698 XLiv. SAPINDACE^. (W. P. Hiern.) 



1. laelianthus major, Linn. ; a Soutli African plant, occurs in 

 Kumaon, where it is said to be an introduction, and has been cultivated in 

 the Nilghiris where it was first noticed by Wight (Kew Distrib. n. 542) ; it 

 is established at Ootacamund {Bedd. Fl. ,Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixxi.), and in 

 Bhotan reaches a limit of 9500 feet {Oriff. Journ. 265). It is an undershrub 

 with glabrous coarsely serrate leaves emitting a fetid scent when bruised ; 

 it is synonymous with M. Himalayanus, WaU. Gat. 1190 ; Miq. in Herb. PI. 

 Ind. Or. Hohenacker. n. 1059 ; Planch.^in Trans. Linn. JSoc. Lond. xx. 416, 

 t. 20, f. 1-13 ; Hook f. in Journ. Bot. 1873, 356.— The claw of the petals was 

 pubescent in the flower of Wallich's specimen, which I examined, and thus 

 the character fails which Dr. Planchon relied on for the discrimination of 

 Wallich's species. 



22. STAFKVX.EA, Linn. 



Branched shrubs or trees, with terete branches. Leaves opposite, stipulate, 

 trifoliate or pinnate ; leaflets stipellate, serrulate. Injiorescence lateral and 

 terminal, bracteate, pedicels jointed in the middle. Flowers regular, her- 

 maphrodite, pendulous. Sepals 5, oblong, imbricated, coloured, deciduous. 

 Petals 5, as long as the sepals, obovate, imbricated, white. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the edge of the disk between its lobes ; filaments slender, pubescent below ; 

 anthers versatile, shortly oblong. Ovary 3-2-lobed and -celled ; styles 3-2, 

 slender ; stigmas subcapitate ; ovules 6 or more in each cell, in 2 rows, 

 anatropous. Gapsule membranous, vesicular-inflated, 3-2-lobed and -celled ; 

 carpels dehiscing at the apex along the ventral suture. Seeds few, sub- 

 globose, exarillate ; testa hard ; albumen fleshy. — Distrib. About 4 species 

 occurring in North America, Europe, and Asia. 



1. S. ZSmodi, Wall. Gat. 4275 ; leaves glabrescent or thinly pubescent 

 beneath trifoliolate leaflets nearly equal ovate or elliptic acuminate pale 

 benfeth membranous base obtuse or cuneate lateral ones subsessUe terminal 

 one petioled, anthers shortly apiculate. Brand. For. Fl. 114. 



Western Temperate Himalaya ; from Marri to Kumaon, alt. 6-7000 ft. — Uisthib. 

 Affghanistan. 



A small tree with spotted bark. Leaves 4-14 in. ; leaflets 2-6 ty 1-3 in. ; petioles 

 I4-6J in. ; terminal petiole |-1| in. ; stipules linear, stipels setaceous, both caducous. 

 Cymes rather dense, 1^4 in. ; flowers J in. long, about eq^ualling the pedicels. Cap- 

 sules 2-3 in. long; base turbinate. — Probably a form of the N. American S. trifolia, 

 Linn., differing only from the type by less pubescent foliage and anther-tips less obtuse. 



23. TURFIZTIA, Vent. 



Glabrous and shining trees or shrubs, with smooth terete branches. 

 Leases opposite, stipulate, usually odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite, stipellate, 

 serrulate, subcoriaceous. Panicles terminal and axillary; flowers small, 

 regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, imbricated. Petals 5, imbri- 

 cated. Stamens 5, inserted outside the lobed or crenulate raised disk; 

 filaments flattened ; anthers short. Ovary sessile, 3-lobed and -celled ; 

 styles 3, combined or distinct ; stigmas subcapitate ; ovules 2 together or 

 more and then in two rows. Fruit subglobose, indeMscent, ^-celled. 

 Seeds angular ; testa hard, shining ; hile large ; albumen fleshy ; aril 0. 

 Embryo straight. — Disteib. A genus of a few species widely (Usperse'd. 



1. T. pomifera, DC. Prodr. ii. 3 ; leaflets 3-9 elliptic oblong or ovate 

 acuminate, primary branches of the panicles opposite. Wall. Cat. 4271 



