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mid-rib above and beneath, coarsely serrate usually on the convex side, sometimes entire, 
with the mid-rib prominent beneath. Inflorescence an axillary raceme shorter than the 
leaves, sometimes grouped into a dense terminal panicle. Pedicels 2 mm. long, terete, 
densely tomentose. Sepals unequal, 2-5-3 mm. long, 1-75-2-5 mm. broad, elliptic or 
subrotund, densely tomentose without, ciliated. Petals 3 mm. long, 2-5 mm. broad, 
obovate, glabrous. Disc annular. Filaments 2-5-5 mm. long, linear, glabrous, tapering 
gradually from the base upwards; anthers 1-5 mm. long, elliptic, in outline. Ovary 
rudimentary, tomentose. Fruit 0-7 mm. long, 1 cm. in diameter, three-celled with a 
single seed in each cell, pilose. Seeds 5 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter, almost globose, 
somewhat flattened or channelled on the inner face, glabrous. Sonder in Harv. and Sond. 
Fl. Cap. 1, 241. Sim, Forest and Forest Flora, 172, Pl. XXXIV. 
Natal : Stellabush, Durban, September, Van der Byl in Natal Herb., 16243, 16244 ; 
without precise locality or collector in Natal Govt. Herb., 93; Verulam, Wood, 606. 
Distripution : Port Elizabeth, Kentani, Somerset East, Uitenhage, Albany, Stocken- 
stroom. 
PTAEROXYLON, EK. & Z. 
P. utile K. & Z. 
Branches glabrous, youngest with greyish bark, turning dark brown in older branches. 
Leaves petioled, pinnately compound, 6-7-jugate, 3-12 cm. long; petiole 1-2-5 cm. long, 
minutely pubescent, furrowed above; leaflets 1-3 cm. long, 0-5-1-5 cm. broad, oblong, 
obtuse or retuse at the apex, sometimes shortly mucronate, unequal at the base, entire, 
with the mid-rib prominent above and beneath and the lateral veins distinct, glabrous. 
Inflorescence racemose, massed at the ends of the branches, about 3 cm. long. Pedunele 
pubescent. Flowers often in three-flowered cymes on the raceme. Pedicels 4 mm. long, 
pubescent, articulated at the base. Bracts 2 mm. long, lanceolate-linear. Calyx 1-5 mm. 
long, ovate, subobtuse, pubescent. Petals 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous. Filaments 3 mm. long, linear, gradually narrowing from the base upwards ; 
anthers 1:5 mm. long, elliptic in outline, flattened, cordate at the base. In female flowers: 
Ovary 1-5 mm. long, 1-5 mm. broad, almost circular in outline, somewhat flattened, 
pubescent. Style 1 mm. long, terete, pubescent ; stigma bilobed. discoid. Fruit 1-3 em. 
long, oblong in outline, somewhat compressed, dehiscing into two valves; valves deeply 
keeled, glabrous. 
No specimen from Natal seen. 
DISTRIBUTION : Uitenhage, Somerset East, Komgha. 
SAPINDUS, LINN. 
S. oblongifolius Sond. 
Shrub or small tree 6-10 ft. high (ex Wood). Branches minutely pubescent. Leaves 
petioled, paripinnate, 4-11-jugate, 18-26 cm. long; petiole 5-11 em. long, terete, glabrous 
or sparsely pilose ; leaflets subsessile, 3-5-12-5 cm. long, 1-5-4 cm. broad, lanceolate, 
rarely elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, with the mid-rib prominent beneath, entire. Inflorescence 
a panicle up to 43 cm. long. Peduncle pubescent, the main axis of the panicle and branches 
densely tomentose. Pedicels 3 mm. long, terete, densely tomentose. Calyx 6 mm. long, 
4 mm. broad, elliptic in outline, deeply concave, densely tomentose without, long-ciliated. 
Petals 6 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, spathulate, densely ciliated, with a flat claw appendage 
1 mm. long and 2-25 mm. broad and densely ciliate arising from the inner face. Fala- 
ments 2-5 mm. long, linear, long-ciliated ; anthers 1-5 mm. long, oblong. Dzse deeply 
saucer-shaped with a rim 1-5 mm. high, thin, more or less triangular in outline with 
rounded angles. Ovary 3 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, sub-apocarpus, three-locular 
with a single ovule in each loculus, densely pilose. In male flowers the filaments are 
slightly longer and the ovary rudimentary, otherwise similar to the perfect flowers. 
Wood, Natal Plants Pl. 89. Sim, Forests and Forest Flora, 173, Pl. XXXV. Sond. m 
Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. I, 240. 
