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XXXIX. SAPINDACEjE 



' Mischocarpus 



and finely reticulate on both surfaces, 6-15 in. long. Stamens 8, long ex- 

 serted. Disk hairy. Ovary hairy, style 2-3-fid. Fr. obovoid, with the stalk 

 \ in. long. 



Manipur, among the oaks at 4,000 ft., Chittagong hill tract, Pegu, Tenasserim, 

 Cochinchina, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Fl. Jan.-May. 2. M. sundaicus, 

 Blume (Cupania Lessertiana, Carnb.). South Andaman, Mergui, Malaya. Closely 

 allied. Fr. truncately pyriform, J in. diam., while young sharply 3-angled. 3. 

 M. pentapetalus, Radlk. (Cupania sumatrana, Miq.). Silhet, Khasi hills. Closely 

 allied. Petals 5. Disk and stamens hairy. 



Arytera littoralis, Blume (Cupania aclenophylla, Planch. ; Kurz F. Fl. i. 285). Tenas- 

 serim, from Maulmein to Mergui, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. A small ever- 

 green tree. Branchlets thinly 

 rusty-puberulous. L. paripm- 

 nate, leaflets 2-3 pair, coriace- 

 ous, glabrous, sec. n. conspicu- 

 ous beneath, reticulate veins 

 obscure. Fl. pentamerous. 

 Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 

 petals broadly cuneate, emar- 

 ginate or bifid, pubescent above, 

 filaments long-exserted, hairy. 

 Capsule coriaceous, 2-lobed, the 

 lobes oblong, blunt. 



Zollingeria macrocarpa, Kurz 

 F . Fl . i 288. Dry forests of th e 

 Prome district (Wetkyut, 

 Burm.). A large deciduous 

 tree, young shoots tawny- 

 pubescent. L. imparipinnate, 

 leaflets alternate, entire, 5-8 

 in. long. Fl. bisexual, small, 

 white, in short mostly axillary 

 panicles, petals twice the length 

 of sepals, glabrous except the 

 villous base, filaments hairy. 

 Ovary slightly pubescent at 

 the base, 3-edged, 3-celled. Fr. 

 indehiscent, coriaceous, with 

 2 or 3 broad striated wings, 

 2 in. long. Cotyledons folded. 



7. FILICIUM, Thwaites; 

 Fl Brit. Ind. 539. 



(Species 3, Asia and Africa.) 



F. decipiens, Thw. ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 129.— 

 Rhus decipiens, "Wight 111. 

 t. 75. Vern. Ningal, Tarn. ; 

 Niroli, Mai. 



A middle-sized tree, leaf 

 scars large and prominent. 

 L. pinnate, leaflets 6-8 pair, 

 glabrous, shining, opposite 

 or some alternate, sessile, 

 linear oblong, 4-6 in. long, 

 midrib prominent, sec. n. 

 numerous, parallel. Hachis 

 with a leafy wing on either 

 side between the leaflets, 

 broad at top, narrowing 



Fk;. 85. — Filicium decijnens, Thw. 



