Otophora.] XLIV. SAPINDACE^S. (W. P. Hiern.) 



pressed. Stigma sessile broadly trisulcate. Fruit whitish, glabrous, subglobose, tri- 

 gonous, 3-celled, 1{ in. diain. Seeds arillate. 



11. SCHLEICHERA, Willd. 



Trees. Leaves altern ate, exstipulate, pinnate; leaflets opposite (or alternate) 

 quite entire, repand-wavy or slightly serrate, with subparallel lateral veins 

 and delicate inconspicuous reticulation. Panicles or racemes simple, 

 elongated. Mowers small, fascicled, regular, polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 

 4-6-tid, small, cup-shaped ; lobes valvate or obscurely imbricated. Petals 

 absent. Disk complete, glabrous, wavy. Stamens 5-8, exserted, inserted 

 within the disk ; filaments more or less pubescent ; anthers small, glabrous. 

 Ovary ovoid, 3-4-celled, narrowed into a rigid style ; stigma 3-4-cleft. 

 Ovules solitary, erect. Fruit dry crustaceo- coriaceous, indehiscerit, 1-3- 

 celled. Seeds erect, enveloped in a fleshy aril ; embryo conduplicate, with 

 unequal connate cotyledons. DISTRIB. A small genus of India, the Indian 

 Archipelago, and the Philippine Islands. 



Beddome, in his Flora Sylvatica Anal. Gen. p. Ixxii., speaks of a new tree found by 

 him on the Golcondah hills, Vizagapatam district, which (he says) will probably turn 

 out to be a species of Schleichera ; it is a middle-sized tree, all the young parts and 

 the inflorescence pubescent-tomentose, leaves alternate abruptly or unequally pinnate, 

 8-10 inches long, leaflets 2-3 pair with or without a terminal odd one, ovate or oblong 

 with a longish acumination subentire or distantly and rather inconspicuously serrate, 

 quite glabrous in age except the costa, 3-4 inches long by 1-1| broad, petiolules ~L in. 

 long, racemes axillary panicled. The flower-buds on the specimen in the Kew Her- 

 barium are so young that their structure cannot be determined ; indeed the Natural 

 Order to which the plant ought to be referred is uncertain. It is different from any 

 known Indian species of Sapindacece. 



1. S. trijug-a, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 1096 ; leaflets 4-8 opposite elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong obtuse or shortly acuminate entire at length coriaceous 

 glabrescent or subvelutinous flat base rounded or obtuse sessile or sub- 

 sessile, fruit ellipsoidal glabrous apiculate smooth or spinous. Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 29 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 35 ; Thwaites Enum. 58 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 119; Brandis FL Syh. 105, t. 20; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 277 ; Roth. 

 Nov. Sp. 385; W. & A. Prodr. 114, not of Moritzi. S. pubescens, 

 Roth. I.e. Melicocca trijuga, Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. iii. 187, t. 8 ; 

 DC. Prodr. i. 615; Wall. Cat. 8080. Scytalia tryuga, Roxb. ex DC. I.e. 

 Stadmannia trijuga, Spreng. Syst. ii. 242. St. pubescens, Spreng. I.e. 

 Cussambium spinosum, Hamilt. in Tram. Werner. Soc. v. 356. C. gla- 

 brum, Hamilt. I.e. 0. pubescens, Hamilt. I.e. 357. Conghas zeylonensis, 

 Hb. Madr. ex Wall. I.e. M. pubescens, DC. I.e. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. i> 

 t. 57; Wall. Cat. 8106. 



Dry forests, from the N.W. HIMALAYA at Sirmor; throughout CENTRAL and 

 SOUTHERN INDIA, BIRMA, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java, Timor. 



A large tree, leafing and flowering early in the spring. Leaves paripinnate, 8-16 

 in. ; leaflets 1-10 by -4^ in. ; the lowest pairs the smallest. Racemes axillary, often 

 several on short branchlets, 2-4 in. Flowers yellowish or green. Fruit f-1 in. long. 

 The pulpy subacid aril is edible ; the bark is astringent, and, according to Dr. Rox- 

 burgh, the natives rub it up with oil and use it to cure the itch. The timber is good. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



S. PENTAPETALA, Roxb., is Cupania pentapetala, W. & A. 



S. TRIJUGA, Moritzi (not of- Willd.), is Cupania Lessertiana, Camb. 



