Sapindus. 659 



Tamul. t. Drury (1873) s. Pü van ti Tamul. t.Trim. I.e. (1885) subS. emarg.; Poewandi- 

 cottay (cottay = nux) t. Ainslie (1826); Poowandie-cottay-Marum (Marum = 

 arbor) Tamul. t. Wight (1840); Nurre-mara Canarens. t. Metz in Hb. Webb et 

 Deless.; Rita fide Boorhani Qatiu Lexic. persic. (ed. Tb. Roebuck, Galcutta [1818] 

 423) et Rata fide Lex. pers. »Haft Gulzum s. Heft Kulzum (The seven seas)« 

 nominati (aut. Rege terrae Oude, Hyder Padischah, Lucknow 1822) III. 38 ex Jos. 

 Müller linguar. orient. prof. in litt, ad me a. 1871; Rite t. Forsk. 1. c. (1775), Ryteh 

 arab. t. Delile 1. c. (1813), Rfte (fruetus, Schweinfurth, Arabische Pflanzennamen 

 [1812] 41); Ritah t. Ainslie 1. c. (1826) aliisque; Ritha Hindice t. Hamilt. 1. c. (1837) 

 s. Reetah Pidd. 1. c. (1832); Retteh t. Abu Mansur Mowafik, Liber fundamentor. 

 Pharmakol. ed. R. Seligman II. (Vindob. 1833) 17; Rhete t. Graham 1. c. (1839); 

 Bura-reetha (Bura = magnus) Bengal. t. Roxb. (1814) s. Burra-reetha t. Wight 

 (1840) et Buro-ritha t. Voigt (1845) s. Buro-reetha t. Drury (1873); Bor ritha 

 t. Prain 1. c. (1905); Rishta (= laesus) Sanskrit, t. Ainslie (1826); Arishta (= illaesus) 

 t. eod.; Aratavala Canarens. t. Drury (1873); Bindake hindee persice t. Ainslie 

 (1826), potius Bundugi hindi (= nux Avellana indica) fid. Boorhani Qatiu ex Jos. 

 Müll, in litt. (cf. Radlk. 1. supra cit. »Zeitschr. f. Ethnol. IX. [1877] 307«); Finduk-i- 

 hindi Arabis et Persis ap. Schaer, Arzneipfl. als Fischgifte, seors. expr. e Festgabe 

 d. deutsch. Apotheker-Vereins (Strassb. 1897) 32, annot.; Bunduki hindi et Huresi 

 sini ap. Seligman 1. c. — Arbor pulchra, sat alta, crassa; rami teretes, striati, juveniles 

 molliter sufferrugineo-pubescentes, mox glabrati, cortice fusco-griseo lenticelloso- 

 punetato; folia 2 — 3-juga (interdum l 1 / 2 -juga), rhachi tereti striata sufferrugineo- 

 tomentella dein glabrescente; foliola alterna vel opposita, nunc (in forma 2. emarginato) 

 elliptico-oblonga vel obovata, obtusa plerumque emarginata, basi ^ obtusa petiolulis 

 crassis insidentia, subcoriacea, nervis lateralibus sat approximatis patulis subtus 

 prominentibus, subtus mollia, nunc (in forma 1. genuino) elliptico-lanceolata, ^ 

 acuminata, basi subacuta petiolulis insidentia, chartacea, nervis lateralibus approxi- 

 matis oblique erectis, subtus glabriuscula, omnia aretiuscule reticulato-venosa, supra 

 glabra nitidula, subtus opaca, flavescenti- vel canescenti-viridia, glandulis capitatis 

 crebris foveolis ineumbentibus ornata; panicula terminalis, conferte ramosa, saepius 

 corymbiformis, ramis thyrsoideis rhachique tomento brevi viridi-flavo indutis, sat 

 dense dichasia stipitata gerentibus; alabastra majuscula, ovalia, breviter pedicellata; 

 flores magni robusti; sepala 5, coriacea, elliptica, 2 exteriora angustiora, margine 

 glanduloso-ciliolata, extus adpresse viridescenti-tomentella; petala 5, anguste lanceo- 

 lata, longiuscule unguiculata, extus margineque dense villosa, intus glabra, supra 

 unguem marginis lobulis binis minimis albide villosis quodammodo bisquamulata; 

 discus regularis, pilosus; stamina 8, exserta, filamenta complanata, villosa, antherae 

 ellipticae, apiculatae, glabrae; germen trigono-subcordatum, 3-loculare, ochraceo-hirtel- 

 lum, in stylum breviusculum curvatum glabrum terminatum; fruetus 3- vel abortu 2- — 

 1-coccus, medioeris, coccis subtrigono-globosis plerumque sat carinatis hirtello-pilosis 

 denique praeter marginem commissuralem ^ glabratis opacis atrofuscis, piano cora- 

 missurali magno obovato-rhombeo transversim costato-striato; semen subglobosum. 



Arbor 30-pedalis, ligno flavescenti duro (t. Rheede). Rami 5 — 7 mm crassi. 

 Folia petiolo 3 — 6 cm longo adjeeto 15 — 25 cm longa, rarius petiolo ad 10 cm longo 

 adjeeto ad 35 cm longa; foliola superiora (in f. 2. emarginato) 8 — 11 cm longa, 3 — 5 cm 

 lata, inferiora fere dimidio minora, (in f. 1. genuino) 11 — 18 cm longa, 4 — 7 cm lata, 

 petioluli 5 — 6 mm longi (in eultis foliola maxima 21 cm longa, 9 — 10 cm lata). Panicula 

 12 — 20 cm longa, 12 — 15 cm lata; dichasiorum stipites 2 mm longi. Alabastra 5 mm 

 longa, 4 mm lata. Fruetus 2 cm altus, cocci 1,6 cm lati et crassi. 



Formae 2 discernendae sunt, altera in alteram vario modo transeuntes supra 

 jam indicatae: 



F. 1. genuinus Radlk. {S. laurifolius Vahl, -5". acutus Roxb.): Foliola elliptico- 

 lanceolata, ^ acuminata, glabriuscula. 



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