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SAPINDACEiE. 
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pinnate leaves and inconspicuous panicled flowers. Distrib. Species 
80. Many Australian ; a few extending round the world in the 
tropics. 
1. D. viscosa, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 617. A small shrub, with 
glabrous viscose leaves and triquetrous branchlets. Leaves nearly 
sessile, fragrant, simple, oblanceolate, firm, entire, obtuse or acute, 2-4 
in. long. Flowers in small dense terminal panicles ; pedicels \ in. long. 
Sepals thin, green, T V in. long. Valves of capsule 2-3, | in. broad, 
samara-like, rounded at the base and apex, with a wing encircling the 
outside of the cell. D. salicifolia and microcarpa, DC. loc. cit. 
Mauritius, in woods of the Pouce, Piton de Riviere Noire, etc. Rodriguez, 
common on hill-slopes, Balfour ! All round the world in the tropics. Bois de 
Reinette. 
Order XXXI. ANACARDXACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx 3-5-fid ; 
sepals free. Petals the same number as the sepals, small, obtuse. 
Disk usually annular. Stamens twice as many as the petals, in 
Sclerocarya indefinite ; filaments free, subulate, inserted on or outside 
the disk ; anthers minute, round, 2-celled, slitting down the side. 
Ovary free, placed inside the disk, 1- or several-celled ; ovules solitary ; 
styles present or absent, stigmas as many as the cells. Fruit fleshy, 
with a bony endocarp. Seed with albumen 0 or thin. — Trees with 
alternate exstipulate imparipinnate or simple leaves, juice often 
glutinous, and small flowers in axillary racemes or panicles. Distrib. 
Cosmopolitan. 
Fruit 1 -celled. Leaves entire 1 . Campnosperma. 
Fruit with several cells. Leaves imparipinnate. 
Stamens 8-10. Styles joined above 2. Spondias. 
Stamens 12-18. Styles free from the base 3. Sclerocarya. 
1. CAMPNOSPERMA, Thwaites. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx persistent, 3-5-lobed ; 
lobes ovate-deltoid. Petals 3-6, round, slightly longer than the 
calyx. Disk prominent, cup-shaped. Stamens 6-L0, inserted outside 
the disk ; filaments filiform ; anthers round, minute. Ovary immersed 
in the disk, 1-celled, t with one pendulous ovule ; style 0 ; stigma 
peltate. Fruit a fleshy drupe, with a bony endocarp. — Trees, with entire 
leaves, and minute flowers in axillary panicles. Distrib. Species 6, 4 
Indian, 1 Madagascar. 
1. C. seychellarum, March. Bev. Anac. 173. A tree 30 feet high, 
with thick straight branches. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, oblong, 
subobtuse, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, petioled, 4-6 in. long, cuneate 
at the base, with crowded anastomosing veins raised on the under 
surface. Flowers minute, in dense nearly sessile panicles shorter than 
the leaves ; bracts minute, deltoid ; pedicels very short. Flower T V 
in. broad when expanded. Sepals and petals 3 each. Stamens rather 
exserted. Drupe purple, the size of a small cherry. 
