490 XLir. SAPiNDACE^. [Allophylns. 



(4) A. villosus Radlk. I.e. 228. 



Shrub 3 to 6 ft. tall. Stem, petioles and back of leaves villous- 

 tomentose. Leaves trifoliate elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, edge 

 denticulate narrowed to base, 3-5 to 4-5 in. long, i to 2 in. across; 

 petioles 3 in. long; petiolules -i in. long. Racemes simple 2 to 

 3 in. long tomentose. Flowers hardly -i in. long. Hah. Dense 

 jungle. Bindings, Lumut. Perak, Telor Pinang. Penang Hill at 

 1200 ft., altitude (Curtis). Dislrib. India. 



(5) A. scandens Ridl. Jonrn. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 26. 

 Woody climbing shrub. Branches thickly lenticellate brown. 



Leaves trifoliate; leaflets coriaceous glabrous entire obovate, 

 narrowed to base, apex short blunt acuminate; nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; petiolules '2 in. long ; petioles 

 1*75 in. long. Inflorescence of 2 racemes (rarely i or 3) pubescent 

 widely divaricate i to 1-5 in. long, on a peduncle i to 1-5 in. long. 

 Flowers crowded rather small on slender pedicels. Bracts minute. 

 Sepals glabrous sub-orbicular. Petals shorter. Hah. In wet forest 

 climbing on trees. Singapore, Bukit Panjang (Ridley). Dislrib. 

 Borneo. 



3. SAPINDUS, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate pinnate coriaceous ; leaflets numerous. 

 Panicles terminal. Sepals 5 oblong round unequal. Petals 4 

 oblong concave tomentose outside, scale large obovate villous 

 crested. Disc semilunar wider on one side. Stamens 8 at base 

 of ovary; filaments villous. Ovary 3-lobed; ovules solitary. 

 Fruit I- to 3-COCCOUS, 2 lobes smaller fleshy. Seed globose. Species 

 about 20, tropics. 



(i) S. rarak DC. Prodr. i. 608; Bl. Rumphia iii. 93, /. 197. 

 Dittelasma rarak Hook. fil. Gen. PI. i. 396 ; King, I.e. 424. 



Tree 50 to 60 ft. tall. Leaves 10 to 18 in. long ; leaflets 6 to 

 12 pairs, oblong-lanceolate acute, base cuneate, glabrous, 3 to 4 in. 

 long, 75 to 1-5 in. wide; petiolules hardly -i in. long. Panicle 

 many-branched, many-flowered, 5 to 6 in. long and 4 to 8 in. wide 

 pubescent. Flowers '2 in. across yellow or white, yellow-pubescent. 

 Fruit sub-globose or twin 75 in. long. Hah. Malacca (Griffith and 

 Maingay), perhaps planted. Distrih. Burma, Cochin-China, Java. 



4. CURTISINA, Ridl. 



Tree. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 9 in distant pairs, cori- 

 aceous elliptic-oblong, bases broad. Panicle terminal. Flowers 

 small sessile or sub-sessile. Calyx 3-lobed. Petals coriaceous 

 oblong 3-valvate. Stamens 6 outside the disc; filaments short 

 thick; anthers longer oblong. Disc annular fleshy. Pistil sunk 

 in it but free. Ovary 2-celled; ovules i in a cell; style very 

 short conic. Stigma capitate. Fruit indehiscent bilobed 2-seeded. 

 Species i. 



