Schmidelia .] 
SAPINDACE2E. 
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Flowers fascicled; pedicels as long as the calyx. Sepals obovate, 
glabrous -^V in. long. Expanded flower greenish-white, in. broad. 
Stamens much exserted. Ovary glabrous. Fruit a globose red berry, 
as large as a pea. Ornitrophe mauritiana, Bojer. Schmidelia Bojer- 
iana, Camb. ; DC. loc. cit. 
Var. integrifolia (DC. Prod. i. 610, as a species). Habit more 
arborescent, leaflets larger subentire often 4-6 inches long, racemes 
often copiouslv panicled, ovary villose. Ornitrophe integrifolia, 
TFilld. ; Lam. ill. t. 309, fig. 1. 
Mauritius, common in the woods, the type principally on the Ponce range. Sey- 
chelles, Wright ! Rodriguez, Balfour ! Also Tropical Asia. Madagascar, 
and Bourbon. Bois Merles. Bois trois feuilles. 
2. S. monophylla, Presl , Bot. Bemerk. 40. A tree 20-30 feet 
high. Leaves simple, oblong, acute, subcoriaceous, shining, entire or 
obscurely repand, 3-4 in. long, cuneate at the base ; petiole \ inch 
long. Racemes simple, dense, short peduncled, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels 
spreading, as long as the calyx. Sepals 1| in. long, glabrous, obovate. 
Petals as king as the sepals, pilose on the face and edge. Stamens 
not exserted. Ovary 2-celled, villose. Fruit globose, fleshy, the size 
of a pea. S. Dregeana, Sonder. Rhus monophylla, B. Meyer. 
Seychelles, not uncommon in the mountain woods of Mahe and Praslin, Horne ! 
Wright ! Also Natal, Madagascar, Comoros. Bois Maris , 
* Dittelasma BaraJc, Hook. fil. Gen. Plant, i. 396 (Sapindus Rarak, 
DC. Prod. i. 608), a native of Tropical Asia, has been found by Mr. 
Home in the Seychelles in several places in Mahe, but is perhaps an 
introduction. It is a tree with silky branchlets, large alternate exsti- 
pulate pinnate leaves, numerous alternate or opposite entire oblique 
acuminate lanceolate leaflets, very copious small polygamous flowers in 
ample terminal panicles, very short pedicels, 5 oblong silky imbricated 
sepals, 4 villose petals crested on the face with a large scale and a fleshy 
saponiferous fruit as large as a cherry 1-celled by abortion. 
3. CUPANXA, Linn. 
Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 5, free, oblong, much imbri- 
cated. Petals 5, oblong, pilose, without scales. Disk conspicuous, 
symmetrical. Stamens usually 8, placed inside the disk, exserted in the 
male flowers, rudimentary in the females ; filaments subulate, villose ; 
anthers round, minute. Ovary stipitate, 3-celled ; ovules solitary ; style 
short, entire. Fruit a stalked 3-celled obversely deltoid coriaceous 
capsule, dehiscing loculicidally. — Trees or shrubs, with alternate exsti- 
pulate, equally pinnate leaves, and small flowers in copious panicles. 
Distbib. Round the world in the tropics. Species 30. 
