Mculus.] XLiv. SAPiXDACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) 675 



6. SSCnZiVS. Liun. 



Trees and shrubs with scaly buds. Leaves opposite, digitate, deciduous, 

 exstipulate ; leaflets obovate or oblong, serrate. Panides terminal, thyrsoid. 

 Flowers large, polygamous, irregular. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5- cleft 

 or -dentate, deciduous, with unequal imbricated lobes, Ptiah 4-5, unequal, 

 clawed, without scales, imbricated, exceeding the calyx. Disk annular or 

 unilateral, lobed or entire. Stamens 5-8, usually 7, inserted within the 

 disk, free. Ovary sessile, 3-celled. Style elongated, slender; stigma 

 simple- Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary, superposea Fruit capsular, 

 1-3-celled; valves loculicidal, coriaceous ; cells l-seeded. Seeds snhgiohosef 

 exalbuminous, with a broad hilum; testa coriaceous j cotyledons thick, 

 corrugated, conferruminated.— Distrib. About 14 species, natives mostly 

 of the temperate parts of Asia and America. 



-^. HippocQstanum. Linn., is said to be indigenous in North India, but it is not 

 now known in the wild state. See Boiss. FL Orient, i. 497. 



1. H;. (Pa via) indica, Colehr. in Wall. 6V. 1188; leaflets usually 7 

 acuminate delicately serrate submembranous distinctly petioluled, panicles 

 oblong nearly equalling or exceeding the leaves, flowers secund Camh. in 

 Jacq, Voy. Bot. 31, t. 35 ; BoL Mag. t. 6117; Brajul. For. FL 103, t. 19; 

 Royte III. 135 ; Stew. Punjab PL 31. 



Westerx Himalaya, alt. 4-10,000 ft. from the Indus to Nipal. — Distkib. Affgha- 

 nistan. 



A fine tree of 60-70 ft. in height and 10-15 in girth, with glabrous terete branches. 

 Leaves glabrous ; leaflets unequal, the terminal one 5-9 by l^-S in., the lateral ones 

 smaller; common petiole 3-6 in., thickened at the base, Bulcate above; petiolules 

 [^nging to I in. CaJyx tubular, J in. bmg, frequently splitting as the flowers open; 

 lobes short, rounded. Petals 4, white with red and jellow, the place of the fifth- vacant 

 ^<xp%uLe ovoid or subpyriforra, reddish-brown, without spines, rather rough, 1-2 in. long. 

 fecfo dark. — The interior of the seeds is eaten in tne Himalayas, according to I>r, 

 ^ojle, in time of famine ; cattle habitually eat them. The bark peels ofl*in long strips ; 

 the wood is light-coloured and easily worked. The fruit is oflicinal, being applied ex- 

 ternally for rheumatism. The leaves are lopped for winter fodder in the Himalaya. 



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2, a:. (Pavia) punduana. Wall. Cat 11 R9; leaflets 6-7 acuminate 



delicately serrate subcoriaceous shortly petioled, panicles narrowly lan- 

 ceolate nearly equalling the leaves, lower pedicels longer. JE. asamicus, 

 ^'^/. Journ. 69, 75, 80, 122, P. khassyana, Voigt Ilort. Sab. Calc. 97. 



Tropical Sjkkim Himalaya, /. D. E. Khasu Mts., ascending to 4000 ft. Assam 

 *^d BiRMA. — DisTRiB. Siam. 



A tree with glabrous terete branches. Leaves glabrous ; leaflets unequal, the ter- 

 jninal one 8-15 by 2\-b in., the lateral ones smaller; common petiole 7^-12 in. ; petio- 

 '°'e \-\ in. Calux tubular, \ in.; lobes short, rounded at apex. Ptiok 4, white and 



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7. SCYFHOFSTAZiUM, Hiem. 



.A small tree. Leaves alternate exstipulate unequally pinnate; leaf- 

 J^ts opposite. Flower's panicled, regular, hermaphrodite, 4-6-nierou8. 

 X^yx deeply lobed, hemispherical ; lobes ovate, somewhat imbricated in 

 ^Y bud. Petals shorter than the calyx, without scales, very shortly 

 clawed, each forming a wide short turbinate somewhat compressed cup, 

 SHrous outside, hirsute inside. Stamens 7-^, inserted within the short 

 ''^^^ ' ' ' ^ "isk, scarcely ex^ertcd, glabrous; filaments subulate- 



thA anPT • anthers aturt. 2-celled, fixed by the base. 



**«ear, curved near 



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