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XXXIX. SAPINDACE^E 



[Allophylus 



short pedicels in small fascicles, on narrow spiciform axillary racemes, 

 often paniculate, generally strigose. Sepals and petals nearly glabrous out- 

 side. Ripe carpels usually 

 solitary, \ in. diam., ovoid, 

 red. 



Common throughout the 

 Western Peninsula. Assam, 

 Kliasi hills, Chittagong, Bur- 

 ma. Fl. May-July. An exceed- 

 ingly variable plant. 2. A. 

 conoanicus, Radlkofer. Konkan, 

 Mira hill near Bombay. Scan- 

 dent. Leaflets 3, entirely 

 glabrous, shining, entire, 

 broadly ellijrtic, tertiary nerves 

 reticulate, conspicuous. Fl. in 

 ample terminal panicles. 3. A. 

 zeylanicus Linn. Sikkim Terai 

 and outer hills, ascending to 

 3,000 ft. Assam, Cachar, Malay 

 Peninsula and Ceylon. L. uni- 

 foliolate sinuate serrate, sec. n. 

 excurrent into the serratures, 

 blade 10-15, petiole 1-4 in. 

 Fr. red. \ in. diam. 



3. GUIOA, Cav. ; King 



in Journ. As. Soc. vol. 



65 (1897), 443. 



Erect shrubs or trees. 

 L. alternate, pinnate, stip- 

 ules 0, leaflets lanceolate, 

 entire, coriaceous. El. pen- 

 tanierous, nearly globose in 

 bud, in simple or branched racemes. Sepals round, thick, concave, pubescent 

 at the edges, imbricate. Petals with 2 pectinate scales. Disk generally 

 incomplete. Stamens 8. Ovary 3-celled, 3-anglecl, ovule one in each cell. Er. 

 a dehiscent 3-winged capsule. Cotyledons flesh}' and oily, folded. Species 

 33, IndoMalayan region, Australia, Oceania. 



1. G. fuscidula, Radlk. Oupania fuse idula, Kurz ; Fl. Brit Ind. i. 677. Tenasserim, a 

 small evergreen tree. Branchlets, leaves and inflorescence pubescent. Leaflets 3-4 

 pair, 2-3 in. long. Fr. J in. diam. 2. G. squamosa, Radlk. (Cupania glahrata, Hiern, 

 not of Kurz). Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. A slender tree. Branchlets slightly 

 rusty puberulous, leaflets glabrous, 2-4 in. long, 4-8 pair. Fr. 1 in. diam. 



Fig. S4. — Allophylus eobbe, Blume. 



4. DODONyEA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 697. 

 Species 46, mostly Australian. 



D. viscosa, Linn.; Brandis F. Fl. 113.— Syn. D. Burmanniana, DO. 

 Wight 111. t. 52 Vern. Ghisanni, Baluch ; Sanatta, Mendru, Pb. ; Kharata, 

 C.P. ; Bandari, Bundurgi, Kan. 



A gregarious shrub or small tree, attaining at times 20 ft., heartwood 

 dark brown, extremely hard, med. rays fine. Branchlets angular, young 

 shoots more or less viscid with bright yellow resin. L. varying from lanceo- 

 late to linear-cuneate, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, tapering into a short 

 marginate petiole, midrib prominent, sec. n. numerous. Fl. regular, poly- 

 gamous, in short terminal panicles. Sepals 5, petals 0. Stamens usually 8, 

 as long as sepals in <$ , shorter than sepals in $ fl., filaments much shorter 

 than anthers. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 3- or 4-celled, 2 ovules in each 



