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682 XLiY. SAPi.\^DACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) [Glennlea^ • 



ll GXiENMXBA, Hook. £ 



A large glabrous much branched leafy tree. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 

 1-2-jugate ; leaflets opposite, entire or wavy-repand, coriaceous. Flowers 

 in spicate racemes forming a terminal panicle, regular, polygamous. Calp , 

 6-lobed, valvate. Petals minute, broader than long, sliortly clawed, confcave, 

 hairy. Stamens 8; filaments short, subulate; anthers short. i^i^A; com- 

 plete, ^ide, fleshy, glabrous, and lobed. Ovary 3-sided, ovoid, contracted 

 at the base, puberulent, 3-celled, narrowed into a very short style ; stignia 

 shortly 3-lobed. Ovules solitary. Fruit depresso-globose, indehiscent, 

 fleshy, obscurely lobed. SeMs subglobose, exalbuminous, exarillate, 



L G. [zeylanica, Hook / in Benth, & Hooh Gen. PI i. 404 [ex • 



Thwaites Fnum. 408) ; leaflets elliptic or oblong shining both ends obtuse, 

 inflorescence shortly pubescent. JBedd. FL Sylv. t. 153. ' ;' '^ 



Ceflon, ascending to 3-4000 ft. 

 Leaves 4-7 in. ; leaflets 1| 

 lobes ovate, subacute. Fri 



Vae. 1, leaflets 2. Sapindus unijuga, Thwaites^ I.e. 56. . * „!« 



Vak. 2, leaflets 2-4. Nepheliura fuscatum, Thwaites, I.e. 58 ; Euphoria luscaiJi, 



Benth & Hook.f. Gen, PL I 406. S. Gleniei, Thwaites, Ic. 408. 



13. SAPINDUS. Plum. 



iooo ft, , , . ;. „ . 



^-5 by i-2i ;n. ; petiolules tumid, J-J in. Calyx i in. diam., 

 'lit. |-1| in. diam.— Dr. 'J'hwaites I.e. gives two vanelies.- 



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Trees or shrobs. Leaves alternate or subverticillate (and th^n simpH 

 exstipulate, usually paripinnate ; leaflets coriaceous, commonly eni"_^ 

 Tnflurescence terminal or axillary. Flowers polygamous, regular. ^fP^j^, 

 widely imbricated in 2 rows. FeUds 4-5, with or without scales. j{<^ '-^^ 

 plete, annular, fleshy. Stamens usually 8-10, inserted within the disit ; 

 ments usually pilose ; anthers versatile. Ovary entire or 2-4-lobed, 2-4-ce" 

 Sti/le terminal; stigma 2-4-lobed. Ovules solitary. ^^^^^^ ^^%^%^\Jti a 

 ceous, 1-2-coccous; cocci oblong or globose, indehiscent.* ^^1"^._t)i^ 

 crustaceous or membranous testa ; cotyledons thick ; radicle short. 

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Ovary hairy. 

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ly oeneata pubescent with short curvea or sbenai.^ Tals mem- 

 inflorescence terminal panicled pubescent, scale of ^'^^ ^^\Znr\(o]i»y 



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W.&A.Prodr 111; Grah Cat. Bomb. PL 29; Bedd , 



Ixxui. ; Brand. For. Fl. 106; Wall. Cat. 8038 {not of Balb. ^^^ ^- tiuata, 



Road), ex W. Ai A 1 r • T^ t\aRK. „^# ^^ ur^n nnt «n.qfi. S. emarg*^ p, 



8yh. t. 154; Brand. I.e. 107; mym lu. w oi , frt«... -— ^ . 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 35. S. abstergens, Boxb. Ic. t. 1235.- Bheedetiori. 



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Common about villages in South India; cultivated in Bengal, where it is a 

 native. , . ^ ; :\ ..'.^igg abort- 



handsome tree, ieaijes 5-12 in. ; leaflets H-8 by 1-4 in-; F" narrower 

 ' -I. in. lopg, wMtt^ hairy. I'iSepais 5, elliptic/ 



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