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teolate at the base, puberulous. Flowers numerous near the ends of 

 the branches, *15 in. in diam., greenish- white. Calyx with 5 deep 

 oblong obtuse lobes, puberulous or glabrescent. Petals oblong, longer 

 than the calyx, puberulous. Stamens about as long as the petals, the 

 filaments glabrous. Ovary broadly ovoid, furrowed, almost separable 

 into 3 loculi, glabrous, tapering into the stout stylar column. Fruit 

 globose, with fleshy smooth pericarp, slightly trigonous, 3-celled, 3- 

 seeded. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 593 ; Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. I, 698 : Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 292 ; Wall. Cat. 4276. 

 Lalrymplea pomifera, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 17 ; Cor. PL t. 299 ; Fl. Ind. I, 

 633. T. nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 4277 ; W. and A. Prodr. 156 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 972; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 3 59; Thwaites Enum. 71. T. microcarpa, 

 W. and A. Prodr. 156. T. martabanica, Wall. Cat. 4278. T. latifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 4939. Canarium Sajiga, Ham. ex W. and A. Prodr. 175. — 

 Wall. Cat. 8104. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 4243. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 

 British India. 



Var. sphaerocarpa, King. Leaflets broadly ovate or ovate-rotund, 

 only slightly and shortly acuminate. Panicles often longer than the 

 leaves. Fruit not more than about "5 or "6 in. in diam., depressed. 

 Turpinia sphaerocarpa, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bat. Bogor. 228; Flora Vol. 

 XXY (1842), Bibl. II, p. 42 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. II, 593. 

 Turpinia latifolia, Wall. Cat. No. 4939. Lalrymplea javanica, Hassk. 

 PL Jav. Rar. 439. 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars. 



This is the common form in the Malayan Provinces. 



Order XXXV. — Sabiacej;. 



Climbing or erect shrubs or erect trees, glabrous or with simple 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, simple or compound. Flowers 

 small or minute, hermaphrodite or polygamous, usually panicled. Calyx 

 4-5-partite, imbricate. Petals 4-5, equal or unequal, opposite or alter- 

 nate with the sepals, imbricate. Disc usually small, annular. Stamens 

 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the base of or on the disc, all 

 perfect or two only perfect and three without anthers ; filaments clavate, 

 flattened or subulate ; anthers didymous, cells distant bursting trans- 

 versely or by a deciduous cap. Ovary 2-3-celled, compressed or 2-3- 

 lobed ; styles 2-3, free or connate, or 0, stigmas punctiform ; ovules 1-2 

 in each cell. Ripe carpels 1-2, dry or fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds com- 

 pressed or globose, basilar, hilum broad, testa membranous or coriaceous, 

 albumen ; embryo various, cotyledons often contorted, radicle deflexed. 

 Distrib. A small chiefly Indian order, with 4 genera and about 35 species. 

 J. ii, 58 



