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x Capsule membranous or chartaceous. Flowers regular, the sepals 

 free. Leaves pinnate, alternate. 

 Harpullia. Petals 'without scales, but sometimes with in flexed lobes at the base of 

 the blade. Stigma linear, often twisted. Capsule didymously 2-lobed, chartaceous, 

 not winged. Seeds arillate. 

 Zollixgeria. Petals with a woolly scale. Stigma 3-toothed. Capsule by maceration 

 of the cell-walls often 1-celled, 3- or rarely 2-winged, chartaceous. Seeds without 

 arillus. 



x x Capsule thick or fleshy-coriaceous. Flowers irregular, the 

 calyx tubular or bell-shaped. Leaves digitate, opposite. 

 .ZEsculus. Flowers rather showy. Stigma simple. 



Turpinia, Vent. 

 Conspectus of species. 



Leaves apiculate to abruptly acuminate ; flowers about 2 lin. across ; fruits the size of 

 a cherry, firmly fleshy, T. porn if era. 



Leaves almost caudate ; flowers minute, about a line across : fruits the size of a small 

 pea, T. montana. 



1. T. pomifbba, DC. Prod. II. 3 ; Hf. Ind. I. 698 ^.—(Dalrym- 

 plea pomifera, Eoxb. Corom. PL III. 276. t. 279. and Fl. Ind. I. 633 ; T. 

 sphcerocarpa, Hassk. Cat. Bog. 228 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1/2. 593). 



Hab. Frequent in the tropical forests of Pegu and still more so in 

 those of Martaban and Tenasserim ; also Chittagong. — Fl. Febr. ; Fr. C. S. 



2. T. Montana, (Zanthoxylon montanum, Bl. By dr. 218 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. 1/2. 670). 



Vae. a. genuina, panicles very slender and lax, as long or longer than 

 the leaves, the ultimate branchings almost filiform. 



Yae. f3. Nepalensis, {T-wp. Nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 4277, non WA. ; 

 T. pomifera var. Nepalensis, Laws, in Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 699), panicles shorter 

 and more compact, stiff. 



Hab. Var. ft. frequent in the hill-forests, especially the drier ones, 

 and the pine-forests of Martahan, at 3000 to 7200 ft. elevation. — Fl. 

 March. 



Dodonsea, L. 



1. D. viscosa, L. Mant. alt. 228 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 697.— (Z>. angws- 

 tifolia, L. f. Suppl. 218 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 256 ; D. dioica, Eoxb. 1. c. ; 

 D. Burmanniana, DC. Prod. I. 616 ; Wight 111. t. 52 ; D. pentandra, 

 Griff. Not. Dicot. 548). 



Hab. Sandy beaches of the sea-shores of Tenasserim, from Amherst to 

 Mergui ; also Andamans, Narcondam Island. — Fr. Febr. March. 



