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RAGAL SPECIES OF THE SAPINDACEAE. 
By KE. P. PHILLIPS, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S., Botanist in Charge of the 
National Herbarium, Pretoria.’ 
DurRinG a short stay in Durban in January, 1919, I saw for the first time, in their native 
state, species of Sapindaceae growing in the Stellabush. This led me to make an 
examination of the material in the Natal Herbarium, and at the same time I took the 
opportunity of describing the species. To make the records more complete than it was 
possible to do from the material in the Natal Herbarium alone, all the Natal specimens 
in the Bolus Herbarium and Cape Government Herbarium at Capetown and the National 
Herbarium, Pretoria, were examined. This has added Saree erably to the Natal localities 
in which the species occur. 
Twelve genera of the order Sapindaceae have been EE from South Africa, and 
of these nine occur in Natal. Wood, in his “ Handbook to the Natal Flora ”' (1907), cites 
sixteen Natal species, but he eventually dropped Schmidelia natalensis in his “ Revised 
List of the Natal Flora.” Of the fifteen species mentioned by Wood, only ten are repre- 
sented in the Natal Herbarium, and of those unrepresented I have not seen specimens 
from Natal in any other herbarium. 
The examination of the material has brought to light an undescribed Bersama which 
occurs in Natal, and I am of opinion that Bersama tysoniana also occurs there, though 
I have seen no Natal specimen. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
peamens_eecentric. | Bruit bladdery. “A twiner..... oe fs. de eee eg Cardiospermum. 
Stamens not eccentric. Fruit membranous, fleshy, coriaceous, or winged. 
Trees or shrubs. 
Whole plant densely villous with stellate hairs; leaflets deeply 
EEN TA GN N EE ER lor ane Melaamthus. 
Plants most glabrous; leaves or leaflets never deeply incised. 
Leaves broadly ovate, palmately lobed; flowers scarlet....... Greyia. 
Leaves or leaflets lanceolate or elliptic : flowers greenish or 
whitish. : 
Leaves simple. 
ruit ilmost slobose, coraceouss.’....:... 5.0. Ee Allophylus. 
Fruit flattened with membranous wings............. Dodonaea. 
Leaves compound. 
Leaflets unequal-sided ; rachis with broad or narrow 
wings. 
Young branches, leaf rachis, and inflorescence 
derel) LOMeNLOSEN... 5 sar ye eet. i eo Hippobromus. 
Eli elsbrous vor almost so... 5% ER Pteroxylon. 
Leaflets not unequal-sided ; rachis not winged, or only 
winged in the uppermost segment. 
Leaves trifoliate ; sepals glabrous, pedicels 1 mm. 
| pitt Ma, a ai CSIR hes EA 0 er Allophylus. 
Leaves pinnate, if trifoliate then pedicels 1 em. long; 
sepals hairy. 
Inflorescence a panicle up to 43 cm. long.... Sapindus. 
Inflorescence a raceme up to 17 cm. long..... Bersama. 
