180 SAPINDACE^. [ftAPiNDUs. 



is used for burning and also medicinally, and tlie pulpy subacid aril is 

 eaten. In Oudh, where the tree is plentiful, the foliage is much used as 

 cattle fodder during the dry season. 



4. SAPINDUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 682. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, or subverticiUate (and then 

 1-foUolate), usually paripinna'^^e, exstipulate ; leaflets coriaceous, 

 usually entire. Flowers regular, polygamous, in terminal or axillary 

 panicles. Sejpals 4-5, imbricate. PetaU 4-5, with or without 

 scales. Disk complete, annular, fleshy. Stamens usually 8-10, 

 inserted within the disk ; filaments usually pilose ; anthers versatile. 

 Ovary entire or 2-4-lobed, 2-4-celled ; style terminal ; stigma 2-4- 

 lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit of 1-3 indehiscent cocci. 

 Seed globose, with or without an aril. — Species about 40, inhabiting 

 the tropical regions of the whole world. 



Leaflets 4-6, usually opposite, disk and 

 ovary hairy .... . 1. S. laurifoUus. 



Leaflets 10-16, usually alternate, disk and 



ovary glabrous . . . 2. S. Mukorossi. 



Leaves 1-foliolate, disk and ovary glabrous 3. 8. Danura. 



1. S. laurifoUus, Vahl. 8ymb. Hi, 54 ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 278 ; W. Sf A, 

 Trod. Ill ; Royle III. 137 ; D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl. 34; Brand. For. Fl. J 06. 

 S. trifoliatus, F. B. I. i, 682 (not of Linn.) ; Watt E. D. S. emarginatus, 

 Vahl; Boxb. I.e. 279 ; W. ^ A. I.e.; Brand i.e. 107 ; D. Sf G. I.e. 35. (Soap- 

 nut, tree of S. India.) 



A large tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets 4-6, those of the termi- 

 nal pair longest, 3-7 in., elliptic or oblong, acuminate or emarginate, 

 glabrous or pubescent beneath, base obtuse. Flowers in terminal 

 pubescent panicles, white, hairy. Spirals dhtu'se. Petals narrower and 

 longer than the sepals, sometimes with a membranous pilose scale 

 attached to the claw. Stamens 8; ant^iers apiculate. -Di.sfc hairy. Ovary 

 3-lobed, rusty-tomentose. Fruit fleshy, ^-| in . long, 2-3-lobed, at length 

 glaucescent. 



Forests near Todgarh in Merwara (apparently quite wild), Bundelkhand 

 (Vicary), Oudh (T. Anderson). Distbib. : Bengal, S. India and 

 Ceylon, A handsome tree, often cultivated near villages. Flowers 

 during the cold season, and the fruit ripens between Feb and April. The 

 fruit is largely used as a substitute for soap. From the hard yellow wood 

 a variety of small articles, such as combs, etc., are made, Trimen, in 

 his Flora of Ceylon, Vol. I, p. 804, contends that 5. trifoliatus of 

 Linnaeus, besides being an inappropriate name, refers to Schleichera 

 trijuga. 



2. S. Mukorossi, Goertn. Fruct, i, 342, t.70 ; F. B. I. i, 6S3 ; Watt 

 _ B. A S. detergens, Boxb,; Fl. Ind. ii, 280 (iiot of Wall.) ; Brand. For. Fl, 



