Xerospermum. | SAPINDACER, 295 
1. P. tomentosa, Bth. & H.f.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 691.—An ever- 
green tree (80—90+ 40—45 + 6—10), the shoots and younger parts 
rusty pubescent ; leaves abruptly or unpaired-pinnate, 1-3 ft. long, 
while young puberulous beneath, soon quite glabrous, the rachis 
rusty-pubescent, glabrescent; leaflets in 4-9 pairs, alternate or 
rarely the upper ones almost opposite, ovate-oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, 6-7 (in young trees 15-18) in. long, on short and thick 
rus 
base, remotely and irregularly serrate, acuminate, membranous, 
while young the midrib and the undere-surface puberulous, soon 
glabrescent, the lowest pair of leaflets almost orbicular and stipule- 
a uced ; flowers minute, racemose, in terminal and axilla 
rusty puberulous panicles ; fruits 1- or 2-lobed, the lobes elliptically 
oblong, smooth, the size of a plum. 
Has.—Very common in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fr. May- 
June.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood whitish, very light, and very coarsely fibrous, 
XEROSPERMUM, Bl. 
pilose, fleshy outside and arillus-like.—Trees, with pinnate or pin- 
nately 3-foliolate leaves. Flowers small, in almost simple axillary 
_ or terminal racemes. 
branches ; fruit-lobes 1 or 2, the shape and size of a plum, coria- 
ceous, densely muricate. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
PANCOVIA, Willd. 
(Erioglossum, Bl.) 
.__ Flowers more or less irregular, polygamous. Sepals 5, broadly 
umbricate. Petals 4, shortly clawed, with a hooded scale inside, 
