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V. 4, p. 221. Cupania canescens, Pers. Sju. v. 1 (1805) p. 413; Grrali. 

 Cat. p. 2'J ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 35. — Flowers : Peb.-May. Vers. Karpa ; 

 LoJchiindi. 



Konkan: Parel, JVoodrow; Matheran, Kanitkar], H. M. Birdwood. Deccan : 

 I'alasdari, Woodrow I ; Biinashankar, Gibson ; Khandala, Grah mi. S. M. Codntky : 

 Kaiughal, Dalzell i.f Gibso7i. — Distkib. India (Biriua, Madras, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



3. ALLOPHYLUS, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, ecirrhose. Leaves alternate, exsti palate, 1-3- 

 foliolate ; leaflets usually large, entire or serrate. Kacemes simple or 

 laxly paniculate, axillary. Flowers irregular, small, polvgamo-dia3cious. 

 Sepals 4, in opposite pairs, cucuUate, membranous, widely imbricate, the 

 2 outer smaller. Petals 4 (the place of the 5th vacant), usually small, 

 naked inside or with a shaggy scale above the claw. L>isk unilateral, 

 lobed or swollen into 4 glands opposite the petals, very rarely obsolete. 

 Stamens excentric or scarcely centric, included or shortly exserted. 

 Ovary usually 2-crilled ; ovule 1 in each cell, ascending from its base. 

 Fruit indehiscent, usually 1-2-lobed ; lobes subglobose, fleshy or dry. 

 Seeds erect, usually with a very short fleshy aril ; embryo curved ; 

 cotyledons pUcate. — Distuib. Chiefly Tropical America ; less frequent 

 in Tropical and S. Africa, the Pacific Islands and Australia ; species 

 about 80. 



1. Allophylus Cobbe, Bhcme, Rumph. v. 3 (1847) p. 131. A 

 small tree, or a shrub often climbing to a considerable height. Leaves 

 3-foliolate, 3-5| by l|-i^f in., alternate, crowded at the extremities of 

 the branchlets, drooping ; common petioles 2-2i in, long, ferrugineo- 

 pubescent ; leaflets ovate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, sharply and 

 distantly serrate-dentate, more or less hairy or pubescent on both sur- 

 faces, the terminal leaflet usually acute at the base, the lateral leaflets 

 usually rounded and more or less oblique ; petiolules of the lateral 

 leaflets |-^ in., those of the terminal leaflets sometimes reaching 1 in. 

 long. Flowers small, white, shortly pedicelled, in fascicles along the 

 branches of spicate axillary 2-4-branched racemes. Sepals glabrous. 

 Petals cuneate, with a fringed scale above the claw. Stamens 8. 0\'ary 

 2-lobed, hairy. Fruit globose, smooth, size of a pea, I'ed when ripe. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 673 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 303 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 58 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 272 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 175. Schmidelia Kohhe, Lamk. Tab. v. 2, p. 443, 

 t. 312, f. 2. S. Cobbe, DC. Prodr. v. 1, p. 610 ; Grah. Cat. p. 29. 

 Cardiospermum Schmidelia & Cardiospermum villosa, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 34. 

 — Flowers : May-Aug. Vekn. Tipan. 



Konkan : Mira hills near Pen, Dalzell ^ Gibson. Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrovt, 

 Kanitkar ! Mahableshwar, very common, Cooke !, H. M. Birdwood. Kanaka : in 

 moist forests and along the banks of rivers and streams in N. Kanara, usually a 

 scandent shrub, Talbot. — Distrib. India (Assam, Silhet, Birma, E. & W. Peninsulas); 

 Ceylon, Malaya, N. Australia. 



4. SCHLEICHERA, Willd. 



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

 alternate. Flowers regular, polygamo-dioecious, small, fascicled on slender 

 simple racemes or panicles; pedicels slender. Calyx small, 4-6-iid^g, 



