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Oyar?/ hairy, subsessile, 3-celled, entire : ovules solitary ; style obsolete ; 

 stigma blunt.— DiSTRiB. A monotypic genus peculiar by tlie cup-shaped 



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1. S. ramiflorum, Hiern; leaflets 9 oblong obtuse or subacuminate 

 coriaceous glabrescent base somewhat narrowed shortly petioluled, panicles 

 from the old wood shurt, pedicels equalling or rather exceedmg tne^ 

 flowers. — Sapindacea, GriJ/'. Journ, 83. "a 



BiRMA ; billy woods in the Hookhoom valley, Griffith {Kew distrib, 985)_. ^ . « . 



Branches reddmh. Leaves 1 ft., pallid in the dry state; petioles 2 in. ; le^«w 

 . shining above, 4-8 by 14-2J in. ; petiolules j in., puberulent ; lateral veins a^ou\^*^ ^^ 

 each side of midrib, alternate. Panicles 2^-3 in. diam. Flowers ^ in. wide, snoruj 

 pubescent. PeiaZs flesh-coloured, . :. ' 



^8. CUPANIA, Plum. 

 Trees or tall shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate in most cases abruptly 



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pinnatej leaflets entire, subcoriaceous. Panicles axillary and ^"'^^^™ jg^^ 



Flowers nearly regular, polygamo-dioecious.^ ^ j ^^o liws 

 or sepals 5-4, roundish, concave, nearly valvate or i»"bricated in 2 ro • 



Dracteoled. 



Petals 5-4 or obsolete, with or without 1-2 bilobed or entire scales at oase 

 inside. Disk regular or unequally thickened, annular, glabrous, nes > 

 Stamens 7-10, rarely fewer, inserted within the disk, included or m"j^ 

 usually exserted. Ovary ovoid obovoid or obcordate, ^-^-celled, n 

 or less pubescent ; ovules solitary. Fruit capsular, usually wcuuu 

 obcordate or pyriforra, 2-4-lobed or -sided and -ceUed ; l^^es connate ^^ 

 almost free and divaricate, sometimes compressed. Heeds subgioo" ^^ 

 oblong, more or less covered with an aril, exalbuminous. ^^ff^ ^,4 of 

 curved.— DisTEiB, A rather large tropical genus of both WorlOs, 

 theni are endemic in Australia and only 1 in tropical Africa 



Sect. I. Fruit widely obcordate or 2-3-lobed. 



* Sepals 5. Lateral veins 0/ leaflets arching, not parallel. ■ _^_ 





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looseiy out prominently reticulated base cuneate oblique, pa^"*^'" r ggpals 

 or racemes simple, flowers pentamerous, petals shorter than tn« ^gg, 

 squaraate. Sapindus squamosus, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 88 ; Ft. ma. ^ 

 WaU. Cat. 8097, Connaraceae ?, WaU. Cut. 8550. " =-,%j^). 



Pegu and Martaban. Penaxg, O. Porter.— Distrib. Malay Archipelago I ^^j 

 A tree of 25-30 ft. Leaves abruptly pinnate, shortly petioled, quite gia" ^^^ 

 shmins ; leaflets 4-7 in. Flowers white ; i)edicel8 yV in. Outer sepals nr i»: , 

 51 in , glabrous outside, densely white-cottony inside. Ovary tawnyhairy. 



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 2. C. pallldula, Iliem ; young parts tawny-pubescent, ra^his ^y^j^g 



not winged, leaflets 6-8 alternate or subopposite elliptic- or ovai^ ^^^^^ 

 thinly coriaceous pallid inconspicuously veined base oWiq"e 

 flowers pentamerous, sepals much imbricated, petals with a .w»6 

 "-lale on each side of base, ( ' .....•..- 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. - . , tnin - 



% A small tree. Branchltts terete, clothed with a very 8^°"^^^ *°™^°,n,id at ^ 

 fr^-12 m. ; leaflets 2-5 by |-2 in., acuminate ; petiolules very short i« ^^^^ j 

 J< lowers 1 m. wi^. ii Anthers small, glabrous, exserted. Capsule 4 » ;'. 159, fro" 

 wide, nearly glabrate.— NearTy related to G. regularis, Biume Bumi-n- • j^^, p^iogj 

 bumatra an4 Borneo; but differs from it by generally smaller leaves ana a v 



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