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THE COLONY OP VICTORIA. 
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about one-half or one-third of its length into 3 rarely 2 exceedingly narrow bluntish stigmatose lobes, which 
are upwards slightly dilated. Capsule about 1J line long, glabrous. Valves 3 rarely 2, parchmentous, 
linear-lanceolate, bearing the placental ridge along their middle. Funicles setaceous, brown, crowded in the 
lower part of each valve, erect, slightly twisted, nearly half or one-third as long as the capsule. Seeds 
narrow-ellipsoid, brown or livid, smooth, about J line long, with a longitudinal furrow. Cotyledons plane- 
convex, elliptical, about three times as long as the very short cylindrical radicle. 
From near the locality where Labillardiere collected his F. tetrapetala a plant occurs in our collection, 
bearing great resemblance to it in figure, and producing promiscuously flowers with 4 and 5 petals and 
sepals, but a 2- or 3-cleft style. Neither the coalescence of the sepals is, however, at least during the 
anthesis, as imperfect as described and illustrated in Labill. Nov. Holl. Plant. Specim. i. 88, t. 114, nor 
even the style undivided. It seems doubtful whether these notes, pointed out by Labillardiere, were not 
accidental or based on imperfect observation. South African specimens of F. lee vis, communicated by Sonder, 
agree sufficiently with certain forms of the Australian plant. It is not within the scope of this work to settle 
the synonymy of this genus ; yet the author’s persuasion may be expressed, that many of the described 
Frankenice are referable to F. Ice vis. 
IV.— SAPINDINiE. 
Mowers often insymmetrical. Stamens definite, very rarely indefinite. Ovary 
compound. Ovules frequently anatropal. Placentae axil. Seeds exalbuminous, defi¬ 
nite, seldom albuminous or indefinite. Embryo rarely straight. 
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Order SAPINDACEiE, 
Juss . Gen . 246. 
Mowers insymmetrical. Sepals generally 5, free or all or only partially connate, 
imbricate in aestivation. Petals free, kypogynons, often inserted on a kypogynous 
disk, alternate with tke petals, imbricate in praofiorescence, not rarely all or one 
wanting. Stamens generally double, sometimes equal, very rarely fourfold in number 
to tke petals or seldom indefinite, free or connate at tke base. Antkers introrse, two- 
celled, bursting longitudinally. Styles 1 or more and coherent into one. Stigmas 
1-4, rarely more. Ovary 2-4- rarely 5-7-celled. Ovules anatropal, generally 1, less 
frequently 2 or 3, rarely several in eack cell. Cells of tke capsule bursting with 
loculicidal or septicidal dehiscence, or separating into more or less free bivalvate 
or indekiscent carpels. Albumen none. Embryo curved , plicate , coiled or spiral, 
rarely straight. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely suffruticose or herbaceous plants, sometknes climbing 
and provided witk tendrils, numerous within or near tke tropics, also rather copiously 
dispersed through extratropical Australia, represented almost exclusively by iEsculese 
and Hippocastanese in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. Leaves simple 
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