. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 100 XXXIX. RAPINDACEiE [Schleichera Stamens 6-8, longer tlian calyx, filaments more or less hairy, disk flat undu- late. Ovary 3-4-eelled, style rigid, stigma sometimes capitate, 3-4-cleft, one erect ovule in each cell, Fr. 1 in. long, usually echinate, seeds 1 or 2, testa brown, enclosed in a succulent arillus of pleasantly acid taste, cotyledons of oil. SnbliimaLayan tract, from tlie Sutle] eastward, abcendmg to 3,000 ft., Central Provi
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 100 XXXIX. RAPINDACEiE [Schleichera Stamens 6-8, longer tlian calyx, filaments more or less hairy, disk flat undu- late. Ovary 3-4-eelled, style rigid, stigma sometimes capitate, 3-4-cleft, one erect ovule in each cell, Fr. 1 in. long, usually echinate, seeds 1 or 2, testa brown, enclosed in a succulent arillus of pleasantly acid taste, cotyledons of oil. SnbliimaLayan tract, from tlie Sutle] eastward, abcendmg to 3,000 ft., Central Provinces, Western Peninsula. Burma, on tlie Shan plateau to 5,000 ft. (CoUett). Nob o-iegarious, singly or a few together, mixed with, the other trees of the deciduous forest. The old leaves are shed January, February, the young foliage comes out towards the end of March or early m April, Avhile the other trees of the dry forest are btill leafless, the shoots deep red. Fl. ^\ith the young leaves. Malay Arclii- pelago. Xerospernimn muncatum, Badlk. (X noronhlanum, Kurz; F. Fl. i. 295, not of Bl.) Tenasserim. A small evergreen tree. Leaflets 1 or 2 pair, reticulate veins conspicuous. Fl small, in slender axillary often fasciculate raceme^, sepals 4, imbricate, the outer buialler, petals 4, scales 0. Ovary 2-celled, style 1, short, fruiting carpels densely FiCr. 86.—Sapindus laurifolius, Vahh J. 10. SAPINDUS, Linn.; M. Brit. Ind. L G82., excluding ApJmaia, but including Dlttelasma, 671. Trees. L. alternate, paripinnate. occasionally unifoliolate, stipules 0. Fl. c? and c?. Sepals 5, unequal, petals 4 or 5, nearly equal, disk fleshy, circular or one-sided. Stamens usually 8, filaments hairy, anthers'versatile. Ovary 34olDed, 1 ovule in each cell, style 1. Fr. coriaceous or fleshy, consisting. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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