaean. Penans, O. Porter. — Dibtkjb. Malay Archipelago {Boscb.). . 



A tree of 25-30 ft. Leaves abruptly pinnate, shortly petioled, quite glabrous and 

 shining ; leaflete 4-7 in. Flowers white ; pedicels ^V ™- Outer sepals ^ in. Petab 

 ^ in., glabrous outsidej densely white-cottony inside. Ovary tawny-hairy. 



2. C> pallldula, Hiern ; young parts tawny-pubescent, rachis of leaves 

 not winged, leaflets 6-8 alternate or subopposite elliptic- or ovate-oblong 

 thinly coriaceous pallid inconspicuously veined base oblique cuneate, 

 flowers pentamerous, sepals much imbricated, petals with a large hairy 

 scale on each side of base, capsule 2-3-lobed stipitate. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay, 



A small tree. PrancKlets terete, clothed with a very short tomentnm. Leaves 

 6-12 in. ; leaflets 2-5 by |-2 in., acuminate ; petiolules very short, tumid at base. 

 Phwers | in. wide. Arithers sinall, glabrous, exserted. Capsule 4 in., lobes | in. 

 wide, nearly glabrate. — Nearly related to C. regularis, Blume Rumjih. iii. 159, irom 

 Sumatra and Borneo; bat differs from it by generally smaller leaves and a paler oolooi 



