Erioglossum.'] SAPINDACEAE. 247 



petals. Stamens usually 8, erect, the filaments free, equal. Ovary 

 excentric, trigonous, 3-celled ; style simple ; stigma oblique ; 

 ovules in each cell solitary. Fruit 3-celled, 3-sided, thickly 

 coriaceous, tomentose or velvety, the cells hirsute within. Seeds 

 oblong, exarillate, the hilum linear ; testa thick ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, obliquely superposed ; radicle minute. 



Leaflets 2-3 pairs, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, rarely acute, 

 3-10 in. long ; flowers '2--3 in. broad ; petals with 2 scales, the outer 

 reflexed, the inner laciniate ; fruit yellow-velvety, tomentose, 



depressed at apex when ripe 1. tetraphylla. 



Leaflets 5-7 pairs, oblong or oblanceolate, acuminate, 4-10 in. long ; 

 flowers '3-'4 in. broad ; petals with 1 reflexed scale ; fruit hispidly 

 yellow- tomentose, acute at apex 2. deficiens. 



1. LEPISANTHES TETRAPHYLLA, Radlk. Molinoea canescens, 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 60. Hemigyrosa canescens, Thw. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 671 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 151. Cnpania canescens, 

 W. & A. 113. 



Evergreen dry forests of the E. Coast in the Circars and 

 Carnatic, nowhere very common, ascending to 3,000 ft. 

 A moderate-sized rather crooked tree with a white hard 

 wood. Yern. Tel. Korivi ; Tani. Nekota. 



2. LEPISANTHES DEFICIENS, Radlk. Hemigyrosa deficiens, 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 231 ; F. B. I. i. 671. 



W. Ghats, in evergreen forests in the Wynaad, Anamalais 



and Hills of Travancore, up to 4,000 ft., scarce. 



A small tree with purple flowers and narrow leaflets. 



4. Erioglossum, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, imparipiimate, exstipulate ; 

 leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire. Flowers irregular, poly- 

 gamo-dioecious, in elongated erect terminal panicles Sepals 5, 

 unequal, orbicular, concave, imbricate. Petals 4, unequal, obovate, 

 the place of the 5th vacant, each petal with a hooded apically 

 lobed woolly scale on the inner face. Disk one-sided, lobed. 

 Stamens 8, one-sided; anthers oblong ; filaments villous. Ovary 

 stipitate, obcordate, 3-lobed, 3-celled; style slender; stigma 

 obscurely 3-lobed; ovules solitary. Fruit indehiscent, deeply 

 1-3-lobed, the segments not separating. Seeds oblong, exarillate ; 

 testa membranous ; embryo straight with thick cotyledons, 



