Tarjinia.] 
XLIII. STAPHYLEACEJE. 
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Order XLIII. STAPH YLEACE/E. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, compound. Flowers small 
white regular panicled. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 5 outside 
the flat or ring-like disc. Ovary 2- to 3-lobed; styles 3, free or 
connate. Fruit a drupe or berry 3-celled. Seeds few or many. 
Genera 22, species 5, Europe, N. America, Asia. 
1. TURPINIA, Vent. 
Glabrous trees. Leaves pinnate 3- to 5-foliate sub-coriaceous 
opposite. Panicles axillary, and falsely terminal, lax of small white 
Fig. 50. — Turpinia trifoliata. 
flowers bisexual. Calyx 5-lobed imbricate. Petals 5 imbricate. 
Stamens 5 insert outside the lobed disc. Ovary sessile 3-lobed, 
3-celled; styles 3 free or not. Fruit sub-globose green fleshy, 
3-celled. Styles 2 or 3 distinct at tip. Species about 12, India 
and Malaya and America. 
Leaflets 3. 
Flowers -3 in. across in a short panicle 2 to 3 in. long . (1) T. trifoliata 
Leaflets 5. 
Flowers *15 in. across in lax panicle 8 in. long . . {2) !. latifolia 
Flowers 'i in. across^.panicle; 15 in. long very lax . (3) T. Iaxiflora 
(1) T. trifoliata Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. By. 82, p. 178. 
Tree. Leaflets 3 distant elliptic blunt or cuspidate acuminate 
crenulate or blunt serrate sub-equal, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide; central 
