470 XXXVIII. SAPINDACEiE. 



13. HARPITLLIA, Roxb. 



Plowers regular, polygainous. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, witliout 

 any scale, but sometimes with inflected auricles at the base of the lamina. 

 Disk inconspicuous. Stamens 5 to 8. Ovary 2-cellecI, with 3 ovules in each 

 cell; style short, or elongated and spirally twisted. Capsule coriaceous, 

 somewhat compressed, with 2 turgid lobes opening loculicidally in 2 valves. 

 Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, with or without an arillus; cotyledons thick. 

 Trees. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets usually large, the primary vcuis prominent 

 imdenieath, Plowers in loose terminal little-branched panicles, sometimes 

 reduced to simple racemes. Capsules usually large, red or orange- coloured. 



Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, there or two or three others, natives of 

 troijical Asia or 3Iada(;;ascar. 



Calyx persistent. Petals not auricnlate. 



Petiole winged. Leaflets coarsely toothed . < ., 1. ^. alaia. 



Petiole not winged. Leaflets entire. 



Leaflets coriaceous, very obtuse 2. -ff- HiUii. 



Leaflets membranous, shortly acuminate 3. H. Leichhardtti, 



Calyx deciduous. Petals with inflected auricles , 4- H.pendaia. 



1. H. alata, F, Muell Fragm, ii. 103. A tall tree, the young branches 

 and panicles minutely tomentosCj otherwise glabrous. Leaflets usually 

 6 to 10, oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, acutely acuminate and coarsely 

 toothed, almost lobed, 3 to 6 in. loni>:, or more in the lan>-e leaves of barren 

 shoots, rather rigid, gi'een and much veined on both sides, the common petiole 

 broadly -winged. Panicles short, loose. Flowers few, larger than in the 

 other species, on short pedicels. Sepals persistent, about 3 lines long, shortly 

 tomentose. Petals about 4 Knes long, oblong-cuneate, narrowed at the base, 

 and not auricled. Stamens 7 or 8, about as long as the sepals in the males, 

 shorter in the females. Capsule 1 to 1^ in. broad, coriaceous, nearly gla- 

 brous inside. Seeds enveloped in a yellowish arillus. 



K. S. Wales. Clarence river, Bechler ; Eichmond river, C. Moore. 



2. H, Hillii, F. MuelL in Trans. Vict. List. iii. 26, and Fragn. ii. 

 104, A tree of 60 to 80 ft., the young branches and inflorescence rusty 

 with a close tomentum, otherwise glabrous. Leaflets usually 5 to 11, broadly- 

 oblong or oval-oblong, very obtuse, 3 to 5 in. long, or more in the large 

 leaves of barren shoots, thinly coriaceous, shining, the common petiole 

 not winged. Panicles loose, little branched, shorter than the leaves. Pedi- 

 cels 2 to 3 lines long. Sepals persistent, broadly ovate, 2 to 3 lines long. 

 Petals oblong, 3 to 4 hnes long, without auricles. Male flowers not seen. 

 Stamens in the females 5 or 6, with very short filaments and acute anthers, 

 probably imperfect. Capsule 1^^ In. broad, slightly tomentose outside, the 

 tur^-id lobes hirsute inside. Seeds in the vouna* state showing no arillus, 

 but, according to Bcckler, of an orange-yellow when ripe and enclosed m a 

 rich red membrane. 



Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill; Moreton Bay, W.IIill ; Mackenzie river, Leich- 

 Jiardt. 



IVales 



Moo. 



Leichhardtii. Z Muell, Herh. Youns: shoots and inflorescence 



