Enofjlossum.] xLiv. sapindace^. (\V. P. Hiern.) 6/3 



SiKKiM Himalaya, Assam, Oudh, Earterx Peninsula, from Birma to Penang and 

 Malacca, Western Peuinsula horn ihe Godaverj southwards.— Distkib. Widely spread 

 over the Indian Archipelago, and N.W. coast of Australia. 



A large timber tree or shrub, with the shoots petioles and inflorescence ferruginous- 

 pubescent. ^ Leaves about 1-2 ft. ; leaflets 3-15 bj 1-3^ in. Flowers sweet-scented, 

 sHortly pedicelled in small clusters, on elongated spike-like racemes, arranged in a 

 panicle. Fmit \ in.— Wood useful, strong, and durable, chocolate coloured in the 

 centre. In Linnaeus' Herbarium this species is named Sapindiis Saponaria. 



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5. AZ.Z.OPHVX.US, Linn. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves 1- or 3-foliolate, exstipulate, leaflets entire 

 or serrate. Racemes simple or branched axillary. Flowers small, polygamo- 

 dioecious, globose, shortly pedicelled, ]vhite or yellowish. Sepals^ 4 in 

 opposite pairs, hooded, membranous, widely imbricated ; the two outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, the place of the 5th vacant, small (or obsolete), 

 sometimes declinate, naked inside or usually furnished with a shaggy scale 

 above the claw. Disk one-sided, usually with 4 glands opposite the petals. 

 Stamens 8, inserted on the receptacle inside the disk. Ovary usually 

 2-lobed and 2-celled • ovules in the cells solitary. /Vui7 indehiscent 

 usually l-:i-lobed ; looes subglobose, fleshy or dry. Seeds usually with a 

 short fleshy aril; embryo curved; cotyledons plicate. — Distrib. A large 

 chiefly tropical American genus ; about 12 species occur in tropical Africa, 

 others in South Africa, the Mascarine Islands, Madagascar, <fec., and several 

 in the Indian Archipelago, ^- ' 



Sect. I. Leaves unifoliolate. 



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!• A. zeylanicus, Linn. Rov, PL Gen. in Amoen. Acad, 

 ives unifoliolate ovate oblong or obovate more or less acumi 

 aiple or slightly branched. Schmidelia Allophylus, BC. 



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I^d. Or. t, 286. S. bidentata, Wall. Cat. 8062. Ornitrophe Allophylus, 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 1-3000 ft. Assam. Cachar. Cetlok. ^ ' 



. A shrub or small tree with terete branches. Leaves I4-I6 by \-l% in. ; petioles 4-3 

 ^- Racemes j-9 in. Flowers iV-J in. diam. Fruit globose, red.— A variable spe- 

 pies, the principal forms of which may be indicated as follows; intermediate forms exist 

 "^sotoe cases. 



"ar. 1. acuminata; g\iihro\}S, leaves quite entire ovate, racemes rather long. S. 

 ^l^minata, Thwaites Evum. 55; Bedd, Ic, PL Ind. Or. t. 287.— Cejlon. 



7ar. 2. a.<^samica; glabrous, leaven nuite entire oblong, racemes short.— Assam. _ 

 , V AR, 3- hisjnda; branches midrib and margins of leaf hispid. S. hispida, Thwaites, 



^•c-i -BeJJ. A ^yZv. t. 152.-Ceylon. . ■ - ,, , . . ,- 1 * 1 • 



VAR. 4. varians; leaves small obovate toothed widely rcpand denticulate subcona- 

 ^ous, racemes rather elonirated. . S. varians, Thwaites Enum, 408 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Jfid. 

 ^- 1. 288, 



^AR. 5. Thwaitesii; leaves' 6-10 in. obovate toothed widely rcpand denticulate or 

 '^hed subcoriaceous, .racemes short. — Ceylon. ^ ■ , , x- i x t. 



, Var. 6. grand! folia; leaves obovate toothed or widely reijand denticulate^ snbmem- 

 ^^anous. Schmidelia, sd. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. <& T.— Sikkim, Assam, Cachar. 



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2. A. Coltbe., Blum^ Rufhpk iiL 131 ; leaves tnroliolate, leaflets obovate X. 

 5^ate or lanceolate mostly acuminate hairy or glabrous subconaceou s enti re 

 Jentate or serrate, raceines simple, flowers irregular petals sometimes 

 ^eclinate. Rhus Cobbe, Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. i. 267. Omitropbe Cobbe, 



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