320 ANACARDIACER, [ Tapiria. 
rusty or tawny villous or pubescent terminal large panicles ; petals 
obovate, about a line long; drupes compressed-orbicular, the size of 
a —_ pmenes white, peated clammy, and while young 
— ; 
ee t a in the hill Eng forests and drier hill forests of Maras 
ay at t 3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation; also Ava.—FIL. Sept.-Oct.; Fr. Apr.— 
SS.=Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood greyish white, soft and light. 
R. Khasiana, H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 10.—A large tree; leaves 1- 
ve fi long, Enpaired-pinnate, the petiole terete, very slender, soft, 
pubescent towards the tip; leaflets in 8-12 pairs, obliquely lanceo- 
late, almost sessile, ah fe at the base, 3-4 in. long, incised-ser- 
rate, long-acuminate, membranous, hairy chiefly on the very slender 
nerves beneath; flowers unknown; drupes 2} in. in diameter, in 
open panicles, orbicular-ovate . pedicelled, compressed, the epicarp 
papery, pale-coloured, irregularly torn, exposing a fibrous endocarp. 
—(From Hooker’s Ind. FI.) 
Has.—Chittagong. 
TAPIRIA, Juss. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate. Petals 5, 
enbetents Stamens 10, ‘inserted at the base of the 5-lobed rather 4 
road disk; anthers globular. Ovary in the males immersed in the 3 
— 4.-5-lobed with as many styles, in the females free, half-im- 
with a solitary ovule suspended from the ieee of the 
anny of the cell; style short, conical. Drupe fleshy, containing 
crustaceous 1-seeded putamen .—Trees or shrubs, erect or ‘scandal 
with alternate pinnate leaves. Flowers minute, in axillary an 
=— 
all parts more or less soos sat leaves unpaired-pinnate, shortly 
petioled, the rachis hirsute ; leaflets usually i in 6 pairs with 5S odd 
y acuminate, serrate, m oe bissnte or 
short hairs, the midrib dete Bend hirsute ; flowers minute. s 
on 1-14 lin. long capillary glabrous pedicels, eymulose and forming 
very slender axillary and terminal hirsute panicles longer than the 
leaves ; petals ovate, acute, about 3 lin. long ; disk yellow, She 
ovaries 5, connate, but t the upper parts with the styles free, 
abortive but one ; drupes the size of a large pea, cones! oblong 
or ovoid-kidney-shaped, fleshy, red, marked with 4 irregularly 
disposed a oe abortive Ovaries). 
