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3. DiTTELASMA, Hook. fil. 



A tree. Leaves alternate, pinnate, exstipnlate ; leaflets subopposite 

 or alternate, entire. Panicles terminal, bracteate. Flowers poljgamo- 

 monoecious. Sepals 5, oblong, rounded at tie apex, unequal. Petals 4, 

 erect, oblong, concave, tomentose outside, tlie place of the fifth vacant ; 

 scale large obovate-oblong, densely shaggy-crested, incurved at the apex. 

 Disc semilunate-annular, much wider at one side, glabrous. Stamens 

 8, inserted around the base of the ovary, unequal ; Jilametits villous, 

 slender at the tip ; anthers small, shortly exserted. Ovary sub-globose, 

 glabrous, 3-lobed, 3-celled, contracted at the apex into a short erect style, 

 stigma shortly 3-lobed ; ovule solitary in each cell. Fruit 1-3-coccous, 

 2 segments usually smaller or obsolete, rather fleshy, indehiscent. Seed 

 globose, exarillate, exalbuminous ; testa thick, bony ; embryo curved ; 

 cotyledons large, unequal, incurved ; radicle short, incumbent. — DiSTitiB. 

 A single species. 



DiTTELASMA Rarak, Hook. fil. in Benth. and Hook. fil. Gen. 

 Plantar. T, 396. A tree 50 or 60 feet high ; young branches stout,'vvith 

 pale puberulous bark, ieaves ]0 to 18 in. long; leaflets 6 to 12 pairs, 

 usually oblong-lanceolate, rarely oblong-oblanceolate, often slightly ob- 

 lique, the apex acute, the base cuneate, quite glabrous ; main nerves 

 numerous, faint ; length 3 to 4 in., breadth '75 to 1'5 in., petiolule '1 in. 

 or less. Panicles terminal, erect, many-branched, puberulous, usually 

 shorter than the leaves. Flowers '2 in. long, pale yellow or white. 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 672 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 297. 

 Sapindus Earah, DC. Prodr. I, 608 ; Blume Rumph. III. 93, t. 197. 

 ? ;S'. pinnatus, Mill. Gard. Diet. No. 3. S. sapo7iaria, Lour. FI. 

 Cochinch. 238 (not of Linn.) — Humph. Herb. Amboin. II, 1.84. 



Malacca : Griffith, Maingay. — Distrib. Burma, Cochin-China, Java. 



4. Erioglossum, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves unequally-pinnate, exstipulate, alternate. 

 Leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire. Panicles terminal, erect, with 

 elongated racemose branches. Flowers polygamo- dioecious, irregular, 

 white. Sepals 5, unequal, orbicular, concave, imbricated, the two outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, unequal, obovate, clawed, the place of the 5th 

 vacant; scale hairy, hooded, with an apical lobed appendage. Disc one- 

 sided, lobed. Stamens 8, turned to one side ; filaments unequal, hairy, 

 anthers sub-exserted. Ovary stipitate, obcordate, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; style 

 slender, stigma obscurely 3-lobed ; ovules solitary in the cells of the 

 ovary, ascending. Fruit 1-3-lobed to the base ; the lobes oblong, inde- 

 hiscent, diverging. Seed^ oblong, exarillate, exalbuminous, testa mem- 



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