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A large straggling shrub, 6-16 ft. high. Leaves 2-pinnate, or the upper 

 simply pinnate ; leaflets large, ovate-lanceolate, shortly caudate ; hispi: 

 dnlous on the nerves beneath ; primary nerves distant. Corymbs 4-6 in., 

 dense. Bracts ovate or lanceolate, persistent. Petals green. Lobes of 

 staminal tube subeatire. Berries brownish-yellow when ripe. 



Oudh Terai. (E. Thompson, and Dathie's collector,^ Distbib.: Sik- 

 kim and Khasia Hills 500-41,000 ft., very common (C. B. Clarke). A very 

 distinct species. 



XXXVIII.— SAPINDACE^. 



Tbees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves usually alternate and ex- 

 stipulate, pinnate ualmate S-foliolate or simple, (^lowers mostly 

 polygamo-dioecious and suiali, usually either irregular or unsymme- 

 trical. Sejpah usually 4-5, more or less connate, imbricate or val- 

 vate in buii. Petals free, 4-5, r;irc'ly fewer or 0, the position of the 

 fifth sometimes vacant. Disk annular or unilateral. Stamens 5-10, 

 inserted inside the disk at th*^ base of the ovary or outside or on the 

 disk, sotnetimps unilateral ; filaments free, often hairy. Oyary centric 

 or excentric, entire or lobed, 1-4 celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, 

 rarely more, attached to the axis. Fruit capsular or indehiscent, 

 entire or lobed, sometimes winded. Seeds with or without albumep, 

 sometimes ariilate. Species 400 to 500, scattered over the whole 

 world, and more abundantly within the tropics. 



The Lit'Chi (Nephelium Lit-chi) is cultivated in many gardens within 

 the area. It has been introduced from S. China. Ai^scuLus Hippocasta' 

 num, L. is the Common Horse-chestnut, a native of Persia and the 

 Caucasus. The Himalayan Horse-chestnut (,M. indica, Golebr.) is indi- 

 genous on the W. Himalaya and eastward to Nepal. 



Stamens inserted inside the disk. 

 Flowers irregular. 



Leaves biternate. A climbing shrub. . 1. Cabdiospbemum. 



Leaves odd-pinnate .... 2. Ebioglossum. 



Flowers regular. 



Fruit syncarpous, indehiscent, petals 0. . 3. Schleichbba. 



Fruit of 1-3 distinct indehiscent cocci. . 4. Sapindus. 



Stamens inserted on the disk, fruit 2-winged, 

 indehiscent. .5. Aceb^ 



Stamens inserted outside the disk ; fruit 3- 

 winged, dehiscent An evergreen shrub • 6. Dodonjea. 



