Ihrnigi/rosa^ 



3S. RAl'lNDACEiE. 



107 



flowers 6-10 ; tilaments pilose^ somewhat unilateral ; anthers not or 

 scarcely exserted. Ovary excentric, trigonous, 3-celletl ; stit^fma 

 trigonous^ blunt ; ovule solitary. Fruit woody, toinentose, yellow. 

 Seeds exalbuminous and exarillate ; cotyledons fleshy, equal. 



H. oanescens, Thwaites Enum. 56, 408 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 671 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t- 151. Oiipcmia cancscens, Pers.; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 35. Kurpa, 

 lakhandi, M. ', Kurpah, mooltaga, K. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards, Tenasserim, Burma, 

 eastern side of the Madras Presidency and Ceylon. 



A fairly large and straight tree in North Kanara. Fl. Feb.-May. 

 Fruit ripe in June and July. Bark ash-coloured, slightly scabrous. 

 Wood whitish or grey, smooth, shining ; no distinct heartvvood. Pores 

 small, uniformly distributed. Med. rays fine, at unequal distances apart. 

 Weighs 45 lbs. to the cub. ft. Readily attacked by boring insects, 



2. ERIOGLOSSUM, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnate, exstipulate ; leafl:its 

 opposite, entire. Flowers in terminal erect panicles, polygamo-dioe- 

 cious. Sepals 5, unequal^ imbricated, 2 outer smaller. Petals 4, 

 unequal, clawed ; scale hairy, hooded, with an appendage at the tip. 

 Disk I -sided, lobed. Stamens 8, unequal ; filaments hairy. Ovary 

 stipitate, obcordate, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; style slender, stigma obscurely 

 3-lobed, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit lobed to the base, indehiscent. Seeds 

 oblong, exarillate, exalbuminous ; embryo straight, cotyledons thick. 



E. edule, Bl. Bijdr. 299 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 672. E, rubiginosum, Brandis 

 For. Fl. 108. Sapindns nihiginosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. IT. 282 ; Grah. Cat. 

 Bo. PI. 29; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. Suppl. 14; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 73. 



Sikkim Himalaya, Assam, Eastern Peninsula, Burma to Penang and 

 Malacca and tbe Andamans, planted near Bombay, very doubtfully indi- 

 geaous in the Bombay Presidency. Ool; Beddome is of opinion that this 

 large tree is not indigenous on the Western coast. Dalzell says, la the 

 woods of Girgaum, but certainly planted." 



Wood strong, durable, with chocolate-coloured heart-wood. 



3. ALLOPHYLUS, Linn. 



Small trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves l-3-£oliate. Flowers 

 small, white, in simple spikes. Sepals 4. Petals 4, vvith a scale 

 above the claw. Stamens 8. Inserted on the receptacle inside the 

 disk. Ovary usually 2-lobed and 2-celled. Disk 1-sided, usually with 

 4 glands, op,/Osite the petals. Fruit small, red, indehiscent, shining. 

 Seeds usually with a short fleshy arillus, embryo curved ; cotyledons 

 plicate. 



A. Cobbe, Bl. Rumph. III. 131 ; FL Br. T. 1. 673. Schmidelia Cohhe, 

 Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 29 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 72. Titwi, M. ; KasabaUy^ 

 mtirole bheudy^ K. 



