94 SAPINDACE.E. 



Anarnalai Hills. Ditivhismu Rarak, Hook. f. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 672 ; Kurz i. 297, is 

 an evergreen tree of the Pegu Yomas and Tcnasserim. Erioglossum edule, Blume ; 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 672 (E. rubiginosum, Bi. ; Brandis 108. Sapindus rubiginosa, Bl. ; 

 Beddome Ixxiii. ; Roxb. Fl. hid. ii. 282. Pancovia rubiginosa, Baill. ; KUTZ i. 296) 

 Vern. Bitha, Hind. ; Ishi rashi, Tel. ; Manipangam, Tarn. ; Tseikchay, Burm. (No. 

 23 Brandis' Burma List, 1862, marked Sapindus, 66 Ibs. ex Kurz' MSS.), is a 

 large tree of Sikkim, Assam, South India and Burma, said by Roxburgh to have a 

 strong durable wood with a chocolate-coloured heartwood. Scyphopetalum rami- 

 Jlorum, Hiern. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 676, and Zollingeria macrocarpa, Kurz i. 288. 

 Vern. Wetkyotbeng, Burm., are trees of Burma. Cupania contains 9 species, the chief 

 of which are C. glabrata, Kurz i. 284 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 676 (Sapindus squamosus, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 282) of Burma and C. pentapetala, W. and A. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 

 678. (Schleichera pentapetala, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 275) Vern. Koiki-pura $ ; Purakoi $ . 

 Sylhet, a large tree of Sylhet; the rest are small Burmese trees. Of Lepisanthes 

 there are two Burmese species ; Xerospermum Noronhianum, Bl. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 

 686 ; Kurzi. 295, is a tree of the Khasia Hills, E. Bengal and Burma, while Harpullia 

 cupanioides, Roxb. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 692 (H. imbricata, Bl. ; Beddome t. 158), is a 

 large tree of the Western Ghats. Dobincea vulgaris, Ham. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 696 ; 

 Gamble 23. Vern. Samli, Nep., is a large shrub of the Eastern Himalaya. 



Wood generally soft or moderately soft, even grained ; no distinct 

 heartwood except in Schleichera. Pores small, or very small, generally 

 uniform and uniformly distributed. Medullary rays very line or fine 

 rarely moderately broad, often closely packed. Apart from the annual 

 rings, no concentric bands except in Allophyllus and Sapindus. 



]. ALLOPHYLLUS, Linn. 



A genus containing 2 large shrubs : that here described, which has trifoliolate leaves, 

 and A. zeylanicus, Linn. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 673 ; Gamble 22, a shrub or small tree 

 of the Eastern Himalaya and Assam, with unifoliolate leaves. 



1. ACobbe, Bl.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 673 ; Kurz i. 299. Omitrophe 

 Cobbe, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 268. Schmidelia Cobbe, Beddome Ixxiii. 

 Vern. Thaulcjoi, Burm. 



A deciduous shrub. Wood grey, soft. Pores small, scanty, medul- 

 lary rays moderately broad, short, joined by numerous white parallel 

 and equidistant concentric lines ; prominent on a, radial section. 



Eastern Bengal, South India, Burma and Andaman Islands. 



Lb8. 



B 1988. Andaman Islands (Kurz 1866) l<> 



2. ^ESCULUS, Linn. 



A genus containing two Indian species. The Horse-chestnut, commonly plan toil 

 in Europe, i the JE. llippocastanum, Linn. 



Wood white, soft to moderately hard. Annual rings distinct. Pores 

 numerous, small or very small, generally abundant in the spring wood. 

 Medullary rays uniform, equidistant) very line, very numerous. 



1. JB. indica, Colebr. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 075; Brandis 103. Tho 

 Indian Horse-chestnut. Vern. Torjaya, Trans-Indus ; lldne, hani'<li''if, 

 Kashmir; Bank/tor, yugu, kanor, pan bar, Hind. 



A large deciduous tree. Hark gn i y, with long horizontal cracks, 



exfoliating in long flakes. Wood white, with a pinkish tinge, si|'t, 



grained. Annual rings marked by a line and sometimes by fewer 



