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XXXIX. SAPINDACEiE 



[Allophylub 



short pedicels in small fascicles on narrow spiciforin axillary racemes, 

 often paniculate, generally strigose. Sepals and petals nearly glabrous out- 

 bide. Eipe carpels usually 

 solitary, \ in. diam., ovoid, 



\ \v ../^ ifk Common througliout the 



Western Peninsula. Assam, 

 Klia&i hills, Cliittagong, Bur- 

 ma Fl. May-July. An exceed- 

 ingly variable plant. 2. A. 

 concanicus, Eadlkofer. Konkan, 

 Mira hill near Bombay. Scan- 

 dent. Leaflets 8, entiiely 

 glabrous, shining, entire, 

 broadly elliptic, tertiary nerves 

 reticulate, conspicuous. Fl. in 

 ample terminal panicles. 3. A. 

 zeylanicus Linn. SikkimTeiai 

 and outer hills, ascending to 

 3,000 ft Assam, Cachar, Malay 

 Pennisula and Ceylon. L. uni- 

 foliolate sinuate serrate, seen, 

 excurrent into the serratures, 

 blade 10-15, petiole 1-4 in. 

 Fr. red. \ in. diaiQ. 



3. GUIOA, Cav. ; King 



in Journ. As. Soc. vol. 



G5 (1897), 443. 



Erect shrubs or trees. 

 L. alternate, pinnate, stip- 

 ules 0, leaflets lanceolatej 

 entire, coriaceous. Fl. pen- 

 tamerous, nearly globose in 

 bud, in simple or branched racemes. Sepals round, thick, concave, xjubescent 

 at the edges, imbricate. Petals with 2 pectinate scales. ^ Disk generally 

 incomplete. Stamens 8. Ovary 3-celled, 3-angled, ovule one in each cell. Fr. 

 a deMscent 3-winged capsule. Cotyledons fleshy and oily, folded. Species 

 33, IndoMalaj-an region, Australia, Oceania. 



1. a fuscidula, Badlk. Cuj)ania fu&eidula, Kutz; Fl. Brit Ind. i. 677. Tenasserim, a 

 binall evergreen tree. Branchletb, leaves and inflorescence pubescent. Leaflets 8-4 

 pair, 2-8 in. long. Fr. | in. diam. 2. G. squamosa, Kadlk. {Cupanla (jlalrafa^ Hiern, 

 not of Kurz). Tenas&ermi, Malay Peninsula. A slender tree. Branchlets slightly 

 rusty puberulous, leaflets glabrous, 2-4 in. long 4-8 pair. Fr. 1 in. diam. 



Fn.. 84. — AUophylus cobbe, Blunie. 



4 DODON.EA, Linn. ; EL Brit. Ind. i> (397. 

 Species 46, mostly Australian. 



D. viscosa, Linn.; Brandis P. PL 113.— Syn. D. -BtM*mmu?/aiM, DC. 

 "Wigbt 111. t. 52 Vern, GMsanni\ Balucli; Sanatta^ Mendrit^ Pb. ; Eharatctj 

 C.P. ; Bandari, Btmdttrgi, Kan. 



A gregarious shrub or small tree, attaining at times 20 ft., beartwood 

 dark brown, extremely bard, med. rays fine. Branchlets angular, young 

 shoots more or less viscid with bright yellow resin. L. varying from lanceo- 

 late to linear-cuneate, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, tapering into a short 

 marginate petiole, midrib prominent, sec. n, numerous. PL regular, poly- 

 gamous, in short terminal panicles. Sepals 5, petals 0. Stamens usually 8, 

 as long as sepals in ^ , shorter than sepals in $ fl., filaments much shorter 

 than anthers. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 3- or 4r-celled, 2 ovules in each 



