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6 to 8. Ovary 2-celled, stigma bifid. Fruit 2-coccous ; each coccus 

 ellipsoid, pulpy, '35 to "5 in. long, Sapindus Damira, Voigt Hort. 

 13ot. Suburb. Calc. 94 : Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 684 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora, Burma, I, 298. Scytalia Danura, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 29 ; Fl. Ind. 

 II, 274. Sc. verticillata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 29; Fl. Ind. II, 273. 

 Eniphoria verticillata, Lindl, Bot. R«g. t. 1059; Wall. Cat. 8052 A, B, C. 

 Dimocarpas verticillata, Hb. Roxb. ex Wall. I.e. A. NepJielium verticil- 

 latum, G. Don Gen. Syst. I, 670. E. Danura, Wall. Cat. 8051. Didy- 

 mococcus Danura, Blume Rumph. Ill, 103. D. verticillatus, Blume I.e. 

 Nicobar Islands ; Kui-z. — Distrib. British India. 



6. Lkpisanthes, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate, alternate ; leaflets 

 entire, subopposite. Inflorescence axillary or lateral, in paniculate 

 spikes. Flowers I'egular or irregular, polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 5-4, 

 widely imbricated in two I'ows. Petals 5-4, equal, each having at the 

 base one or two short wide inflected scales. Disc annular, regular or 

 irregular (one-sided). Stamens 8 or 10, erect, inserted within the disc. 

 Ovary sessile, 3-sided, 3-celled ; ovules solitary ; style simple ; stigma blunt 

 or trigonous. Fruit 3-celled, 3-sided, not lobed. Seeds solitary, erect, 

 exalbuminous; cotyledons very thick, unequal. — DiSTRiB. about 16 

 species, tropical Asiatic. 

 Panicles 9 to 12 in. long. 



Fruit I'5 in. in diam. ... 



Fruit '8 in, in diam, .„ 



Panicles 1 to 3 in. long. 



Leaflets 4 to 9 in. long ,„ 



Leaflets 12 to 18 in. long. 

 Fruit tomentose but not echinate 

 Fruit tomentose and echinate 



1. Lepisanthes KuNSTLERf, King n. gp. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches stout. Leaves 30 to 40 inches long, their rachises 

 glabrous : leaflets about 12, subopposite, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly cuspidate, the base rounded, both surfaces glabrous and reti- 

 culate ; main nerves 9 to 13 pairs, spreading slightly, ascending ; length 

 6 to 12 in., breadth 2*5 to 3'5 in. ; petiolules "3 to "4 in., stout. Panicles 

 slightly supra-axillary, erect, few-branched, shortly pedunculate, 9 to 

 12 in. long ; ultimate branchlets cyraoso, 3- to 5-flowered, minutely 

 tominitose. Flowers '4 in. long, globular in bud. Sepals 5, concave, 

 minutely tomentose outside. Petals 5, sericeous in the lower half exter- 

 nally, glabrous in the upper, each with an inflected glabrous bifid basal 

 scale. Stamens 8, the filaments sex'iceous. Disc semi-lunar, glabrous. 



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