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glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Flowers white, '35 in. long. Capsule 

 ^'lobose or pyriform, mucli inflated, veined, "75 to 1*25 in. broad. 

 W. & A. Prodr. i, i09 ; Wall. Cat. 8080 ; Griff. Notul. lY, 546 ; Ic. Pi. 

 Asiat. lY, t. 599, f . 3 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 34 ; Wight Ic. t. 508 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 54 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 292 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1049 j Grab, 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 285 Boiss. Fl. Orient. I, 945 ; Bentli. Fl. Austral. I, 453 ;• 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. FJ. Br, Ind. I, 670. G. viicrocarpum, H. B. K. Nov. 

 Gen. & Sp. PI. Y, 104 ; Baker I. c. 418, with syn.— Rheede Hort. MaL 

 YIII, Y, 28 ; Rumph. Herb. Amboin. YI, t. 24, f. 2. 



In all the provinces^ but usually only iiear settlements. Distrib, 

 British India, Ceylon, and most tropical countries. 



A form of this with rather small and ob-deltoid capsules has been 

 kept up as a species by some authors under the name C. microcarpum, 

 H. B. K. ; but, as there are innumerable gradations from the globular 

 capsule besides much difference in size, I do not consider that it deserves 

 even varietal rank. The allied species C. canescens, Wall, grows in the 

 south of India and in Burmah along with this, but is always dis- 

 tinguishable by its more bluntly lobed leaflets cauescent beneath. 



2. Allophylus, Linn. 



Erect shrubs or trees. I/eaves alternate, exstipulate, 1- to 3-foliolate. 

 Bacemes simple or branched, axillary. Flowers irregular, small, poly- 

 gamo-dioecious, globose, sub-sessile. Sepals 4, in pairs, much imbricate, 

 concave, unequal. Petals 4, small, glabrous, with a villous emarginate 

 scale above the claw. Disc one-sided, with a gland opposite each 

 petal. Stamens 8, inserted inside the disc. Ovary 2-lobed, with 2 cells 

 and a solitary ovule in each. Style stout, stigma 2-3-lobed. Fruit 

 bi-coccous (usually one suppressed), ovoid, epicarp dry and coriaceous. 

 Seed with a small fleshy arillus, embryo curved, cotyledons plicate. 

 DiSTRiB : — about twenty-five species all tropical and mostly American. 



Allophylus Cobbb, Bhime Rumphia III, 131. A small tree 

 or shrub ; young branches glabrous to tomentose. Leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute or acuminate, remotely 

 serrate or almost entire, rarely crenate, the base cuneate often 

 oblique and always entire : upper surface glabrous to sparsely pubes- 

 cent, the lower glaberulous to tomentose ; length 1 to 10 in., breadth 

 •5 to 4 in. ; lateral petiolules '2 to '3 in., the central twice as long 

 or longer. Inflorescence 3 to 9 in. long ; the flowers small, yellow- 

 ish or whitish, on short pedicels. Fruit globose, '25 in. in diam., 

 red, shii)ing. Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 673: Kurz For. 

 Flora, Burma. I, 299. Blms Coble, Linn. Sp. PL ed. I, 267. Orni- 

 trophe Cobbe, Willd. Sp. PI. II, 322 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 268. Usubis 



