304 SapindacecS, \Schleichera, 



Var. /5. villosus, Hiern. Schmcdelia villosa, Wight, Thw. Enum. 

 55. Wight, Ic. t. 401 and 964 (5. Rhcedii). C. P. 3549. 



L. densely and softly velvety, with yellowish pubescence. 



The type in the low country, principally in the moist region ; very 

 common. Var. /3. also extending into the lower montane zone. Fl. 

 October; greenish. 



Also in S. India, Malaya, and Trop. Australia. 



Not very variable in Ceylon. The leaves are sometimes nearly 

 glabrous above. 



The Veddas employ the wood of this for making bows, as I am in- 

 formed by Mr. Nevill. The little pulpy fruit is eaten. The leaves, bark,, 

 and root are accounted medicinal. 



4. SCKZiEICHERA, IVilld. 



Trees; 1. pinnate; fl. small, polygamo-dicecious ; caL 

 4-6-fid ; pet. o ; disk flat, crenate at margin ; stam. 5-8^ 

 inserted within the disk ; ov. 3-celled, with i erect ovule in 

 each cell, stigma 3-lobed ; fruit dry, indehiscent, 1-2-seeded; 

 seed with a fleshy aril, embryo strongly curved, cotyledons 

 connate, unequal. — Sp. 2 ; i in FL B. Ind. 



S. trijug-a, Willd. Sp. PL iv, 1096 (1805). Kon, S. Puvu, 

 Kula, T. 



Herm. Hort. Lugd.-Bat. 536. Herm. Mus. 69. Burm. Thes. 109. Fl. 

 Zeyl. n. 603. Koon^ Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 486. Moon Cat. 74. Thw. Enum. 

 58. C. P. 1 1 55. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 681. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 119 (not good). Brandis, For. 

 Fl. t. 20. (iaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 180, f. 11 (fruit only). 



A large tree, with rather smooth grey bark and spreading 

 branches, buds pubescent ; 1. abruptly pinnate, petiole and 

 rachis 3-7 in., hard, cylindrical, pubescent, much swollen at 

 base, Iflts. 3 or 4 pair, opp. or nearly so, on very short swollen 

 stalks articulated with rachis, oblong or obovatc - oblong, 

 tapering or rounded often unequal at base, very obtuse, entire, 

 much undulated, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, with 

 lat. veins prominent, rather stiff, the lowest ones smallest ; 

 fl. pedicellate, in lax, slightly branched, spicate panicles, 

 2-6 in., from the young shoots below the new leaves ; cal.- 

 segm. acute ; stam. usually 7 ; ov. hairy, style long, stigma 

 capitate ; fr, under i in., ovoid, .sharply pointed, smooth ; seed 

 roundish-ovoid, aril pulpy, nearly covering the seed. 



Low country up to about 2000 ft.; common. Fl. March ; green. 

 Throughout Peninsular India, also in Burma, Java, and Timor. 

 The ' Ceylon Oak' of the English, the foliage in the mass, especially 

 •when young, very much resembling that of Qucrcus Robur. 

 The fruit sometimes bears sharp spines on its sides. 

 There are no specimens in Hermann's Herb., and Linna:us names the 



