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12. HARPULLIA, Eoxb. 

 (Name of a species of Chittagong.) 

 Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, without any 

 scale, but sometimes with inflected auricles at the base of the lamina. Disk 

 inconspicuous. Stamens 5 to 8. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; 

 style short, or elongated and spirally twisted. Capsule coriaceous, somewhat 

 compressed, with 2 turgid lobes opening loculicidally in 2 valves. Seeds 1 or 2 

 in each cell, with or without an arillus ; cotyledons thick. — Trees. Leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets usually large, the primary veins prominent underneath. Flowers 

 in loose terminal little-branched panicles, sometimes reduced to simple racemes. 

 Capsules usually large, red or orange-coloured. 



Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, there are two or three others, natives of 

 tropical Asia or Madagascar. — Benth. 

 Calyx persistent. Petals not auriculate. 

 An erect single-stemmed shrub. Leaf rhachis winged. Leaflets entire . . \. H. frutescens. 

 A small tree. 



Petiole winged. Leaflets coarsely toothed ■ . . . . 2. H. alata. 



Petiole not winged. Leaflets entire. Leaflets coriaceous, very obtuse . . 3. H. Hillii. 

 Calyx deciduous. Petals with inflected auricles i. H. 



1. H. frutescens (shrub-like), Bail. Eep. Bellenden Ker Exped., 1889. A 

 slender usually single-stemmed shrub, so far as observed never attaining more 

 than 5ft., slightly rusty-pubescent. Leaf-rhachis prominently winged to the 

 base, and extending beyond the last pinnae ; pinnee nearly opposite, sessile, 

 lanceolate, with attenuated poinns, 4 to Sin. long, 1|- to 2|^in. wide in the centre, 

 membranous, of a dark green and always quite entire. Inflorescence a terminal 

 erect panicle with but a few short branches near the base, the female or hermaph- 

 rodite flowers near the base, the end or upper ones male, white and fragrant, on 

 short pedicels ; sepals imbricate, 4 or 5, linear-obtuse, 3 or 4 lines long, rusty- 

 tomentose. Petals 4, lanceolate, 6 or 7 lines long, recurved. Stamens 7 or 8, 

 nearly as long as the petals, surrounded by a ring of short, erect, obtuse glands. 

 Capsule 2 or 3-celled, forming spreading lobes l^in. wide and lin. deep, the 

 outside clothed with a deep crimson tomentum, 2 seeds in each cell, enveioped in a 

 cup -shaped yellow arillus. 



Hab.: Bellenden Ker, at an altitude of over 2000ft., and very frequently met with in the scrubs 

 bordering the rivers on the lower lands of Hie district, Bellenden Ker Exped., 1889. In Fragm. 

 ix. 89, July, 1875, Baron von Mueller notices a plant, probably this, aa occurring at Eockingham 

 Bay, as S. alata, F. v. M., having entire leaflets and flowering as a shrub. I have, however, 

 during my recent visit to Bellenden Ker, made a point of hunting for any plant of the species 

 with serrated leaflets, or that attains the size of even a large shrub, and, having failed, thint it 

 better to give this northern plant speciflc rank. 



2. H. alata (winged), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 103 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 470. A 

 tall tree, the young branches and panicles minutely tomentose, otherwise glabrous. 

 Leaflets usually 6 to 10, oblong elliptical or lanceolate, acutely acuminate and 

 coarsely toothed, almost lobed, 3 to 6in. long, or more in the large leaves of 

 barren shoots, rather rigid, green and much veined on both sides, the common 

 petiole broadly winged. Panicles short, loose. Flowers few, larger than in the, 

 other species, on short pedicels. Sspals persistent, about 3 lines long, shortly 

 tomentose. Petals about 4 lines long, oblong-cuneate, narrowed at the base, and 

 not auricled. Stamens 7 or 8, about as long as the sepals in the males, shorter 

 in the females. Capsule 1 to Ifin. broad, coriaceous, nearly glabrous inside. 

 Seeds enveloped in a yellowish arillus. 



Hab.: Southern scrubs. 



3. H. Hillii (after W. Hill), F. v. M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 26, and Fragm. 

 ii. 104 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i 470. A tree of 60 to 80ft., the young branches and 

 inflorescence rusty with a close tomentum, otherwise glabrous. Leaflets usually 



