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axillary, not terminal as is usual in the genus: perhaps it may belong to 
Cupania. 
384. (5) S. rubiginosus (Roxb.:) young branches, petioles, nerves of the 
leaflets and panicles, clothed with a dense rusty pubescence : leaves abruptly 
pinnate ; petioles simple, terete; leaflets 4-6 pair, oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minated, quite entire, slightly hairy on the under side: racemes in terminal 
panicles: calyx unequal, 5-partite: petals 4 (the fifth deficient), glabrous, 
with a distinct unguis: limb cordate-oblong: scale attached to the petals by - 
the margin, very woolly, with a woolly eristate appendage at its back (be- 
tween the scale and the limb of the petal) below the apex and overtopping 
the scale: disk imperfect, unilateral: stamens 8, on one side, woolly: ovary 
excentrie, very deeply 3-lobed, hairy: style longish: fruit of 1-2, rarely 3, 
oblong, nearly unconnected, berries.—Rowb. Cor. 1. t. 62 ; fl. Ind. 2. p. 282; 
DC. prod. 1. p. 608 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 251; Wight! cat. n. 367.—Jack in Mal. 
misc. 1. p. 11; in Hook. bot. mise. 1. p. 280.—S. fraxinifolius, DC. L. e.—8. 
alternifolius and longifolius, Herb. Ham.!—Moulinsia rubiginosa, G. Don.— 
M. eupanioides, Camb. in mem. mus. 18. p. 40. t. 2. 
One of Hamilton's specimens is from Gongachora, the other from Ranja- 
matty on the eastern frontiers of Bengal. Jack found it also at Pulo-pinang. 
Roxburgh is not correct as to the shape of the petals. The structure of the 
scale is obviously thus alluded to by Jack, “ appendages furnished with two 
transverse lines of white hairs." Cambessedes’ figure is good, but he incor- 
rectly describes the fruit as a loculicidal capsule. 
385. (6) S.? microcarpus (W. & A.:) petiole simple, terete, and the nerves 
of the leaflets beneath clothed with rusty pubescence: leaves unequally pin- 
nate!: leaflets about 5 pair, nearly opposite, petioled, ovate-oblong, much 
and finely acuminated, quite entire; upper side glabrous and shining, under 
dull and reticulated with veins: panicles axillary, large, much branched, 
covered with a rusty pubescence: calyx 5-partite, segments (in fruit) une- 
qual (small): drupes constantly solitary, with the mark of another (or two?) 
abortive at the base; epicarp thin fleshy ; nut very hard and bony: style 
persistent, spinuliform, at the base of the drupe: embryo sharply bent at the 
Junction of the cotyledons and radicle ; cotyledons linear, curved round the 
acutely bent radicle.— Wight! cat. n. 554. 
This has considerably the habit of a Terebinthaceous plant, particularly of 
Rumphius’ small-fruited species of Canarium, but we have placed it in the 
present order from the structure of the fruit, which is obviously the result of 
a 2- or 3-celled ovary. The seed is solitary and erect: there is no albumen: 
the long radicle is bent up close on and applied to the back of the cotyledons, 
and then the whole embryo (cotyledons and radiele) is curved round the 
seed ; so that the extremity of the radicle, of the cotyledons, and the point 
of junction of the cotyledons and radicle, are all close to each other, and 
point to the hilum. The fruit is'about the size of a small pea. — Erioglossum 
of Blume has also the leaves unequally pinnate; and S. squamosus, Roxb., 
has them so occasionally. 
IV. CUPANIA. Plum. 
Calyx 5-cleft or 5-parted. Petals 5, each usually furnished with a scale 
above the base, rarely 1 or all of them wanting. Torus a disk occupying 
the bottom of the calyx, entire or crenulated. Stamens 10, or fewer by 
abortion, inserted between the margin of the disk and the ovary. Ovarium 
3-celled, with one erect ovule in each cell. Style simple or trifid. Capsule 
2-3-angled, 2-3-celled, 2-3-valved, loculicide. Seeds erect, arillate.— Trees - : 
or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnated, or simple from abortion. Flowers 
whitish, in racemose panicles, or racemes. i: ; 
