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Sapindus. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 283 
‘Teling. Ishee-rashee. __ 
A large timber tree, a native of the mountainous parts 
of the Circars. It flowers about the beginning of the hot 
season. 
Trunk perfectly erect, of considerable length and 
thickness. Branches numerous, ascending. Branchlets 
clothed with ferruginous pubescence. Leaves alternate, 
abruptly pinnate, about afoot long. Leaflets opposite, 
from four to six pair, sublanceolar, entire, above smooth, 
downy underneath; from three to six inches long, and 
from one to two broad. Petioles round, downy, endingin a 
downy bristle. Panicles terminal, large, erect, composed 
of simple racemes. Calyx five-leaved. Petals four, placed 
on the upper side, an entirely woolly scale arises from the 
base on the inside of each. Style single, ascending, short- 
erthan the stamens, Berries three when all come to per- 
fection, which is rarely the case, singly oblong, one-celled. . 
The wood of this tree is very useful for a great variety 
of purposes ; being large, straight, strong, and durable, 
towards the centre it is chocolate-coloured. 
7. S. fruticosus. R. 
Shrubby. Leaflets from three to four pair, lanceolar, 
With an orbicular pair inserted on the base of the com- 
mon petiole, Petals with small woolly scales at the base. 
It is a native of the Moluccas, and from thence intro- 
duced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798,where - 
it blossoms in March, and the fruit ripens in May and 
June. : 
The plants are as yet (1809) but small, but with an 
erect trunk, covered with smooth ash-coloured bark. 
The branches are few, weak, and much bent, even so 
88 to be cernuus. 
Leaves abruptly pinnate, about a foot long. Leaflets 
three or four pair, generally alternate, subsessile, lance- _ 
lar, entire, of a firm texture, and smooth on both sides; _ 
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