Otophon-a.] XLiv. SAPiNDACEiE. (W. p. Hiern.) " 681 



preBsed. Stigma sessile broadly ttisulcate. Fruit whitish, glabrous, subglobose; tri- 

 gonous, 3-celled, 14 in. diam, Seedi arillate. ■ 



11. SCKX.EZCK&RA, Willd. 



Trees. .£ea'yes alternate, exstipulate, pinnate; leaflets opposite (or alternate) 

 quite entire, repand-wayy or slightly serrate, with subparallel lateral veins 

 and delicate inconspicuous reticulation. Panicles or racemes simple, 

 elongated. Movi&rs small, fascicled, regular, polygamo-dioecioua. Calyx 

 4-6-fid, srnall, cup-shaped : lobes valvate or obscurely imbricated. Petals 

 absent. Disk complete, glabrous, wavy. Stamens 5-8, exserted, inserted 

 within the disk ; filaments more or less pubescent ; anthers small, glabrous. 

 Ovary ovoid, 3-4-ceUed, narrowed into a rigid style ; stigma 3-4-cleft. 

 Omvles solitary, erect. Fruit dry crustaceo-coriaceous, iijdehiscent, 1-3.- 

 cBlled. ISeeds erect, enveloped in a fleshy aril ; embryo conduplicate, with, 

 unequal connate cotyledons. — Disteib. A small genus of India, the Infi^an 

 Archipelago, and the Philippine Islands. 



Eeddome, in his Flora Sylvatioa Anal. Gen. p. Ixxii., speaks of a new tree fonnd by 

 him on the Golcondah hills, Vizagapatam district, which (he says) will probably turn 

 out to he a species oi Schleichera ; it is a middle-sized tree, all the young parts and 

 the inflorescence pubesuent-tomentose, leaves alternate abruptly or unequally pinnate, 

 8-10 inches long, leaflets 2-3 pair with or with^jiut a tei-minal odd onOj ovate or oblong 

 with a tongish acumination subentire or distantly and rather inconspicuously serrate, 

 quite glabrous in age except the cbsta, 3-4 inches long by l-lj broad, petiolules ^\ in. 

 wng, racemes axillary panicled. The flovfer-buds on the specimep in the Kew Her- 

 barium are so young that their structure cannot be determined ; indeed the Natural 

 Order to which the plant ought to be referred is uncertain. It is different from any 

 known Indian species of SajpimdacecB. 



1. S. trijug-a, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1096 ; leaflets 4-8 opposite elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong obtuse or shortly acuminate entire at length coriaceous 

 glaorescent or subvelutinous flat base rounded or obtuse sessile or sub- 

 sessile, fruit ellipsoidal glabrous apiculate smooth or spinous. Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 29 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bvmh. Fl. 35 ; Thwaites Enum. 58 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Syh. t. il9,- Brandis Fl. Syh. 105, t. 20; Roocb. Fl. Ind. ii. 277 ; Roth. 

 Nov. Sp. 385; W. & A. Prodr. 114, not of Moritzi. S. pubescens, 

 Roik. I.e. Melicocca trijuga, Juss. in Mem. Mm. Par. iii. 187, t. 8 ; 

 B.C. Prodr. I 615; Wail. Cat. 8.080. gcytalia trijuga, Roxb. ex DC. I.e. 

 Stadmannia trijuga, Spreny. Syst. ii. 242. St. pubescens, Spreng. I.e. 

 Cussambium spinosum, Hamilt. in Trans. Werner^ Soc. v. 356. C. gla^ 

 brum, Bamilt. I.e. 0. pubescens, Hamilt. I.e. 357. Conghas zeylonerisis, 

 Mb. Madr. ex Wall. I.e. M. pubescens, BC. l.c.—Rumph. Herb. Amiom. i, 

 t. 57; JTall. Cat. 8106. 

 ' Dry forests, from the N.W. Himalata at Sirmor;_ throughout Centbal an(J 

 SotjTHEEN India, Biema, and Cetlon. — Disteib. Java, Timor. 



A large tree, leafing and flowering early in the spring. Leaves paripinnate, 8-1? 

 in.; leaflets 1-10 by §-4J in. ; the lowest pairs the smaUest, iiocemes axillary, often 

 several on short br'a'noBlets, 2-4 in. Fhwers yellovfish or green. Fruit f-l in. long. 

 —The pulpy subacid aril'is edible ; the bark is astringent, and, according to Dr. Eox< 

 burgh, tha natives rub it up with oil and use it to cure the itch. The. timber is good. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



S. PENTAPETALA, Boxb., is Cupania pentapetala, W. & A. 



S. TEijuQA, Moritzi {not of Willd.), is Cupania Lessertiana, Camb. 



