Dodoncea] XXXIX. SAPINI)ACE.E 187 



cell; style cylindric^ 2-lobe(i at top. Fr. a membranous capsule with 2-4 broad 

 wings from base to style, \ in. long and | in. across including the wings^ 

 sepai'ating septicidally into as many valves as cells, each valve winged on its 

 back. Seeds opaque, dark brown or black, with a thickened funicle. 



Trans Indii'^, Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Common locally, often covering exten- 

 {>ive tracts, in tlie drier regions of North- We^t and Central India as well a^ in the 

 Deccan. Also on the sea coasst. PL R. S. Fr. C. S. Ceylon, Malay Penins>ula and 

 Archipelago. Tropics of most countries. A most interesting genus, which may possibly 

 not belong to Sajjlndacece. 



Stocksia brahuica, Benth., Baluchistan 6,000 ft., Afghanistan, Eastern Persia. A stiff 

 thorny shrub 6-12 ft. high. L. linear, grey, generally fasciculate, Fl. yellow, in 

 axillary fascicles. Sepals 5, ciliate, petals I, oblong on a hairy claw. Disk obliqu*-'. 

 Stamens 8, filaments hairy below, capsule membranous, inflated, obtusely ti'igonous. 

 loculicidal, of a brilliant yellowish-red colour. 



5. HARPULLXA, Eoxb. : M. Brit. Ind. i. 691. 

 Species 6, Madagascar, Northern Australiaj tropical Asia. 



H. cupanioides, Eoxb.— Syn. //. unJmcata, Thw. ; Bedd. M. Bylv. t. 15S. 

 Vern. HarjpvUl, Chitt. 



A tall tree, 1. pari-pinnate. Leaflets opposite or alternate, 3-(> pair, glab- 

 rous, 3-8 in. long. Fl. regular, 5-merous, polygamous, h in. long, in cyniose 

 panicles. Sepals erect, equal, imbricate, minutely pubescent outside, petals 

 clawed, longer than sepals. Stamens 5, glabrous, inserted inside the small 

 puberulous disk. Ovaxy 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, style filiform, stigma 

 more or less twisted. Fr. an inflated 2-lobed capsule, brilliant ox^ange, each 

 lobe opening by 2 valves. Seeds black, usually one in each lobe. 



Common in the evergreen forests of the Western Clhats from the Konkan southwards, 

 Chittagong, Andamans. Fh 0. S. Fr. H. S. "A beautiful sight when covered %\ith 

 its brilliant orange fruit "' (Bedd.). Ceylon, Malay Peninsxila and Archipelago, Yiinan, 

 Trimen, Handbook Ceylon i. 312, regards the plant of Ceylon and the Western Peninsula 

 (/£ imhriada^ Tliw.) as ditFerent from the eastern tree. " 



Paraneplieliuni xestopiiylLtim, Miti.; Ivurx P. PL i. 2bb {Stjjphopefalum mnufiorum^ 

 Hiern), HookhoomVaJ ley, Upper Burma. Tenasserim (Kurz). Sumatra. A small ever- 

 green tree. L. coriaceous, shining, imparipinnate, leaflets opposite, 2—1 pair, entirCj 

 sec. n. 10-14 pair, bladp 4-8, petiole l-l in. Fl. minute, pink, in rusty-tomentose 

 l>anicles, generalh^ on the old wood. Petals 5, each forming a turbinate cup. glabrous 

 outside, villous inside. Fr. a dehiscent B-valved capsule, muricate. 



Lepidopetalum JacManmn, Eadlk. ; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix. t. 2B. {Cupanla JacMana^ 

 Hiern). Nicobar Islands. A small tree. L. pinnate, leaflets chartaceous, shining on 

 both faces, 2-5 pair, alternate or nearly opposite. Sec. n.8--10 jmir, arching, prominent 

 beneath, veins flnely reticulate. Fl. tetramerous in short axillary racemes. Sepals 

 lanceolate, i)etals much shorter than sepals, each ^^ ith a large scale adnate to its edge. 

 Stamens 8, short, filaments glabrous, anthers hirsute. CaiJsuie coriaceous, compressed^ 

 obovate, IJ in, long, reddish-brown when ripe, dehiscent, 2~valved. Seed 1, black, 

 arillus palf* pink or i\ hite. 



G. MISCHOCARPUS, Blume; King Journ. As. Soc. Bengal^ vol. ()5 



(1897); p. 447. 



Trees. L. alternate, pari pinnate, stipules 0, leaflets entire, reticulate veins 

 conspicuous. Fl. pentainerous, in axillary simple or branched racemes. Calyx 

 minute, cup-shaped. Petals in some species wanting. Disk entire, annular. 

 Stamens 8 or fewer. Capsule pyriform, blunt, 8-celled, seed enveloped in a 

 thin arillus. Species 12. Indo-Malayan and Australasian. 



1. M, fuscescens, Blume. — Syn. Cupania IMferi, Hiern; Kurz F. FL 

 i. 285. 



A large glabrous tree, only infloi'escence puberulous. Leaflets 4-(), shining 



