Schmidelia
(named after C. C. Schmidel, 1718-1792, Professor of Botany at Erlangen). SYNS. Allophyllus, Aporetica, Ornitrophe. ORD. Sapindaceae. A large genus (about eighty species) of stove, erect or suberect shrubs or small trees, mostly tropical American; several are found in tropical and South Africa, tropical Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Australia. Flowers small or minute, globose, in simple or loosely-panicled, axillary racemes; sepals and petals four, the latter rarely absent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, one to three (rarely five) foliolate; leaflets usually ample, entire or serrated, membranous, often dotted or lined. A few of the species have been introduced, but they are probably lost to cultivation.