XLiv. SAPiNDACEiE. (W. P. Hiern.) 675 



6. SSCVLVS, Liun. 



Trees and shrubs with scaly buds. Leaves opposite, digitate, deciduous, 

 ^exstipulate ; leaflets obovate or oblong, serrate. Panicles terminal, thyrsoid. 

 Flowers large, polygamous, irregular. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5- cleft 

 or -dentate, deciduous, with unequal imbricated lobes. Petals 4-5, unequal, 

 •clawed, without scales, imbricated, exceeding the calyx. Disk annular or 

 unilateral, lobed or entire. Stamens 5-8, usually 7, inserted witMn the 

 disk, free. Ovar^ sessile, 3-celled. Style elongated, slender ; stigma 

 simple. Ovules 2 in each ceU of the ovary, superposed. Fruit capsular, 

 1-3-celled ; valves loculicidal, coriaceous ; cells l-seeded. Seeds subglobose, 

 exalbuminous, with a br6ad hilum; testa coriaceous* cotyledons thick, 

 corrugctted, conferruminated.— Distrib. About 14 species, natives mostly 

 of the temperate parts of Asia and America. 



M. Hippocastanum, Linn., ia said to te indigenous in North India, but it is not 

 now known in the wild state. See Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 497. 



1. ffi. (Pavia) indica, Cdebr. in Wall. Cat. 1188; leaflets usually 7 

 acuminate delicately serrate submembranous distinctly petioluled, panicles 

 oblong nearly equalling or exceeding the leaves, flowers secund. Vamh. in 

 Jaeq. Voy. Bot. 31, t. 35 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5117 ; Brand. Far. Fl. 103, t. 19 ; 

 Royk lU. 135 ; Stew. Punjab PL 31. 



Westesn Himalaya, alt. 4-10,000 ft. from the Indus to Nipal. — Distrib. Affgha- 

 nistan. 



A fine tree of 60-70 ft. in height and 10-15 in girth, with glabrous terete branches. 

 Leaves glabrous ; leaflets unequal, the terminal one 5-9 by 1^-3 in., the lateral ones 

 smaller ; common petiole 3-6 in., thickened at the base, sulcate above ; petiolules' 

 ianging to f in. Calyx tubular, J in. long, frequently splitting as the flowers open ; 

 lobes short, rounded. Petals 4, white with red and yellow, the place of the fifth Tacaut. 

 Capsule ovoid or subpyriform, reddish-brown, without spines, rather rough, 1-2 in. long; 

 Seeds dark. — -The interior of the seeds is eaten in the Himalayas, according to Dr. 

 Eoyle, in time of famine ; cattle habitually eat them. The bark peels ofi"in long strips ; 

 the wood is light-coloured and easily worked. The fruit is officinal, being applied ex- 

 ternally fo)r rheumatism. The leaves are lopped for winter fodder in the Himalaya. 



2. Hi. (Pavia) punduana, Wall. Cat. 1189 ; leaflets 6-7 acuminate 

 delicately serrate subcoriaceous shortly petioled, panicles narrowly lan- 

 ceolate nearly equalling the leaves, lower pedicels longer. JE. asamicus, 

 Grif. -Jmirn. 69, 75, 80, 122. P. khassyana, Voigt Eort. Svh. Cole. 97. , •* 



Tkopioal Sjkkim Himalaya, /. D. H. Khasia Mts., ascending,to 4000 ft. Assam- 

 and BiEMA. — Distkib. Siam. 



- A tree with glabrous terete branches.. Leaves glabrous ; leaflets unequal, the ter- 

 minal one 8-15 by 2^-5 in., the lateral ones smaller; common petiole 7J-12 in. ; petio- 

 lule i-| in. €alyx tubular, \ in.; lobes short, rounded at apex. Petals 4, white >and 

 yellow. 



7. SCYPHOPETAXiUM, Hiern. 



A small tree. Leaves alternate exstipulate unequally pinnate; leaf- 

 lets opposite. Ficmers panicled, regular, hejpmaphrodite, 4-6-merpu8,, 

 Calyx deeply lobed, hemispherical ; lobes ovate, somewhat imbricated in 

 the bud. Petals shorter than the calyx, without scales, very shortly 

 clawed, each forming a wide short turbinate somewhat compressed cup, 

 glabrous outside, hirsute inside. Stamens 7-6, inserted within the short 

 annular glabrous disk, scarcely exserted, glabrous; filaments subulater 

 linear, curved near the apex; anthers short, 2-ceUed, fixed by the base. 



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