TURPINIA NEPALENSIS. (Nat. order Sapindaoese.) 



TURPINIA. Vent. — GEN. CHAR. Flowers regular hermathrodite, calyx 5-lid imbricate persistent, petals 5 sessile imbricate, disk raised 

 erenate or lobed, stamens 5 inserted under margin of the disk and between its lobes, ovary sessile 3-lobed 3-ceUed, styles 3 combined or free, stigmas sub- 

 capitate, ovules 2 in each cell or many iu 2 series ascending anatropal. Fruit subglobose fleshy or coriaceous crowned with the scars of the styles, 3 celled or 

 fewer by abortion, seed pendulous or fixed horizontally to the axis angled compressed, testa crustaceous or bony, bilum large, albumen fleshy, embryo 

 straight, cotyledons plano-convex. Trees or shrubs glabrous, leaves opposite unequally-pinnate (or very rarely simple), stipules interpetiolar early deciduous, 

 leaflets opposite serrate, flowers small in axillary or terminal panicles.— Dalrymplea, Jioxb. Lapecedea, E.B.K. Oehrantha, Lindl. Eyrea, Champ. 

 Triceraria, Willd. 



TURPINIA NEPALENSIS. (Wall.) A good sized spreading evergreen tree, young parts generally very minutely 

 puberulous (under tbe lens), leaves trifoliate or unequally pinnate 4-7 inches long furnished with interpetiolar stipules which are early 

 deciduous, leaflets 1-2 opposite pair with an odd one, ovate to elliptic, acuminate rather coriaceous toothed or rarely entire quite 

 glabrous on both sides 2-3 inches long § to 1| broad, petiolules 2-3 lines long, stipels small acute, pauicles in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, from shorter to a little longer than the leaves trichotomous, minutely bracteoled, flowers numerous small greenish yellow, calyx 

 very minutely ciliate and slightly puberulous on both sides, tinted with red on the outside, petals ciliate and hairy on the inside glabrous 

 or very minutely puberulous outside, glands of the disk yellow, filaments glabrous, ovary 3 lobed with 3 styles, lobes and styles com- 

 bined but easily separable when young, ovules 2-3 in each cell, fruit globular or subglobular, the 3 lobes of the ovary quite consolidated 

 into one, more or less 3-poiuted with the remains of the styles, very variable in size, generally not larger than a pea, sometimes up to 

 1 inch in diameter. Wall. L. n. 4277 ; — Wight hones 972. 



A common tree on the mountains all over India and Ceylon, also found in Hongkong ; it is occasionally found in very loiu elevations 

 not much above sea level ; it is particularly common about Ootacamund at 7000 feet ; it is called Neela, by the Burghers on the Nilgiris, and 

 Kankoombala and AllakiriUa in Ceylon. 



A nalysis. 



1. Apex of a very young branch showing one of the interpetiolar stipules, the scar of another, and the minute stipels. 



2. A young bud 1 , 

 & A flower. 



4. The same open, showing the ciliate calyx and hairy petals. 



5. Aflower, petals aud 3 stamens removed, showing the lobed disk, insertion of the stamens, and the 3 ovaries (closely attached.) 



6. A petal. 



7- Anthers, front aud back view. 



8. Vertical section of the ovary showing the insertion of the ovules. 



9. Transvere section showing the cells 2 ovuled. 

 10. A small portion of a fruit-branch. 



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