696 XLiv. SAPiNDACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) [Aeer. 



Sect. IV. Leaves 7-5-lobed and -nerved. 



12 A.'Campliellii, Book f. & Thorns, mss. in 3b. Kew. ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 109 ; leaves 5-7-lobed glabrescent except axils of the 5-7 basal nerves 

 serrulate both^ides green base hollowed or truncate, cymes pyramidal or 

 elongated subglabrous appearing with the leaves. 



SiKKiM HiMALATA, alt. 7-10,000 ft., Merl. Griffith, J. D. M. ., , ,, 



A tree of 50 ft. Learxs of a teautifuUy green colour, pendulous, pilose beneath 

 •when quite young, 3-5 by 4r-7 in. ; lobes lanceolate or ovate-caudate ; petioles red- 

 dish, l|-3. C^mes 2-6 in. long ; flowers short, green. /SepaZs 5, ovate. Prtafe white, 

 shorter than the sepals, obtuse, plicate at base. Stamens 8, reddish, about equaning 

 the calyx; filaments short. Fruit glabrous, f-lin. long; carpels divaricate; wings 

 venose, widened above, back slightly curved ; cells globose darker, nearly smooth. 



13. A. plctum, Thurib. Fl. Jap. 162 ; leaves 5-7-lobed submembranous 

 glabrescent except hairy tufts on the axils of the 5-7 basal nerves both 

 sides green base cordate or hollowed lobes lanceolate or caudate entire, 

 cymes corymbose appearing with the leaves. Brand:,For. Fl. 112 ; Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 251. A. l»tum, C. A. Mey. Yem. Pfl. Caw:. 206; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 949. A. truncatum, Bunge Enum. PI. China Bor. 10. 

 A. cultratum, Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 4 ; Wall. Cat. 1228. A. colchicum, 

 H(yrt. A. sterculiaceum. Griff. Itin. Notes 148, not of Wall. A. Mono, 

 . MaaAm,. Prim. Fl. Amur. 68. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 4-6000 ft., to Bhotan, alt. 9-10,000 ft. — 

 DiSTKiB. Eastward to China, Japan, and westward to Persia and the Caucasus. 



A beautiful tree of small or moderate size. Leaves 2-5J by 2^-64 in. ; petioles gla- 

 Jbrous, 1-4^ in. Cymes 1-6 in. ; flowers J-J in. long, on slender pedicels. SepciLs ob- 

 long. Petals spathulate, equalling the calyx. Stamens 8, included. Fruit glabrous ; 

 carpels 14-1| in. long, divaricating almost in one line ; wings sinuous, venose, back 

 arcuate ; cells compressed. — Wood white, light, fine-grained. 



20. DOBXNSA, Hamilt. 



A shrub with terete virgate branches. Leaves undivided, serrately 

 toothed, opposite, exstipulate, petioled. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 

 •leafy below, flowers small unisexual, glabrous. Calyx cnp-shaped, 4-dentate, 

 base subturbinate, altogether wanting in the female flower. Petals 4, lan- 

 ceolate-spathulate, exceeding the calyx, wanting in the female flower. 

 Stamens 8, alternately shorter, exserted, glabrous, wanting in the female 

 flower ; anthers short. Dish wanting in the male, annular in the feinale 

 flower, glabrous. Ovary sessile, lenticular, 1-celled, rudimentary in the 

 ■male flower ; style filiform, spirally involute, stigmatose on the inner side 

 and at the apex ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit compressed, shortly ciliated 

 on the margin, indehiscent, borne on widely bracteate pedicels, the bract 

 being adnate to the pedicel and exceeding both it and the fruit. Seed 

 solitary, compressed, exalbuminous, exarUlate ; testa membranous ; coty- 

 ledons flat, accumbept ; radicle short. — DiSTRtB. A monotypic genus. 



1. D. vulgparis, Hamilt. ex D. Don Prodr. 249 ; leaves eUil)tic-lan- 

 ceolate acutely acuminate minutely hairy on veins, acumen quite entire base 

 rounded. Wall. Gat. 1229. 



Centbal and Eastern Himalaya ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft., /. D. S,; 

 Mishmi hills, Griffith. 

 Branched, 5-8 ft. high, aromatic or •with smell of ivy. Branahlets Shortly pubescent. 



