SAPIN DACEJE. 
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together, furnished with imperfectly formed leaves, terete, puber- 
ulous. Flowers showy, yellow, crowded at the extremity of 
the peduncle, on pedicels half an inch in length. Calyx 5-fid, 
with 4 of the divisions biglandulose, and the 5th naked. Petals 
clawed. Filaments subulate. Ovary 3-gonal : styles spreading, 
expanded at the apex. 
VII. Heteropteris. 
Character the same as that of‘ Banisteria, except 
that the wing of the capsule is thickened from with- 
out, instead of from above . — De Cand. 
Name, from Wsp j in another place, and Oregon a wing. 
1. * Heteropteris csrulea. Blue-jiowered Heterop- 
teris. 
Leaves ovate acute coriaceous glaucous shortly 
petiolate, branches tuberculated, racemes axillary, 
fruit slightly velvety at the base. 
Acer scandens foliis citri, flore cseruleo spicato, Plum. Spec. 
18. ic. 14 — Banisteria cserulea, Lam. Diet. I. 367. — Cav. diss. 
IX. 421. t. 243. — Heteropteris cserulea, //. B. et Kunth, V. 
163. 
HAB. Stated to be native of this Island and of St Domingo. 
FL ? 
ORDER XLIII. SAPINDACEiE. 
Calycine sepals 4-5, either free or cohering at the 
base ; aestivation imbricated. Petals usually of the 
same number as the sepals, occasionally one less, very 
seldom none ; sometimes naked, sometimes villous or 
glandular in the middle, sometimes with an interior 
petaloid scale. Stamens double the number of the 
petals, inserted on a hypogynous glandular disk. 
Ovary subrotund. Style 1 or 3. Fruit drupaceous 
or capsular, 3-cel led, or by abortion 1- or 2-cel led. 
Seeds solitary in each cell, attached to the axis, exal- 
buminous : embryo with the radicle pointing towards 
