. The natural history of plants. Botany. SAPINDAOE^. ' 351 placing in a different genus to Stadmama, the fruit is formed of one to three berries also opening longitudinally, but they are loaded with tubercles or prickles and the seed is only incompletely surrounded by the aril. The Spanogheas, Asiatic species, can no longer be separated generically from Nephelium. The fruit, more or less deeply lobate, is indehiscent or opens cross ways or obliquely at maturity. The aril only partially envelopes the seed, and the embryo is bent. Pometia also constitutes accord- ing to us a section of the same
. The natural history of plants. Botany. SAPINDAOE^. ' 351 placing in a different genus to Stadmama, the fruit is formed of one to three berries also opening longitudinally, but they are loaded with tubercles or prickles and the seed is only incompletely surrounded by the aril. The Spanogheas, Asiatic species, can no longer be separated generically from Nephelium. The fruit, more or less deeply lobate, is indehiscent or opens cross ways or obliquely at maturity. The aril only partially envelopes the seed, and the embryo is bent. Pometia also constitutes accord- ing to us a section of the same »'"'"' ^^"^"""'^ "'^'"''â genus. The flowers have from four to eight stamens and a fruit whqse seed, surrounded by a mu- cous aril, contains a condupli- cate embryo. Like all the species ^'^- '''â «-^ '^- l^[ Z^T^l of Nephelium which have been enumerated, these trees from India and the isles of the Pacific Ocean have^compound-pinnate leaves, whose inferior folioles are but little de- veloped, orbicular, stipuliform. In the Pappceas, on the contrary, plants from the Cape of Good Hope, whose flowers are also those of Nephelium J and which we also include in that genus, the leaves are simple, and the seeds loosely surrounded by an aril (flg. 359, 360) have a conduplicate or convoluted embryo. Zerospermum, a tree from the Indian Archipelago, may be defined as a Nephelium with tetramerous flowers, thick and developed stigma, and fruits whose tubercular berries contain an exarillate seed. In Deinbollia, consisting of trees, often hairy, from tropical "Western Africa, the flowers, constructed like those of Euphoria, with large imbricate sepals, have expanded petals, lined inwardly by scale or bunch of hairs, and usually from twelve to twenty-five stamens. The 1-3-lobate fruit, the seed and the aril are those of Nephelium. Podonephelium, a tree from Oceania, is an apetalous Nephelium whose carpels are borne at the summit of a long an
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