66 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



racemes, 2 or 3 together : ovary with irregular points on it, 

 style long exserted, stigmas 3 : fruit about an inch long, beetle- 

 shaped, with blunt prickles. Kusimb, Kun, Kocham. 



Konkan and Ghauts, common. The young leaves appear in the hot 

 weather, of a beautiful lake turning to copper colour. 



5. SAPINDUS. 



S. irifoliatus (S. laurifolius and emarginatus, D.). A tree 

 with about three pairs of ovate lanceolate entire leaflets, some- 

 times nearly a foot long, very papery : flowers very small, 

 dingy white, scarcely opening, in large compound panicles : 

 petals and stamens very woolly : fruit 3-lobed, rough, reddish- 

 brown. Ritta. 



There are two varieties distinguished by the greater or less 

 hairiness of the leaves and petioles, and by the leaflets being 

 pointed or emarginate. The fruit is used as soap, and called soap- 

 nut. 



Common in various parts : cultivated in Bengal (H.). 



6. DODONJEA. 



D. viscosa (D. Burmanniana, D.). A shrub, climbing or 

 straggling, leaves oblong, oval, more or less clammy, flowers 

 small, yellow, fragrant, in short cymes, disk hairy, capsules 

 oblong, winged. jDhdsera, dawa kajhdr, latchmi, jakhmi. 



S. Konkan. Khandalla and Belgaum (D.). Throughout India and 

 in all warm countries (H.). On the mountains in S. India it is a 

 small tree (Brandis) and in Afghanistan common in the low hills, 

 and used for thatching. JBellew. 



It is much like one of the Combretums in appearance. 



Erioglossum, leaves odd-pinnate, petals 4, unequal, stamens 8. 

 E. edule (Sapindus rubiginosa, D.), a tree with leaves resembling the 

 ash, very soft, flowers white, very fragrant, young parts reddish, 

 hairy. Mahim Woods, planted (D. 8f 6?.). 



NepTielium. Flowers regular, stamens 5 to 10. N. longanum. Tree 

 with 2 to 5 pairs of leaflets, flowers yellowish-white in panicles, 

 fruit reddish, size of a cherry, warty when young. Wumb, lungdm. 

 Parr and Ram Ghauts (D.). N. litchi produces the litchi fruit, and 

 is found in gardens. The contrast between the dark red rind and 

 the pearly pulp within is very striking ; but the flavour in Bombay 

 scarcely comes up to the description of the same in China. 



Turpinia. Flowers regular, sepals, petals and stamens 5. * T.pomi- 

 ffra (T. nepalensis, D.). Leaves opposite, leaflets 3 to 5 lanceolate, 

 flowers white in panicles, berry size of a large pea, 3-celled. Parwar 

 Ghaut (D.). 



