HEMIGYROSA CANESOENS. (Nat. order Sapindace;©.) 



HeMIGYROSA. Blume.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers polygamo-mon^ecious irregular, sepals 5 unequal erect concave, 2 exterior smaller, broadly 

 imbricate, petals 4-5, tbe fifth sometimes wanting or small each furnished with a scale above the long villous claw ; disk unilateral, stamens 8 in the male, 

 6-8 in the hermathrodite unequal unilateral (at least in the male), filaments pilose, anthers scarcely exserted, ovary excentric 3-angled or sub-entire 3- 

 celled, style short or elongate, stigma 3-angled or subeatire obtuse, ovules solitary in the cells fixed to the axis about the middle, fruit indehiscent 

 coriaceous fleshy or woody 3-angled or spherical, velvetty or tomentose 3-celled, cells hirsute within, seed oblong exarillate, testa coriaceous, cotyledons 

 fleshy equal. Trees, leaves alternate exstipulate abruptly or unequally-pinnate, flowers in canesceut racemes. 



HeMIGYROSA CANESCENS. (Roxb.) A good sized tree, trunk of considerable girth but not straight, bark ash 

 colored, slightly scabrous, branches numerous spreading, leaves alternate abruptly and unequally pinnate 6-10 inches long, leaflets 

 occasionally only 1 pair or ternate, generally 2 pairs with or without a terminal odd one, the terminal pair opposite, the lower pair 

 opposite, subopposite or alternate, lanceolate to oblong entire glabrous slightly coriaceous, 3-6 inches long by 1J-2J broad, petiolules 

 2-3 lines long slightly fuscous, racemes numerous axillary or scattered over the branchlets, simple or branched at the base, minutely 

 tomentose, bracteoles minute triangular shorter than the pedicels, flowers small white fascicled, in the male the stamens are always 8 and 

 all unilateral and the petals only 4, the adnate scales being larger than in the fertile flowers, in the fertile flower the disk is unilateral? 

 the stamens 6-8 arranged irregularly all round the ovary, petals 5 all equal in size and each furnished with a bifid scale, or the 5th 

 scaleless, or entirely absent or small, fruit subspherical or 3-angled tomentose often 1-seeded by abortion. — Molinaea canescens, Koxb> 

 Fl. Ind, ii. 243. Cupania canescens, WA. Prod, p. 113. Sapindus tetraphyllus, DG. Prod. 1. 608. 



A common tree in jangles on the eastern side of the Madras Presidency, Salem, Cuddapah, Mysore, &c, also found* in Bombay and 

 Ceylon ; it does not ascend ihe mountains much above .JOOO/eg* ; the woo i is whitish and is occasionally used by the native s for building purposes ; 

 it is called Korioi in Teligoo, Nekota in Tamil, and Kurpa in the Bombay Presidency ; in most of the fertile flowers (from fresh specimens) that 

 I dissected, 1 found 5 equal petals, one of the 5 often being scaleless, and the stamens as often 6 as 8, I could not find more than 4 petals in ar>y 

 of the male flowers ; the flowers are probably subject to great variation (as is often the case with polygamous flowers), some being intermediate be- 

 tvieen the male and hermathrodite, &c , and an analysis from other individuals might shoiv considerable difference. (Vide remarks in the Manual 

 under Hemigyrosa trichocarpa.) 



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