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glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Flowers white, '15 in. long. Capsule 

 globose or pyriform, much inflated, veined, "75 to 1'2S in. broad- 

 W. & A. Prodr. I, 109 ; Wall. Cat. 8030 ; Griff. Noful. IV, 546 ; Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. IV, t. 599, f. 3 j Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 34 ; Wight Ic. t. ■ 

 Tliwaites Enum. 54; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 292 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1049; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 28; Boiss. Fl. Orient. I, 945; Benth. Fl. Austral. I, 453'; 

 Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 670. G. microcarpum, H. B. K. Nov. 

 Gen. &Sp. PI. V, 104; Baker I. t. 418, with syn.— Rheede Sort. Mai. 

 VIII, V, 28 ; Rumph. Herb. Amboin. VI, t. 21, f. 2. 



In all the provinces, but usually only near settlements. DlSTBIB. 

 British India, Ceylon, and most tropical countries. 



A form of this with rather small and ob-deltoid capsules has been 

 kept up as a species by some authors under the name G. microcarpum, 

 H. B. K. ; but, as there are innumerable gradations from the globular 

 capsule besides much difference in size, I do not consider that it deserves 

 even varietal rank. The allied species G. canescens, Wall, grows in the 

 south of India and in Burmah along with this, but is always dis- 

 tinguishable hy its more bluntly lobed leaflets canescent beneath. 



2. Allophtlus, Linn. 



Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 1- to 3-foliolate. 

 Racemes simple or branched, axillary. Flowers irregular, small, poly- 

 gamo-dioecious, globose, sub-sessile. Sepals 4, in pairs, much imbricate, 

 concave, unequal. Petals 4, small, glabrous, with a villous emarginate 

 scale above the claw. Disc one-sided, with a gland opposite each 

 petal. Stamens 8, inserted inside the disc, Ovary 2-lobed, with 2 cells 

 and a solitary ovule in each. Style stout, stigma 2-3-lobed. Fruit 

 bi-coccous (usually one suppressed), ovoid, epicarp dry and coriaceous. 

 Seed with a, small fleshy arillus, embryo curved, cotyledons plicate. 

 Dis'tbib : — about twenty-five species all tropical and mostly American. 



Allophylus Cobbe, Blume Rumphia III, 131. A small tree 

 or shrub ; young branches glabrous to tomentose. Leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute or acuminate, reinott-ly 

 serrate or almost entire, rarely crenate, the base cuneate often 

 oblique and always entire: upper surface glabrous to sparsely pubes- 

 cent, the lower glaberulous to tomentose ; length 1 to 10 in., breadth 

 '5 to 4 in. ; lateral petiolules "2 to "3 in., the central twice as long 

 or longer. Inflorescence 3 to 9 in. long; the flowers small, yellow- 

 ish or whitish, on short pedicels. Fruit globose, "25 in. in diam., 

 red, shining. Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 673 : Kurz For. 

 Flora, Burma, I, 299. Rhus Cobbe, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I, 267. Orui- 

 trophe Cobbe, Willd. Sp. PI. II, 322; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 268. Usubis 



