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2. CARDIOSPERMUM CANESCENS, Wall. PL As. Rar. i. t. 14; 

 F. B. I. i. 670 ; W. & A. 109 ; Wt. Ic. t. 74. 

 Deccan and Carnatic from the Kistna through Mysore to 

 S. Arcot, usually inland, extending to the N. and E. slopes 

 of Nilgiris. 



2. Allophylus, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, 1- or 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 entire or serrate ; stipules 0. Flowers small, irregular, polygamo- 

 dioecious, pedicelled, in fascicles in simple or branched axillary 

 thyrses. Sepals 4 in opposite pairs, cucullate, imbricate, the 

 outer pair smaller than the inner. Petals 4, small or almost 

 obsolete, generally decimate, naked inside or with a reflexed 

 shaggy scale above the claw. Disk unilateral, usually with 

 4 glands opposite the petals. Stamens 8, inserted on the 

 receptacle inside the disk, in $ flowers surrounding the ovary. 

 Ovary usually 2-lobed and 2-celled, in < flowers merely a pistil- 

 lode ; styles 2, free or connate below, stigmatose on the inner 

 face above ; ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit indehiscent, 1-2-lobed ; 

 lobes subglobose. Seeds erect, with a short aril ; embryo curved, 

 the cotyledons plicate. 



Leaves in all trifoliolate : 



Thyrses shorter than the leaves, sometimes shorter than the petiole, 

 not branched ; bark of branchlets whitish ; leaflets about 2-5 in. 

 long, serrate crenate- serrate or dentate, usually hoary-tomentose 



beneath ; drupes small 1. serratus. 



Thyrses equalling or longer than the leaves, not or very rarely 

 branched : 



Bark of branchlets brown, young ones and leaves beneath usually 

 tomentose; leaflets about 3-8 in. long, mucronulate- serrate, the 

 nerves reddish ; thyrses single, but sometimes one short branch 



2. serrulatus. 



Bark of branchlets white ; leaflets glabrous, about 5-7 in. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate ; thryses single or in pairs ; 



drupes rather large, *4 in. long 3, distachys. 



Thyrses longer than the leaves, with few branches chiefly near the 

 base ; bark of branches yellowish-brown, the young ones and leaves 

 beneath densely f ermginous-tomentose ; side leaflets ovate, end one 



obovate, all acuminate, 3-6 in. long 4. Rheedii. 



Thyrses longer than the leaves, much branched ; bark of branchlets 



