248 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Erioglossum. 



ERIOGLOSSUM RTJBIGINOSUM, Bl. E. edule, Bl. ; F. B. I. i. 



672. Sapindus rubigmosus, Boxb. Cor. PL i. 44, t. 62 ; W. & A. 



112. 



Eastern Ghats, in the Hills of Ganjam and Vizagapatam, up 

 to 2,000 ft, 



A good-sized tree, the braiichlets young leaves and inflores- 

 cence covered with dense golden-brown tomentum. Leaves 

 up to 2 ft. long with about 6 pairs of leaflets. Yern. Tel. Ishi 

 rashi. 



5. Schleichera, Willd. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, exstipulate, leaflets 

 opposite or subopposite, usually 3 pairs. Flowers regular, 

 poly gamo- dioecious, small, fascicled in interrupted slender 

 racemes or panicles ; pedicels slender. Calyx small, cupular ; 

 lobes 4-6, usually valvate. Petals 0. Disk flat, undulate on the 

 margin. Stamens 5-8, inserted within the disk ; filaments slender, 

 pubescent ; anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid, narrowed to the rigid 

 style, 3-celled ; stigma 3-4-lobed ; ovules erect, solitary ; in $ 

 flowers a villous pistillode. Fruit dry, crustaceous, indehiscent, 

 ovoid, acute, tipped with the style, smooth or sometimes more or 

 less echinate. Seeds erect, with a fleshy aril ; cotyledons con- 

 duplicate, unequal. 



SCHLEICHERA TRIJUGA, Willd.; F. B. I. i. 681; W. & A. 114; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 119; Brand. For. Fl. t. 20. 



All forest Districts, chiefly in deciduous forests and up to 

 3,000 ft., common and important. 



A large deciduous tree with large leaflets, which are bright 

 red when young. The aril of the fruit, which is about '7 to 

 1 in. long, is eaten, and the seeds give an oil. The bark is 

 grey and the wood very hard, light reddish-brown, strong 

 and durable and used for rice-pounders, in oil and other 

 mills and for carts. .The best lac is produced 011 its twigs. 

 Vern. Hind. Kusam ; Ur. Kusamo ; Tel. Puska ; Tarn. 

 Puvan ; Mai. Puvam ; Kan. Chakota. 



6. Filicium, Thw. 



Tree, braiichlets angular, covered, like the leaves, with waxy 

 scales. Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 6-8 pairs, subopposite, entire, articulate with the broadly-winged 



