90 SAPINDACE.^. 



TURPINIA. F.B.i. 44 xxiil. 



Glabrous trees with shining odd-pinnate leaves and 

 panicles of small regular five-merous flowers, character- 

 ised and distinguished from the rest of the family by the 

 cup-shaped crenulate five-partite disc inside the ring of 

 five stamens ; by the arrangement of the seeds in more 

 than one row in each cell of the ovary ; and by the 

 very hard seed coat and straight embryo. 



Species lo, widely distributed over the northern tropics of 

 Asia and America, but not known south of the Line nor in 

 Africa. 



Named in honour of M. Turpin^ a French botanical artist and 

 naturalist. 



TurpinJa pomifcra De Candolle ; F.B.I. i 698, XXIII 

 I ; a shola tree withpinnately compound opposite leaves, 

 and axillary panicles of small white flowers and small 

 berries marked at the top with three fine lines and 

 containing a few very hard and smooth round seeds. 



Twigs round, smooth. Leaves opposite, the pair join- 

 ed by a line above their insertion : leaflets three or five, 

 occasionally seven, the lateral paired, their stalks about 

 Ji inch, the terminal stalk much longer all with a pair 

 of minute stipels; more or less crenate-serrate, coriace- 

 ous, glabrous, usually somewhat drooping and folded 

 upwards along the midrib. Branches of the panicle 

 opposite, and repeatedly branched, with small bracts. 

 Sepals five. Petals five, with scarious margins. Stamens, 

 with thin filaments broader at the base, and ovate 

 acute anthers. Ovary three-lobed with three, easily separ- 

 able, styles. Ovules more or less erect ventral raphe, or 

 hanging with dorsal. Fruit a small berry, nearly round 

 but showing at the top the three cells. Seeds two or 

 three only, smooth and with very hard seed-coat* 

 Embryo straight with minute radicle and large round 



