Cupania.] XLIV. SAPINDACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) 679 



oblong or ovate-oblong slightly or scarcely acuminate glabrous thinly 

 coriaceous delicately reticulated lateral veins rarely conspicuous sometimes 

 with axillary glands, flowers pentamerous rarely tetramerous ?, calyx cleft, 

 petals small or wanting without scales, filaments exserted pubescent. 

 Mischocarpus sumatranus, Blume Rumph. iii. 168. Sapindacea, Wall. Gat. 

 9035, 8108. C. sp. 4, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 



SILHET, Gomez, H.f. & T. TENASSERIM, at Moulmein, Griffith. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A tree of 30-40 ft. or loftier, branched high up. Branches as well as the rachis of 

 the leaves reddish. Leaves 8-24 in. ; leaflets 3^-11 by l|-3 in.; petiolules ^-^ in. 

 Inflorescence 6-12 in. ; flowers whitish ^ in. wide. Petals when present minute or not 

 exceeding the calyx, narrow, somewhat pubescent. Capsule f-f- in., pyriform, marked 

 with '3-4 ribs, constricted at base into a thick trigonous stipes, apiculate, glabrate, red 

 (Blume, I.e.). A specimen from Pegu (Kurz} in Hb. Kew., consisting of a leaf 33 in. 

 with 10 leaflets 15-18 by about 3 in., has been named Eatonia sumatrana by Kurz 

 in Hb. Kew, 



11. C. Helferi, Hiern; leaflets 4 alternate elliptic-oblong subacurainate 

 glabrous delicately reticulated base obtuse, flowers pentamerous on short 

 patent racemes arranged in racemose pubescent subtermiual panicles, calyx 

 cleft subvalvate, petals 0, filaments pubescent, ovary pyriform stipitate 

 pubescent not lobed. 



TENASSERIM, or ANDAMAN ISLDS., Heifer. 



Leaves about 1 ft. ; racbis terete ; leaflets 5-8 by 2^-2^ in. ; petiolules - in. 

 Panicles exceeding the leaves. Calyx in. diam. ; lobes ovate. Stamens 8. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



C. CANESCENS, Pers., is Hemigyrosa canescens, Thwaites. 



C. (sp.) 6, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T., is Hemigyrosa canescens, Thwaites. 



C. (sp.), Watt. Cat. 8067 A, is Nephelium Longana, Camb. 



C. (sp.), Wall. Cat. 8067 B, is perhaps Aglaia edulis, A. Gr. 



C. (sp.), Wall. Cat. 8069, is Chisocheton paniculatus, Hiern. 



C. (sp.), Wall. Cat. 9034, is Hemigyrosa cauescens, Thwaites. 



9. LEPISANTHES, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, exstipulate, alternate; leaflets entire, 

 subopposite. Inflorescence axillary and lateral, spike-like. Flowers regular, 

 polygamo-dicecious. Sepals 5-4 widely imbricated in two rows. Petals 

 5-4, equal, furnished at the base with a short wide inflected entire scale. 

 Disk annular, regular. Stamens 8, erect, inserted within the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, 3-sided, 3-celled ; ovules solitary ; style simple : stigma blunt. 

 Fruit drupaceous, 3-celled, 3-sided, not lobed. Seeds solitary, erect, ex- 

 albuniinous ; cotyledons very thick, unequal. DISTRIB. Species few, all 

 except the following confined to the Indian Archipelago. 



1. It. xnpntana, Blume Bijdr. 238 ; Rumph. iii. 151 ; leaflets 8-10 sub- 

 opposite elliptic- or ovate-oblong subacuminate base very shortly petioluled 

 subcordate, racemes subfascicled axillary lateral simple or branched. 



BIRMA ; hills between Sitang and Beeling, Brandis. DISTRIB. Java. 



A tree with dark smooth bark. Leaves l-2 ft., paripinnate ; leaflets 5-10 by 2-3 in., 

 glabrous above, glabrate or pubescent beneath along the midrib. Inflorescence 2-10 in., 

 shortly pubescent. Calyx % in. ; petals rather longer, long-clawed. Fruit hairy. 

 A fruiting panicle from 1'egu, about 18 in. long, without leaves in the Hb. Kew, named 

 by Kurz L. montana, Bl. f has fruits nearly 1 in. long. 



