Dodonoea] XXXIX. SAPIXDACE.E 187 



cell, style cylindric, 2-lobed at top. Fr. a membranous capsule with "2-4 broad 

 wings from base to style, i in. long and j in. across including the wings, 

 separating septicidally into as man}- valves as cells, each valve winged on its 

 back. Seeds opaque, dark brown or black, with a thickened funicle. 



Trnns Indus. Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Common locally, often covering: exten- 

 sive traits in the drier regions of North-West and Central India as well as in the 

 Deccan. Also on the sea coast. Fl. E. S. Fr. C. S. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. Tropicsof most countries. A most interesting genus, which may possibly 

 not belong to Sapindacete. 



Stocksia brahuica, Benth., Baluchistan 6,000 ft.. Afghanistan, Eastern Persia. A ~titt' 

 thorny shrub 6-12 ft. high. L. linear, grey, generally fasciculate. Fl. yellow, in 

 axillary fascicles, Sepals 5, ciliate, petals 4, oblong on a hairy claw. Disk oblique. 



Sta n- 8, filaments hairy below, capsule membranous, inflated, obtusely trigonous, 



loculicidal, of a brilliant yellowish-red colour. 



5. HARPULLIA, Roxb. : Fl. Brit, Ind. i. G91. 

 Species (5, Madagascar, Northern Australia, tropical Asia. 



H. cupanioides, Roxb.— Syn. //. imbricate, Thw. : Bedd. Fl. Sylv. fc. 158. 

 Vern. Harjmlli, Chitt. 



A tall tree, 1. pari-pinuate. Leaflets opposite or alternate, 3-U pair, glab- 

 rous, 3-8 in. Long. Fl. regular, 5-merous, polygamous, A- in. long, in cymose 

 panicles. Sepals erect, equal, imbricate, minutely pubescent outside, petals 

 clawed, longer than sepals. Stamens 5, glabrous, inserted inside the small 

 puberulous disk. Ovary 2-celled, ovules '-' in each cell, style filiform, stigma 



i less twisted. Fr. an inflated 2-lobed capsule, brilliant orange, each 



lobe upoiiino- l,\ -j \al\rs. Seeds Mark, usually one iu each lobe. 



Common in 1 1 vergreen forests of the Western Ghats from the Konkan southwards. 



Chittagong, Andamans. Fl. C. S. Pr. II. s. "A beautiful sight when covered with 

 ii- brilliant orange fruit " (Bedd.). I teylon, .Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Yunan. 



Trimen, I la mil k Ceylon i. 812, regards the plant of Ceylon and the Western Peninsula 



i //. imbricata, Thw.) as different from il astern tree. 



Paranephelium xestophyllum, Miq. ; Kurz P. Fl. i. 286 [Scyphopetalum ramiflorum, 

 Hiem). Efookhoom Valley, Upper Burma. Tenasserim (Kurz). Sumatra. Asmallever- 



g] n tree. L. coriac is, shining, imparipinnate, leaflets opposite, 2-4 pair, entire, 



sec. n. 10 II pair, blade I 8, petiole ', .{ in. PI. minute, pink, in rusty-tomentose 



panicles, generally on il Id wood. Petals 5, each forming a turbinate cup, .glabrous 



outside, villous inside. Pr. a dehiscent 3-valved capsule, rauricate. 



Lepidopetalum Jackianuni, Rodtk. : Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix. t. 23. (Cupania fackiana, 

 Hiern). Nicobar Islands. A small tree. I., pinnate, leaflets chartaceous, shining on 

 both faces, 2 5 pair, alternate or nearly opposite. Sec. n. 8-10 po Lr, arching, prominent 

 beneath, veins finely reticulate. PI. tetramerous in short axillarj I'acemes. Sepals 

 lanceolate, petals much shorter than sepals, each with a large scale adnate to ii- edgi 

 St a mi 'ii- 8, short, filaments glabrous, ant Inn-- hirsute. Capsule coriaceous, compressed, 



obovate, i[ in. long, reddish-brown when ripe, dehiscent, 2-valved. S 1 I, bl 



arillus pair pink or « hite. 



6. MISCHOCARPUS, Blume; King Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. 65 



L897 . p. 1 IT. 



Trees. I., alternate, paripinnate, stipules 0, leaflets entire, reticulate veins 

 conspicuous. PI. pentamerons, in axillary simple or branched racemes. Calys 

 minute^ cup-shaped. Petals in some species wanting. Disk entire, annular. 

 Stamens 8 or fewer. Capsule pyriform, blunt, 3-celled, >rrA enveloped in a 

 thin arillus. Species 12, [ndo-Malayan and Australasian. 



I. M. fuscescens, Blume.— Syn. Cupania Helferi, Hiern; Kurz P. Fl. 

 i. 285. 

 A large glabrous tree, onlj tnfloresc le puberulous. Leaflets M>, shining 



