2. ScHiEicHEEA.] 32. SAPINDACE&. 



on racemes 2-6" long which are axillary or below the leaves and often on 

 special abbreviated branchlets. Sepals ^o "> 4 "6 pubescent. Petals 0. 

 Vise annular. St. 4-8 with long slender glabrous filaments £-£" long. Ovary 

 glabrous 3-celled. Fr. mostly 1-celled, toughly-coriaceous, 1-1&* ovoid, 

 usunlly with a Bharp point, sometimes slightly prickly. Seed entirely 

 enveloped in the aril with a thick smooth brown testa. Embryo large 

 horse-shoe shaped, the short radicle in a fold of the testa; 



The timber is good tut the tree is rarely cut in the village lands, being 

 left for the cultivation of lac, which yields twice the price of lac grown on 

 any other tree. Both the aril and the kernel of the seeds are eaten and a 

 good oil for cooking is expressed from the seeds. Campbell says that the 

 oil is used also for the treatment of certain skin diseases. 



The tree is very readily raised from seed sown as soon as ripe. The 

 young plants should be put out in the second year, i.e., exactly one year 

 from the time of sowing. 



Cardiosperrnum Halicacabum. L. Galphul, Kharw., is a slender 

 elegant climber with deltoid ternately divided and toothed leaves, and 

 small white flowers in long peduncled axillary cymes, the lowest pair of 

 pedicels developed as recurved tendrils. Capsule inflated membranous . 

 3-celled. 



Common. 



Fl. Aug.-S&pt. Fr. Nov. 



4. Dodonaea, L. 



1. D. VisCOSa, L. Mehndi, Vern. 



A light-green large shrub often 10 ft, high with simple 

 oblanceolate glabronB sab-sessile leaves 1-3J" long and short 

 cymes of greenish flowers. Capsule membranous 2-4-winged 

 compressed. 



Often grown in gardens, and apparently naturalized about Eoderma, 

 but not native in Chota Nagpur. 



Young leaves and flower-buds in Dec. Fl. Jqn.-Feb. 



Shoots and Leaves somewhat resinous. Sec. n. numerous. Fh» poly- 

 gamous. Sep. 5 (or fewer). Pet. 0. Ovary 3-4-celled. 



fam. 33. SABIACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs with simple or pinnate alternate exstipu- 

 late leaves. Fls. small, with 5-3 sepals and petals or appar- 

 ently only 3 petals, the other two being reduced to scales 

 St. as many as the petals and opposite to them, but freauentlj 



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