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Otophora.] XLiv/sAPiNDACEiE. (W. p. Hiern.) 681 



pressed. Stiffma sessile broadly trisulcate. Fruit whitish, glabrous, subdobose. tri- 

 gonous, 3-celled, 1 4 in. diam. /S'eec?^ arillate. ' 





11. SCKXiSZCKZIRA, WiUd 



Trees. Z^at-e^ alternate, exstipulate, pinnate; leaflets opposite (or alternate) 

 A^ ^"tire, repand-wavy or slightly serrate, with' subparallel lateral veins 

 and delicate inconspicuous reticulation. Panicles or racemes simple, 

 elongated. Flowers small, fascicled, regular, polygamo-dioecious. Cahjx 

 4-6-fad, small, cup-shaped ; lobes valvate or obscurely imbricated. Petals 

 absent. Bisk complete, glabrous, wavy. Siainem 5-8, exserted, inserted 

 ■^thin the disk ; filaments more or less pubescent ; anthers small, glabrous. 

 Y^ary ovoid, 3-4-celled, narrowed into a rigid style ; stigma 3-4-cleft. 

 Ovules solitary, erect. Fruit dry crustaceo- coriaceous, indehiscent, 1-3- 

 celled. Seeds erect, enveloped in a fleshy aril ' embryo conduplicate, with 

 iJnequal connate cotyledons. — Distrib. A small genus of India, the Indian 

 Archipelago, and the Philippine Islands. 



-Beddome, in his Flora Sjlvatica Anal. Gen. p. Ixxii., speaks of a new tree found by 

 Dim on the Golcondah hills, Vizagapatam district, which (he says) will probably turn 

 o^t to be a species oi Schleichera; it is a middle-sized tree, all the joung parts and 

 the inflorescence pubesccnt-tomentose, leaves alternate abruptly or unequally pinnate, 

 o-jlO inches long, leaflets 2-3 pair with or without a terminal odd one, ovatw or oblong 

 ^ith a longish acumiiiation subentire or distantly and rather inconspicuously serrate, 

 quite glabrous In age except the costa, 3-4 inches long by 1-1^ broad, petiolules ^4 in. 

 Jone;, racemes axillary panicled. The flower-buds on the specimen in the Kew Her- 

 ^num are 80 young that their structure cannot he determined j indeed the Natural 

 ^rder to which the plant ought to be relerred is uncertain. It is different from any 

 «iown Indian species of Sajnndacece^ 



1. S. trijug^a, WiUd, Sp. PL iv. 1096 ; leaflets 4-8 opposite elliptic or 

 ^Ihptic-oblong obtuse or shortly acuminate entire at length coriaceous 

 glabrescent or subvelutinous flat base rounded or obtuse sessile or sub- 

 sessile, fruit ellipsoidal glabrous apiculate smooth or spinous. Grah. Cat. 

 ^mb. PI, 29 ; Dalz. S Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 35 ; Thwaites Enum. bS ; Bedd. Ft. 

 W t. 119; Brandis FL Sylv. 105, t. 20; Rooi^. Fl. Ind. ii 277 ; Roth. 

 •^oi?. Sp. 385; W. dc A. Prodr. 114, not of Moritzi. S. pubescens, 

 ^^^h. Ic. Melicocca trijuga, Juss, in Mem, Mas. Par. iii 187, t. 8 ; 

 ^C. Prodr, i. 615; Wall Cat. 8080. Scytalia trijuga, Eoxb, ex DC Ic. 

 ^tadmannia trijuga, Spreng. Syst. ii. 242. St. pubescens, Spreng. I.e. 

 J^iissambiuni spinosura, Ilamilt. in Tram. Werner. Soc. v, 356. C. gla- 

 ^um, Ilamilt. l.c, C. pubescens, UamiLt. Ic. 357. Conghas zeylonensis, 

 ^0, Madr. ex Wall. Ic. M. pubescens, DC. l.c—Rumph. Ilerh. Awhoin. u 

 ^57; Wall Gat. SVOQ. 



^Dry forests, from the N.W. Hivtalaya at Slrmor; throughout Central an^ 

 Southern India, Birma, and Ceylon. —Distr/b. Java, Timor. 



.' A large tree, leafing and flowering early in the spring. Leaves panpinnate, 8-16 

 ^^•; leaflets 1-10 by §-4^ in. ; the lowest pairs the smallest. Racemes axillary, often 

 ^^veral on short branchlets, 2-4 In. Flotvers yellowisli or green. Frtiit |-1 in. long, 

 r^l he pulpy subacid aril is edible ; the bark is astringent, and, according to Dr. Koi- 

 °^rgh, the natives rub it up with oil and use it to cure the itch. The timber is good. 



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