Cossignya.] 
SAPINDACE.E. 
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large as a cherry. Seeds round, black, axile. Wall. Cat. 8484. C. bor- 
bonica, DC. Prod. i. 614. C. ternata, Lam. ioc. cit. B-uizia aurea, 
Sort. 
Mauritius, common on the Pouce range, and at Trou-aux-Cerfs. Also Bourbon, 
teste DC. Bois de Judas. 
* Sapindus emarginatus , Yabl ; DC. Prod. i. 607, a native ol Tro- 
pical Asia, is planted in Mauritius, and naturalised on the seashore of 
Rodriguez, near Mathurin, Bouton ! Balfour ! It is a tree with large 
alternate petioled imparipinnate leaves, 5-7 short-petiole d coriaceous 
oblong obtuse or emarginate entire leaflets 2-4 in. long, small flowers 
in ample terminal deltoid panicles, 5 oblong silky much imbricated 
coriaceous sepals, 5 villose narrow petals, 8 villose exserted sta- 
mens, a densely hairy 3-lobed 3-celled ovary, with a short entire 
style, and 1-3 large fleshy saponiferous carpels. Bois Savon. 
Savonnier. 
5. HORNEA, Baker. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals 5, round, much imbricated, silky on the 
back, naked on the face, the two outer smallest. Petals 5, just like 
the inner sepals in shape and vestiture, but with a densely pilose emar- 
ginate scale at the claw. Disk cup-shaped, irregularly lobed, enclosing 
the stamens and ovary. Stamens 20-24, inserted inside the disk, 
glabrous; filaments short, filiform; anthers minute, oblong. Ovary 
sessile, densely pilose, 2-celled, with a single ovule in each cell from the 
axis below the middle ; style short, simple, pilose ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit a 2-lobed velvety samara, with a broad wing. Seed globose, 
black. Endemic and monotvpic. 
1. H. mauritiana, BaJcer. A shrub or tree, with branchlets 
clothed with brownish silky hairs. Leaves short-petioled, equally 
pinnate ; leaflets 4, sessile, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, coriaceous, 
venulose, 2-4 in. long, oblique at the base. Flowers in axillary and 
terminal panicles with silky ascending branches ; pedicels very short. 
Petals and inner sepals J in. long. Lobes of samara rhomboid, erecto- 
patent, an inch long, above Jin. broad, brown-velvety, rigidly coriaceous, 
the wing as broad as the cell. Thouinia ? Mauritiana, Bojer , Sort. 
Maur. 56 ( name only). 
Mauritius, in the forests of Flacq, near Pierre-font, Bojer ! Endemic. Arbre a 
Vhuile. 
6. STADTMANNIA, Lam. 
Flowers regular, polygamous. Calyx a deep cup, with 5 obscure 
deltoid teeth. Petals 0. Disk thick, elevated, lobed. Stamens 8, 
