Erioglossum.} XLIV. SAPINDACE2E. (W. P. Hiern.) 673 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, OuDH, EASTERN PENINSULA, from Birma to Penang and 

 Malacca, Western Peninsula from the Godavery southwards. DISTHIB. Widely spread 

 over the Indian Archipelago, and N.W. coast of Australia. 



A large timber tree or shrub, with the shoots petioles and inflorescence ferruginous- 

 pubescent. Leaves about 1-2 ft. ; leaflets 3-15 by l-3 in. Flowers sweet-scented, 

 shortly pedicelled in small clusters, on elongated spike-like racemes, arranged in a 

 panicle. Fruit \ in. Wood useful, strong, and durable, chocolate coloured in the 

 centre. In Linnaeus' Herbarium this species is named Sapindus Saponaria. 



5. ALLOFHYLUS, Linn. 



Small trees or shrubs. L-^a^tA 1- or 3-foliolate, exstipnlate, leaflets entire 

 or serrate. Racemes simple or branched axillary. Flowers small, polygamo- 

 dicecious, globose, shortly pedicelled, white or yellowish. Sepals, 4 in 

 opposite pairs, hooded, membranous, widely imbricated ; the two outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, the place of the 5th vacant, small (or obsolete), 

 sometimes declinate, naked inside or usually furnished with a shaggy scale 

 above the claw. Disk one-sided, usually with 4 glands opposite the petals. 

 Stamens 8, inserted on the receptacle inside the disk. Ovary usually 

 2-lobed and 2-celled ; ovules in the cells solitary. Fruit indehiscent 

 usually 1-2-lobed ; lobes subglobose, fleshy or dry. Seeds usually with a 

 short fleshy aril ; embryo curved ; cotyledons plicate. DISTRIB. A large 

 chiefly tropical American genus ; about 12 species occur in tropical Africa, 

 others in South Africa, the Mascarine Islands, Madagascar, &c., and several 

 in the Indian Archipelago. 



SECT. I. Leaves unifoliolate. 



1. A. zeylanicus, Linn. Nov. PI. Gen. in Amoen. Acad. i. 398 (1747); 

 leaves unifoliolate ovate oblong or obovate more or less acuminate, racemes 

 simple or slightly branched. Schrnidelia Allophylus, DC. Prodr. i. 611. 

 Arn. in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xviii. 326 ; Thwaites Enum. 55; Bead. Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 286. S. bidentata, Wall. Cat. 8062. Ornitrophe Allophylus, 

 Pers. Syn. PI. i. 412. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft. ASSAM. CACHAR. CEYLOX. 



A shrub or small tree with terete branches. Leaves 1^-16 by ^-7| in.;/petioles |-3 

 in. Racemes |-9 in. Flowers j^-fe in. diam. Fruit globose, red. A /variable spe- 

 cies, the principal forms of which may be indicated as follows ; intermediate forms exist 

 in some cases. 



VAR. 1. acuminata; glabrous, leaves quite entire ovate, racemes rather long. S. 

 acuminata, Thwaites Enum. 55; Bedd. Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 287. Ceylon. 



VAR. 2. axsamica; glabrous, leaves quite entire oblong, racemes short. Assam. 



VAR 3. hispida; branches midrib and margins of leaf hispid. S. hispida, Thwaites, 

 I.e. ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 152. Ceylon. 



VAR. 4. varians; leaves small obovate toothed widely repand denticulate subcoria- 

 ceous, racemes rather elongated. S. varians, Thwaites Enum. 408 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. 

 Or. t. 288. 



VAR. 5. Thwaitesii; leaves 6-10 in. obovate toothed widely repand denticulate or 

 toothed subcoriaceous, racemes short. Ceylon. 



.VAR. 6. grand/folia; leaves obovate toothed or widely repand denticulate, submem- 

 branous. iSchmidelia, sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. Sikkim, Assam, Cachar. 



SECT. II. Leaves trifoliolate. 



2. A. Cobbe, Blurtie Rumph. iii. 131 ; leaves trifoliolate, leaflets obovate 

 ovate or lanceolate mostly acuminate hairy or glabrous subcoriaceous entire 

 dentate or serrate, racemes simple, flowers irregular, petals sometimes 

 declinate. Rhus Cobbe, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 267. Ornitrophe Cobbe, 



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