SCHMIDELIA HISPIDA. (Nat. order SapindaceEe.) 



SCHMIDELIA. Linn.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers polygamo-diascious, sepals 4 in two opposite pairs membranous, cucullate, broadly imbricated, 

 the two outer ones smaller than the others, petals 4, small or absent, glabrous or villose internally. Disk unilateral, entire or lobed or with a gland opposite 

 each petal, stamens excentric or subcentrio, included or shortly exserted, ovary excentric, single and 1-celled or didymous and 2-oelled, rarely 3-lobed and 

 3-celled, style robust, divided sometimes to the base into 2 or 3 lobes, ovules solitary in the cells, ascending from the base, cocci of the fruit one or 

 two, turbinate or subglobose, dry and coriaceous or fleshy, seeds erect, with a short fleshy arillus, embryo curved, the cotyledons conduplicate. Trees 

 or shrubs. — Ornitrophe, Juss. AUophyllus, Linn. Aporetica, Font, 



SCHMIDELIA HISPIDA. (Thw.) A small tree branches hispid, leaves simple 5-14 inches long by 2-5 inches broad, 

 lanceolate acuminate rounded at the base or slightly narrowed, glabrous but hispid at the margin and on the costa and primary veins 

 on both sides, petiole f -2 inches long, racemes very short, flowers crowded, petals unguiculate, scales furnished with long villous hairs. 

 Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 55. 



A small tree, moist forests in Ceylon, at an elevation of 1000-2000 feet. The drawing and analysis are from Dr. Thwaites, 



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