Sh AA eee ee 
- Lurpinia.] SAPINDACER. 291 
Leaves slightly puberulous on the midrib beneath; pedicels 14-2 
lin, lon 
ong, poocad acale of petals densely white-villous fringed Z, Burmanica, 
Leaves quite gla 3 pedicels  . stout, ae + lin. Jong ae 
petals inside a i yeals glabrous - ZL. montana. 
1. L, Burmanica, Kz. (Z. montane, Him. H.f. Ind. Fi. i. 
679, and Kurz Prel. Rep., Pegu, A.-38, not Bl.). —An evergreen tree 
(20—25 + 15—20 + 12), the trank sim ee and palm-like, not or 
almost not branched, the shoots puberulous; bark a line thick, 
smooth, minute ely and longitudinally fissured, greyis sh-brown ; cut 
dry, pale-coloured ; leaves 2-3 ft. long, abruptly pinnate, the rachis 
half-terete, slightly channelled ; leaflets almost his ed ser fo 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the base, very shortly petioluled, 
acute, chartaceous, entire, glabrous or slightly puberulous on the 
midrib beneath ; flowers in large terminal and axillary tawny 
puberulous racemes forming a large terminal panicle ; ; fruits on a 
short and thick peduncle, obtusely 3-4-lobed, the size ‘of a bullet, 
seth densely tawny tomentose, the cell-walls inside mottled, but 
—Not uncommon in the tropical forests of the eastern and southern 
ie of the wee ted me = as ae up to 2,000 ft. elevation —Fr. 
Sree Sis. mM 
aes musa white, nn os fibrous but close-grained, soon 
stacked by xylophages. 
2. L. montana, Bl. (L. gAryuenes Hiern. ; H.f. Ind. Fi. ii. 
680).—A oa evergreen tree, all arts glabrous: leaves 14-24 ft. 
long, on a rather slender petiole e t ft. long ; leaflets in 7-11 pairs, 
alternate or sometimes opposite, elliptically oblong to oblong and 
linear-oblong, cuneate at the base, on meena a up to 4 
m. long, acuminate, 4-9 in. long, chartaceous, gla ; flowers 
rather largish, white, on very stout pedicels about da age long, 
forming short and dense puberulous racemes arising usually in clus- 
ters or almost singly from the axils of the leaves ; petals inside and 
e glabrous ; fruits trigonously ovoid, the size of a wood-apple, 
puberulous, stylose-acuminate. 
Has 
-—Tenasserim. 
TURPINIA, Vent. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-cleft, imbricate, 
persistent, Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted outside to | 
the base of the crenate or lobed disk. Ovary 3-lobed and B.colled, 
with several (usually 6-8) an anaizopous ascen one ovules in each cell ; 
bumin: ith 
pinnate or rarely 1-foliolate leaves, the gir serrulate. Flowers 
small, in panicles. : 
