296 SAPINDACER. [ Dittelasma, 
Disk one-sided, lobed. Stamens 8; filaments short. Ovary 
lobed, 3-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell. Fruit fleshy.oF or 
coriaceous, divided into 1-3 indehiscent lobes or rarely 1-lobed by 
abortion. Seeds oblong, without arillus. Cotyledons thick.—Trees, 
with pinnate leaves. — comparatively rather large, in ter- - 
minal and axillary panic 
Sepals rotundate, blunt, petals ka rounded, the scale hooded . P, se 
Sepals o soe neeolate; petals elongate-cuneate, the scale 2-cleft , P. tomen: 
a rubi, exe er (Z. rubiginosum, Brand. For. FI. 108; 
E. sa BL; rn ¥3 FL 672; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madr. 73).— 
Tseih-chay —An ena tree (25—80 +8—15 +2—8}), all softer 
parts more or less softly tawny pubescent ; bark 2-3 lin. thick, 
qpitioclite-ronigh; greyish, peeling off in irregular i flakes ; 
cut reddish ; leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets in 6-4 pairs, almost 
opposite, oblong-lanceolate, about 4-5 in. long, shortly iat 
more or less acuminate, entire, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; - | 
flowers rather small, white, shortly pedicelled, racemose, forming | 
an ample — or tawny tomentose terminal panicle ; sepals coria- oe 
ceous, pubescent; petals somewhat longer, ayes ‘with a woolly gE 
scale ; style saat slender ; berries often by threes or fewer by = 
— oblong, the size of a small bean, smooth, purplish black, a 
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Has.—Frequent in the tropical, rare in the moister mixed forests, from Pegu 
and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. | 
May-June.—s x 1. woe peak perede = 2 
REMAR Wood white or pale-coloured = pinkish brown heart-wood, a ; 
strong eck iste Adapted for house-buildin: ie 
2. P. tomentosa (Sapindus aac Kz.).—Probably a tree, _ 
all softer parts pubescent ; p Mares pubescent or shortly tomentose, 
abruptly pinnate; leaflets in 4 to 3 pairs, obliquely ovate-oblong, 
shortly petioluled, 4-5 in. bee: acute at the unequal base, acumi- 
nate or acute, entire, chartaceous, glabrous except on the nerves 
sth sd and a ensely tomentose beneath ; ae shortly 
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blade obovate, bearing at the middle a 2-cleft scale oe woolly 
inside ; filaments long-pilose ; style simple, sanannient 
drupes uncled, 2- or by abortion usually 1-lobed, stylose- 
acuminate, l-seeded ; seed erect ; radicle linear, straight. 
Has.—Ava, Khakhyen hills. 
DITTELASMA, Hf. 
wers irregular, polygamousl a Sepals 5, broadly 
ein Petals 4, with a large sca 4 ene Disk half-ereseen . 
annular, glabrous, "Wisiens 8; Sewcants Ovary glab- 
