Wriofflossum.] XLiv. sapindace^. (W. P. Hiern.) 673 



SikKim fiiMALAYA, AssAM, Oddh, Eastehn t'ENiSsutA, from BirmS, to Penang and 

 Malacca, Western Peninsula from the Godavery southwards. — Distiub. Widely spread 

 o»er the Indian Archipelago, and N.W. coast of Anetralia. 



A large timber tree or shrub, with the shoots petioles and inflarfeacsnoe ferruginous- 

 pubescent. Leaves about 1-2 ft. ; leaflets 3-15 py 1-34 ™- Flowers sweet-scented, 

 shortly pedicelled in small clusters, on elongated spike-like racemes, arranged in a 

 panicle. PruU ^ iri. — Wood useful, strong, and durable, chocolate coloured in the 

 centre. In Linnaeus' Herbarium this species is named SwpinSiaa Saponaria. 



5. AXiXiOFKYI.US, ];jinn. 



' Small trees or shrubs. Leaves 1- or 3-foliolate, exstipulate, leaflets entire 

 dr serrate. Bdcemes simple or branched axillary. Flowers small, polygamo- 

 dioeciouSj globo'se, shortly pedicelled, white or yellowish. Sepals, 4 in 

 opposite pairs, hooded, membranous, ■wridely imbricated; the two outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, the place of the 5th vacant, small (or obsolete^ 

 sometimes declinate, naked inside or usually furnished with a shaggy scale 

 above t^e claw. Didc one-sided, usually with 4 glands opposite the petals. 

 Stamens 8, inserted on the receptacle inside the disk. , Ovary usually 

 2-lobed and 2-celled : ovules in the cells solitary. Fruit indehiscent 

 Usually l-!J-lobed ; lobes subglobose, fleshy or dry. See^s usually with a 

 short fleshy aril ; embryo curved ; cotyledons plicate. — -Disteib. A large 

 chiefly tropical American genus ; aljoui 12 species occur in tropical Africa, 

 others in South Africa, the Mascarine Islands, Mada;gascb,r, &c., and several 

 in the Indian Archipelago. 



Sect. I. Leaves unifoliolat6. 



1. A. zeylanlcus, Linn. Nov. PI. Gen. in Amoen. Acad. i. 398 (1747); 

 leaves unifoliolate ovate oblong or obovate more or less acuminate, racemes 

 simple or slightly branched. Schmidelia Allophylus, BG. Prodr. i. 611. 

 Am. in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xviiL 326 ; Thwaites Enum. 65; Bedd. Ic. PI. 

 Ind. Or. t. 286. S. bidentata, Wall. Gat. 8062. OmitrOphe AllophyluS, 

 Pm. Syn. PI. i. 412. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 1-3000 ft. Assam. CachA». Ceylon. 



A shrub or small tree with terete branches. Leaves 14-16 by 4-7| in. ; petioles |-3 

 in. Bournes J-9 in. Flowers i%-J in. diam. Fruit globose, red.^A variable spe- 

 cies, the principal forms of which may be indicated as follows ; iritettnediate forms exist 

 in some cases. - 



Vah. 1. acuminata ; glabrous, leaves quite entire ovate, racemes rather long. S. 

 acuminata, Thwaites Enum. 55 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. i. 2g7.^Ceylori: 



Vae. 2. assamica; glabrous, leaves quit^ entire oblong, racemes short.^-ABsart. _ 

 ' Vab. 3. hispida; branches midrib and margins of leaf hispid. S. Mspidaj Thwaites, 

 \.c.; Bedd.FlSylv. t. 162.— Cejhu. ., , ^ ■: 



Yak. 4. varians; leaves small obovate toothed widely repand dsnticolale subooni- 

 ceous, raceines rather elongated. S. viiriansj ThwUites Mwwm. 408 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. t. 288. - . ' J . , 



?AH. 5. Thwaitesii; leaves 6-10 in. obovate toothed widely repind denticulate or 

 toothed subdoriaoeous,. racemes short. — Ceylon, • j . i 



Vae. 6. grandifolia; leaves obovate toothed or widely repfttid denticalatSj Hubmem- 

 branous. Schmidelia, sp. 10, Herh. Ind. Or. H.f. & T.— Sikkim, Assam, Cachar. 



Sect. II. Leaves trif oUolate. 



2.- A. Cobbe, Blume Rumph. iii. 131 ; leaves trifoliolate, leaflets obovate 

 ovate or lanceolate mostly acuminate hairy or glabrous subcoriaceous entire 

 dentate or serrate, racemes simple, flowers itregular, petals sometimes 

 decimate. Ehus Oobbe, lAmn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 267. Omitrophe Cobbe,^ 



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