Tu.)'l>in>.^ STAPHYLEAUEAti. 241 



Family XLYIII. STAPHYLEACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, usually tri- 

 foliolate or impariphmate, stipulate. Flowers in terminal or 

 axillary panicles, regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx of 5 free or 

 nearly free imbricate sepals. Petals 5, imbricate. Disk annular, 

 attached to the base of the calyx, usually lobed. Stamens 5, 

 opposite the sepals ; anthers 2-celled, the cells introrse. Ovary of 

 3 carpels, free or combined ; styles short ; stigmas capitate ; 

 ovules 2 or more in each cell. Fruit of 3 dehiscent capsules or 

 follicles or an indehisceiit berry. Seeds 4, arillate or exarillate, 

 albuminous ; embryo oblique ; cotyledons flat. 



Turpinia, Vent. 



Trees or shrubs with terete branches. Leaves opposite, iinpari- 

 pimiate, the leaflets opposite, stipellate, serrate. Flowers small, 

 regular, in terminal and axillary panicles with opposite branches. 

 Calyx of 5 sepals. Petals 5, imbricate. Disk an erect ring, lobed 

 or crenate. Stamens 5, inserted outside the disk. Ovary sessile, 

 3-lobed, 3-celled ; ovules 2 collateral or several 2-seriately super- 

 posed. Fruit a subglobose, fleshy berry, 3-celled. Seeds angular 

 without arillus ; testa hard, shining, often mottled ; hilum large ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat or plano-convex. 



Leaflets lanceolate, long-acuminate ; flowers small, about *2 in. in 

 diam. ; drupe size of a pea, 1-3-lobed ; filaments glabrous ; disk 



deeply lobed 1 . nepalensis. 



Leaflets elliptic ; abruptly obtuse-acuminate ; flowers about '4 in. in 

 diam. : drupe size of a cherry, 1-3 pointed but not lobed ; filaments 

 shortly villous ; disk evenly crenate 2. malabarica. 



1. TURPINIA NEPALENSIS, Wall. ; W. & A. 156 ; Wt. Ic. t. 972 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 159. T. pomifera, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 698 in part. 



W. Ghats, common in Nilgiri Shola forests at high levels, 

 usually about 5,000 ft. ; Pulneys and Travancore Hills, 

 less common. 



A moderate -sized tree with a soft grey useless wood. 

 Yerii. Badaga, Nila. 



2. TURPINIA MALABARICA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1916, 135. 



W. Coast; W. Ghats in the Anamalai Hills and Hills of 

 Travancore at low levels. 



