Harpullia. ] SAPINDACER. 287 
HARPULLIA, Roxb. 
Flowers regular, - Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, 
without any scale, but sometimes wit th basal inflexed auricles 
Stamens 5-8, inserted within: the conspicuous disk. Ovary 2-celled, 
with 2 ovules in each cell ; ; style short or elongate and spirall 
twisted. Capsule coriaceous or chartaceous, somewhat com pean 
2-or rarely. by abortion 1-lobed, the lobes inflated, loculicidally 2- 
valved. Seeds with or without arillus, Cotyledons thick. —Trees, 
with pinnate leaves. Flowers rather small or middling-sized, 
panicled. 
3 1. H, cupanioides, Boxh, H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 692 (H. imbricata, 
: Bl.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 158) —A tree (80—90+50—60 + 6— 
| 14), evergreen or in drier tracts shedding leaves im the H.S., the 
younger parts tawny puberulous ; leaves pinnate ; the rachis slightly 
puberulous ; 3 leaflets 6-8 in. long, alternate, on short but slender 
petiolules, in 3 to 7 pairs, somewhat obhqeety oblong or elliptically 
lanceolate, usually Sbigas at the acute base, bluntish acuminate, 
cerns, membranous, puberulous on the principal nerves, soon gla ab- 
= 3 sepals broadly oblong blunt, ae es tome tose 
eae in the tropical forests of the PRR also Chittagong.— 
Fi. i une.—s.— S8,=SiS. 
DODON AA, L. 
Flowers often dicecious or polygamous. Sepals 5, rarely fewer, 
eevee Pee none, Disk small or obsolete. Stamens usually 
8, sometimes fewer, rarely 10; filaments very short. 
(rarely 5-6) -celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Capsule membranous 
or coriaceous, opening loculicidally in as many valves as cells, usually 
win Seeds funi Embryo spirally curled.—Shrubs, with 
simple, entire, or rarely lobed leaves, the young shoots usually sticky. 
Flowers s mall, 
l. D. viscosa, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 697; Bedd. Sylv. ee 75, t. 
IL; £2; Puta For. “Fl. 113.—A shrab, ‘the cornered branches and 
— = ie leaves bar tay from ovate lanceolata to 
almost 
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