693 XLiv. SAPiNDACEiE. (W. P. Hiem.) [EarpuUta. 



tomentose, ellipsoidal or oblong, 2-ceIled ; ovules usually 2 togetter, super- 

 ■ posed. Style elongated ; 'stigma linear, usually more or less twisted. 

 Capsule coriaceous, inflated, 2-lobed, 2-ceIled, loculicidaUy 2-valved ; cells 

 1-2-seeded. .Sfeecfo subglobose, exalbuminous, usually amlate. — DismiB. 

 About 6 tropical Asiatic, Australian and Madagascar species. 



1. H. cupanoldes, Soscb. HoH. Beng. 86 ; Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, n. 442 ; 

 ed. 1832, i 645; leaflets 6-12 alternate or opposite ovate or elliptic thitly 

 coriaceous lateral nerves neither stout nor approximate base obtuse or 

 cuneate shortly petiolate, panicles lax axillary and subterminal, fruit 

 glabrate or nearly so. Wall. Gat. 8078. Streptostigma viridiflorum, 

 Thwaites in SooJc. Eew Joum. vi. 298, t. 9 (1854). H. imbricata, Thwaites 

 Enum. 56; Bedd Fl. Sylv. t. 158. Otonychium imbricatum, Blune 

 Rumph. iii 180 {fide Thwaitei). 



Chittagons, Moxburgh. Birma, Griffith. South Akdamans, Kutz. Westebn 

 Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. Ceylon, in the Central province. — Uistbib. 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



A tree with straight trunk. Leaves 6-18 in. ; leaflets 2-9 hy 1-3 in. ; petiohiles 

 J-| in. Panicles erect (in flower), 2-9 in. long. Flowers pale-yellow or greenish, 

 |-4 in. long. Calyx J-J in. long, somewhat tomentose, deciduous ; partitions ob- 

 tuse. Petals glahrous except the claw, obtuse. Oopsitfe 1 hyl4-2J in., compressed, 

 pendulous, bright orange. — Some of Blume's species of Harpullia are probably syno- 

 nymous. 



18. ZOIiXiINGERXA, Kurz in Jonrn. As. See. Beng. xli ii. 303 (1872). 



A glabrescent, shining tree. Leaves alternate, deciduous, ^xstipulate ; 

 leaflets alternate, entire, papery. Panicles axillary and terminal ; flowers 

 •white, pediceUed. Calyx 5-partite ; sepals deciduous, unequal, imbricated ; 

 the inner 2 larger. Petals 5, somewhat clawed, each furnished at the base 

 with an obtuse woolly scale half as long as themselves. Stamens 8, inserted 

 within the obsolete disk ; filaments not exserted, longer slender ; anthers 

 oval, cells blunt. Ovary 3-sided, conical, attenuated into the simple 

 3-dentate 3-sided style, 3-celled ; cells 1-2-ovuled. Capsules large, papery, 

 usually 1-ceUed, broadly 3-2-winged, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds solitary 

 or 2 together, exalbuminous, without aril ; testa membranous ; cotyledons 

 large green plicate.— Disteib. A monotypic genus. 



1. Z. macrocarpa, Kurz I.e.; leaves glabrous, leaflets 4-5 oblong 

 rather obtusely narrowed scarcely acuminate base oblique, capsule- wings 

 striate rounded at base truncate at apex. 



Peod, at Prome, Kurz. 



A tree up to 80 ft. ; young parts tawny-puberulent. Leaves 9-12 in., odd-pinnate or 

 rarely subabruptly pinnate ; leaflets 5-8 by 11-2 in. ; lateral veins subparallel ; petio- 

 lules J-J m. Panicles 4-6 in., somewhat drooping, obsoletely puberulent. Pedicds 

 J in. Sepals about ^V in. long, obovate, ciliolated, subemarginate. Petals i in. long, 

 ciliated, oblong, obtuse. Filaments pubescent. Ovary sparingly pubescent at base. 

 Caps«fes 2-2i in. by 1^-lf in., oblong, glabrate. 



19. ACER, Tournef. 



Trees with opposite simple or palmately lobed exstipulate leaves, ter- 

 minal and lateral racemes or corymbs and polygamous regular flowers. 

 Calyx usually 5-partite, imbricated, deciduous. Petals isomerous with the 



