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No. 63. 
Atalaya hemiglauca, F.v.M. 
The Western Whitewood. 
(Natural Order SAPINDACEyE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus Atalaya, Blume. 
Flowers .—Regular, polygamous. 
Sepals .—5, much imbricate in the hud. 
Petals .—5, exceeding the sepals, with an inner scale or tuft of hairs. 
Disk. —Annular. 
Stamens. —8, inserted inside the disc. 
Ovary. —3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 
Style. —Short, undivided. 
Fruit. —Separating into 3 distinct carpels or’ samara?, 1-celled, 1-seeded, and indeliiscent at the 
base, terminating in a long wing. 
Seeds. —Without any arillus, testa coriaceous ; cotyledons thick, unequal. 
Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves. —Pinnate, or rarely simple. 
Flowers .—Usually larger than in Cupania and Ratonia, in axillary or terminal panicles. 
Botanical description.— Species, A. hemiglauca , F. Muell. Herb. 
A tall shrub or small tree, quite glabrous except the flowers, and more or less glaucous. 
Leaves .—Usually pinnate ; leaflets few, from narrow oblong to linear, obtuse or scarcely acute, 
from 2 to 3 or 7 or 8 in. long, often somewhat falcate, narrowed at the base but rarely 
petiolulate, rigidly coriaceous, with numerous pinnate and reticulate veins and a somewhat 
thickened margin, the common petiole terete or nearly so ; sometimes, however, the petiole 
becomes winged, or the leaves are quite simple, oblong, or linear, or the leaflets are decurrent 
on the petiole, forming a large 2- or 3-lobed leaf, or rarely the simple leaf is ovate lanceolate, 
and 8 to 10 inches long. 
Panicles .—Rather dense, the rhachis and branches glabrous, or nearly so; pedicels 1 to 2 lines 
long. 
Sepals. —Orbicular, nearly glabrous, 1| or the inner ones nearly 2 lines long. 
Petals .—Pubescent, oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, with a hirsute scale at the base. 
Filaments .—Pubescent. 
Ovary.—Densely silky-pubescent. 
Samara ;.—Pubescent, with minute appressed hairs, 1 to 1J inches long, including the wing, 
which is nearly as broad as long, the cavity hairy or nearly glabrous inside.—(B FI. i, 463.) 
