Turj-inia.] 



XLIII. STAPH YLEACEiE , 



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Order XLIII. STAPHYLEACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, compound. Flowers small 

 white regular panicled. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 5 outside 

 the flat or ring-like disc. Ovary 2- to 3-lobed; styles 3, free or 

 connate. Fruit a drupe or berry 3-celled. Seeds few or many. 

 Genera 22, species 5, Europe, N. America, Asia. 



1. TURPINIA, Vent. 



Glabrous trees. Leaves pinnate 3- to 5-foliate sub -coriaceous 

 opposite. Panicles axillary, and falsely terminal, lax of small white 



Fig. 50. — Turpinia trifoliata. 



flowers bisexual. Calyx 5-lobed imbricate. Petals 5 imbricate. 

 Stamens 5 insert outside the lobed disc. Ovary sessile 3-lobed, 

 3-celled; styles 3 free or not. Fruit sub-globose green fleshy, 

 3-celled. Styles 2 or 3 distinct at tip. Species about 12, India 

 and Malaya and America. 



Leaflets 3. 



Flowers -3 in. across in a short panicle 2 to 3 in. long , (i) T. trifoliata 



Leaflets 5. 



Flowers -15 in. across in lax panicle 8 in. long . ' . (^) T. latifolia 

 Flowers 'i in. across, panicle; 15 in. long very lax . (3) T. laxiflora 



(i) T. trifoliata Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 82, p. 178. 

 Tree. Leaflets 3 distant elliptic blunt or cuspidate acuminate 

 crenulate or blunt serrate sub-equal, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide ; central 



