264 XLIII. SAPINDACE^. 



Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 5, p. 308, fig. 159, a-c ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 272 ; Watt, Diet. Ecoa. Prod. 

 V. 2, p. 155. — Flowers: Dec. Vern. Ttjovati; Kapal-pliodi. 



Known as the Heart-pea or Ballooyi-imie. Coiiimon in hedges throughout the 

 Presidency, Graham, Dalzell Sf Gibson. Deccan : hills, Woodrow ; Poona, Baoji !, 

 Cooke], Jacquemont,4A'6\ Sind : Stocks. 



The root, leaves and seeds are extensivelj- employed in native medicine. See Watt, 

 Diet. Eoon. Prod. 1. c. — Distrib. Most warm countries. 



2. Cardiosperxnum canescens, Wall. PI. As. Bar. v. 1 (1830) 

 p. 14. Scandeut ; stein slirubby, deeply 5-furrovved, more or less pubes- 

 cent. Leaves 2-ternate, pubescent on both sides ; ultimate segments 

 smaller than in the preceding species and blunter, the terminal segment 

 muc-ronate or cuspidate. Flowers larger than in the preceding species, 

 |-§ in. long, in long-peduncled umbellate cymes. Tendrils as in 

 C. IJalicacabum. Capsules 1-1| in. long, inflated, suhglobose, 3-angled, 

 not winged. Seeds as in the preceding species. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 670 ; 

 Wight, Icon, t, 74. C. Cofindum, Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 300. 



I have seen only one specimen from Bombay in Herb. Kew. marked " Konkan, 

 Stocks I " — Distrib. India (Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Abyssinia. 



2. HEMIGYROSA, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate, pale ; leaflets opposite 

 or nearly so, 2-3 pairs, petioluled, entire, coriaceous, oblong, reticulately 

 veined. Flowers polygamo-moncccious, irregular, in axillary many- 

 flowered paniculately arranged spicate racemes. Sepals 5, unequal, erect, 

 concave, the 2 outer smaller. Petals 4-5, unequal (the 5th often 

 deficient or scale-like), erect, clawed, with a jagged hooded scale near 

 the base. Disk pulvinate, unilateral. Stamens usually 8, unequal, 

 unilateral ; filaments pilose ; anthers not or scarcely exserted. Ovary 

 excentric, turbinately trigonous, 3-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell ; 

 stigma trigonous, obtuse. Fruit indehiscent, thickly coriaceous, fleshy 

 or woody, trigonous or globose, velvety or tomentose, 3-celled, the cells 

 hirsute within. Seeds oblong, exarillate ; testa coriaceous ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, equal. — Distuiu. Tropical Asia ; species 3-4. 



1. Hemigyrosa canescens, Thwaltes, Enum. (1858) p. 56 & p. 408. 

 A middle-sized tree with a crooked trunk of considerable girth ; bark ash- 

 colored. Leaves variable in length ; rhachis smooth ; leaflets 2-3 pairs, 

 opposite or subopposite, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, acute or emarginate, 

 3-5 by 1-1 1 in., entire, glabi-ous, shining, ashy green; petiolules ^-i 

 in. long. Flowers about ^| in. long, in simple or panicled velvety- 

 pubescent racemes which are axillary or scattered over the branches; 

 bracts minute, triangular. Sepals uncMjual, the 2 outer ovate-orbicular, 

 ciliate, the 3 inner larger, orbicular, concave, with ciliate or laciniate 

 margins. Petals vhite, oblong-spathulate, sliortly clawed, slightly 

 laciniate ; scale about ^ as long as the petal, hairy at the base, 2-lobed at 

 the apex, the lobes laciniate. Stamens slightly longer than the petals ; 

 filaments hairy. Fruit .^-l in. in diam., suhglobose or trigonous, velvety- 

 tomento.se, apiculate, yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 671 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 

 t. 151 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 301 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 58; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 272; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 



