Furpviia.] 



32. SAPINDACE^. 



Ill 



distinct or united ; ovules 2 in each cell or many in 2 series, anatropal. 

 Fruit subglobose, indehiscont, 3-celled. Seeds angular, exarillate, 

 testa hard, shining, albumen fleshy, embryo straight. 



T. pomifera, DO. Prod. II. 3 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 698. T, nepalensis, Wall. 

 Bbdd, Fl. Sylv. t. 159. Gamble Ind. Timbers. 102. 



Himalayas from Nepal eastwai-ds, Assam, Cachar and Burma ; West- 

 ern Peninsula from the Konkau southwards. In the evergreen forests 

 of the North Kanara gh^ts, abundant near Sirsi. Fl. Dec.-Jany. Fr. H. S. 

 Flowers white, sweet-scented. 



A large tree with thin, grey, smooth bark. Wood grey, soft, even- 

 grained ; weighs about 30 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



Order 33. SABIACE^. 



Shrubs or trees, rarely climbars. Leaves alternate, simple or 

 pinnate. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or polygamous ; inflorescence 

 usually a panicle. Calyx 4-5-partite, imbricate. Petals 4-5, equal 

 or unequal, opposite to or alternating with the sepals. Disk small, 

 annular. Stamens 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the base of or 

 on the disk, usually 2 only perfect and 3 without anthers. Ovary 

 2-3-celled^, compressed or 2-3-lobed ; styles 2-3, free or connate or 0, 

 stigmas punctiform ; ovules 1-2 in each cell. Ripe carpels 1-2, drupa- 

 ceous or dry, endocarp crustaceous or bony, albumen or scanty. 



MELIOSMA, Blum€. 



Trees or shrubs, usually pubescent or tomentose. Flowers minute, in 

 large thyrsoid panicles. Sepa's 4-5. Petals as many, very unequal, 

 the 2 smaller, interior, behind the fertile stamens, sometimes 2-cleft. 

 Stamens 2, fertile and 3, deformed, broad, opposite the larger petals, 

 2-fid with 2 empty cells. Disk annular, toothed. Ovary sessile, 2, 

 rarely 8-celled, surrounded at the base by the cup-shaped, membranous 

 disk, with 2 horizontal or pendulous ovules in each cell. Drupe 

 obliquely globular, stone bony or crustaceous, 1 rarely 2-celled. 



M. Wiglitii, Planch, in Herb. Hook. ; Fl. Br. T. 2. 4 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 116. M. pu7igens, Wall. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 77. Hill Mango. 



A large tree of the W. Gh^ts, above £000 ft. elevation, not indigenous 

 in the Bombay Presidency. Leaves hard, coriaceous, lanceolate, distantly 

 toothed. 



Order 34. ANACARDIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple or compound, usually alternate 

 exstiymlate. Flowers usually regular, unisexual or hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx 3-5-partite. Petals as many as calyx divisions. Disk usually 

 annular. Stamens as many, often twice as many, as the petals, 

 inserted under the base of the disk_, all perfect or variously imperfect. 

 Ovary unilocular (in Spondias 5-celled), superior or half inferior ; 

 ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous from the top or wall or from an 



