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XXXIX. SAPINDACE^ 



[Schleichera 



Stamens 6-8, longer than calyx, filaments more or less hairy, disk flat undu- 

 late. Ovary 3-4-celled, style rigid, stigma sometimes capitate, 3-4-cleft, one 

 erect ovule in each cell. Fr. 1 in. long, usually echinate, seeds 1 or 2, testa 

 "brown, enclosed in a succulent arillus of pleasantly acid taste, cotyledons full 

 of oil. 



Subhirnalayan tract, from the Sutlej eastward, ascending to 3,000 ft., Central 

 Provinces, Western Peninsula. Burma, on the Shan plateau to 5,000 ft. (Collett). Not 

 gregarious, singly or a few together, mixed with the other trees of the deciduous 

 forest. The old leaves are shed January, February, the young foliage comes out 

 towards the end of March or early in April, while the other trees of the dry forest are 

 still leafless, the young shoots deep red. PI. with the young leaves. Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



Xerospermum murieatum, Eadlk. (X. noronhianum, Kurz ; P. PI. i. 295, not of BL) 

 Tenasserim. A small evergreen tree. Leaflets 1 or 2 pair, reticulate veins conspicuous. 

 Fl. small, in slender axillary often fasciculate racemes, sepals 4, imbricate, the outer 

 smaller, petals 4, scales 0. Ovary 2-celled, style 1, short, fruiting carpels densely 

 muricate. 



Fig. 86. — Sapindus laurifolius, Vahl. J. 



10. SAPINDUS, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 682., excluding Aphania, but 

 including Dittelasma, I.e. 671. 



Trees. L. alternate, paripinnate. occasionally unifoliolate, stipules 0. Fl. 

 c? and J 1 . Sepals 5, unequal, petals 4 or 5, nearly equal, disk fleshy, circular 

 or one-sided. Stamens usually 8, filaments hairy, anthers versatile. Ovary 

 3-lobed, 1 ovule in each cell, style 1. Fr. coriaceous or fleshy, consisting 



