Filicium] XXXIX. SAPIXDAfE.E 189 



downwards. PI. small, numerous, unisexual, pentamerous, in erect narrow 

 axillary panicles. 6-8 in. long. Sepals narrowly imbricate, glabrous, per- 

 sistent, petals in J as long as calyx, iu 2 small. Disk very hairy. Ovary 

 globose. 2-celled, 1 ovule in each cell, style short, curved. Drupe ovoid, \ In. 

 diam., apiculate, purple, skiniug, seed 1, cotyledons much crumpled. 



Western Ghats from Malabar southwards. Fl. January. February. Ceylon, 

 eastern tropical Africa. This genus has been transferred by Radlkofer from 

 Burseracea to Sapinda 



8. LEPISANTHES, Bl. : Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 679, including 

 II, migyrosa, ib. 671 1. 



Trees or shrubs. L. alternate, pinuate. stipules 0, leaflets eutire, nearly 

 opposite, reticulate venation prominent. Fl. p ilygamons, 4-5-merous, in 

 racemes or cylindric racemiform panicles, the branches of which are bracteate. 

 short, ami of nearly equal length, bearing one or numerous flowers, sepals large, 

 concave, widely imbricate. Petals usually equal, each with 1 or -2 hairy scales 

 at the base. Ovary entire. 3-celled, ovules solitary in each cell. Fr. 3-celled. 

 Cotyledons thick, fleshy, obliquely superposed, albumen 0. Species Hi, Indo- 

 Bialayan region. 



A. Western species. 



1. L tetraphylla, Radlk. — Syn. Molinaca canesccns, P>xb. Cor. PI. t. 60; 

 He migyrosa canescens, Thwaites ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 151. Vein. Korivi, 

 Tel. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree, bark grey. Branchlets, petioles and inflores- 

 cence pubescent or tomentose. Leaflets nearly opposite, '2 pair, entire, blade 

 1-8, petiolule thick. ! in. long. Fl. white, iu racemes 3-5 in. long, either 

 fascicled, often on the oH wood, or arranged in terminal or axillary panicles, £ 

 petals 1. J pet, generally ■">. obovate, claw hairy, basal scales woolly, laciniate, 

 disk crenulate, one-side 1. Stamens s. unilateral, filaments hairy. Fr. 'I in.. 

 nous, greyish-velvety. 



Deccan ami east >i'h- of tin- Peninsula, also in the Konkau. Tenasserim. Fl. 

 Febr.-May. Ceylon. 2. L deflciens, lta-l)k. {Hemigyrosa deficiens, Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 



231 : Ajiamalais, Cochin, Tinevelli (Mints. A middle-sized or >mall ti dioecious. 



- I 7 pair. Fl. in narrow racemiform panicles, up to 24 in. long, with numerous 

 abort bracteate branches. 



B. Eastern species. 



:;. l. andamanica, Kin:;: Andaman*. Leaflets I 2 pair. Fl. \ in. diam., in compound 

 panicles, tin- ultimate branchlets J in. long with 1-3 flowers. I. L. burmanica, Kurz : 

 Pi j,: 'i i i southern and eastern slopes. Thaukyeghal aeai Toungoo. Hills between 



Sitang and Beeling rivers D.B. February, L862), Ajaevergi a tree, the trunk simple 



ami palmlike with few branches. Leaflets I 6 pair, coriaceous, s 12 iu.. petiolule thick 

 and -I !• >i-t . sec, n. and reticulate veins prominent beneath. PI. in compound panicles, 

 th^ ultimate branchlets ' :, in. long, many-fld. Fr. 1 in. long, obtus aered, 



slvel \ . 



SCHLEICHERA. Willd. : Fl. Brit. [nd. i. 681. 



S. trijuga, Willd. tl dy species ; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. II!': Brandis I-'. 



Fl. i. I'll. Vnii. Gkiusam, Kosam, Kusam, Hind.: Baru, Kol; Sagddi, 



Kan. 



A large deciduous tree, heartwood red or reddish-brown, very heavy, cl 

 grained, hard, tough and sti\>u:_ r . youngest slc>ts silky. L. paripinnate, 



leaflets i <p| >. >si t ■-. sessile, those of the lowest pair \-'.>. 01 the terminal pair 



6-9 in. long. PI. yellow, male and bisexual generally "ii different : 

 fascicled on interrupted often slender racemes. Calyx small, t-6-cleft, petals 0. 



