242 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Turpinia. 



A large tree with bright yellow young leaves. Vern. Tarn. 

 Kanali ; Mai. Pamba vetti. 



Family XLIX. ACERACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled ; stipules 0. Flowers 

 regular, polygamous. Sepals and petals isomerous, sometimes 

 wanting. Disk annular or lobed, sometimes small or 0. Stamens 

 4-10, more usually 8, inserted outside or upon, rarely inside, the 

 disk ; filaments free. Ovary of 2 carpels, each 1-2-ovuled. Fruit 

 of 2 indehiscent samaroid mericarps ; albumen 0. 



Acer, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs ; buds with many scales, the outer short, 

 coriaceous, the inner oblong, membranous, developing later. 

 Leaves entire or palmately lobed or divided or pinnately 3-5-folio- 

 late. Flowers regular, in terminal or lateral racemes or corymbs. 

 Calyx usually 5-, sometimes 4-12-lobed, the lobes imbricate, 

 deciduous. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, or 0, erect, shortly 

 clawed. Disk thick, annular or cupshaped. Stamens usually 

 8, inserted on the disk ; filaments usually shorter in <$ than in 

 $ flowers. Ovary 2- rarely 3-lobed and -celled, laterally com- 

 pressed ; cells 2-ovuled ; style bipartite, the divisions linear, 

 stigmatose on the inner face. Fruit a double samara, indehiscent, 

 the wing large, membranous, thickened at the back. Seeds 

 exalburuinous ; cotyledons irregularly folded ; radicle generally 

 long. 



ACER NIVEUM, Blume ; F. B. I. i. 693. 



1ST. Circars, Madgol Hills of Yizagapatam, about 3,000 ft. 



(A. W. Lushington). 



A large tree with undivided, entire, oblong, acuminate leaves 

 up to 7 in. long, rounded at base and white- glaucous beneath. 

 Samaras incurved so as to be nearly parallel. 



Acer oblongum, Wall., also with undivided leaves, has been 

 introduced from N. India and planted in the Nilgiris with some 

 success. 



Family L. SAPINDACEAE. 



Trees, shrubs or rarely climbing herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 pinnate or rarely simple trifoliolate or unifoliolate. Flowers 

 regular or zygomorphic, generally polygamous. Calyx 4-5-lobed 



