SAPINDACE.X. fuss. The soap tribe of plants or soap-worts ; trees or shrubs with erect or climbing steins. The order is divided into four tribes viz. Sapindese, Acerinem Dodonceem, and StaphYlem. The chief plants of the East Indies genera and species may be thus shown :— Cardiospermum halicacabum, L., all India.
C. canescens, Wall., Burma.
Sioja sanguinaria Ruch., Goalpara, Sylhet, Ara. Schmidelia serrat'a, D. Cf., Peninsula of India, Bengal. S. aporetica, Roxb., Sylhet.
S. ,glabra, Roxb.,-Chittagong.
S. villosa, Wight, Chittagong.
S. dentata, Wall., Amain.
S. cobbe, Redd., S. India.
Sapindus sapinaria, L., West Indies.
S. laurifolius, Vahl. Peninsula of India.
S, emarginatus, Vita, Peninsula of India.
S. detergens, Rozb., Bengal.
S. rubiginosus, Roxb., both Peninsulas of India. S. polyphyllus, Roxb., Pegu.
S. undulatus, TVall., —? S. acuminatus, Wall., Nepal, Himalayan valleys. S. fruticostts, Roxb., Moluccas.
S. clanura, Roxb. Sunderbuns.
S. angustifolius, Khassya.
S. attenuatus, Wall., Assam.
Cupania canescens, Pers., Circars, Kandalla.
C. lwvis Pers., Bourbon, Mauritius.
C. Roxl;urghii, Wight, Sylhet.
C. glabrata, .Kurz.
C. pentapetala, TV. and A.
C. sapida, Cambess, Guinea, cultivated in India.
C. Madagascarensis, G. Don, cultivated.
Harpulia cupanioides Roxb., Chittagong.
Baccaurea Pierardi, Tiperah, Burma, Cochin China.
B. affinis, Mull.
B. Courtallensis B. flaccida, Mui/. • B. parviftora, Mull.
B. propinqua, Mull.
B. sapida, Mull.
B. dulcis, Wall., Penang, Sumatra.
Nephelium lichi W. and A., China, cultivated in India. N. rimosum, 17. and A., Sylhet.
N. lappaceum, L., Rambutan, N.E. Archipelago.
N. longan, Cambess, China, Cochin-China, both Pen. of India, IChassya.
N. pyroleucum, Kurz.
N. rubescens, Hiern.
N. stipulaceum, Redd.
N. rubrum, TVight, Sylhet.
N. verticillatum, Wall., Moluccas.
N. variable, TVall., Khassya.
Schleichera trijuga, TVillde., Peninsula of India. Melicocca bijuga, Linn. Jamaica, Eastinclies. Xolreutera paniculata, 'Lam., China.
Doclonma Burmannia, D.C., Peninsula of India.
D. dioeca, Roxb., Hindustan.
D. viscosa, Himalaya.
./Esculus Coleb,, Kashmir.
.,E. punduana, Khrtmaya, Burma.
Pornetia tomentosa, Blh. Andaman.
Staphylea emodi, Wall., 'NAN'. Himalaya.
The leechee and the longan are produced by the genus Neplielium. Thew fruits are sweet, with a sub-acid flavour; they are considered a great luxury in China, and are stilt at a great expense from the provinces of Foh - kien and Kwang tung, where they grow, to Pekin, for the consumption of the emperor. Sspindus is remarkable for bearing a pulpy fruit, the outer part of which has been used, on account of its detergent properties, as a soap. In China, the seeds of a Sapindus, besides their value in cleansing, are worn as beads, because,' say the Buddhists, all demons aro afraid of the wood ;' one Chineiso name means preveutive of evil. The leechee succeeds well in most parts of India. N. longan and N. lappaceum, the Rambutan of the Malayan Archipelago, yield edible fruits, as well as N. rimosum and N. rubrum, both inhabit ants of the Sylhet district. So are those of Meli coeca trijuga, called even in the distant parts of India where this tree is indigenous, kusoombha and kusum, and where, as in the Doon in April, it may be readily recognised at a distance by the red colour of its young leaves. All its parts of fructification are liable to considerable variation. The pulpy sub-acid aril forms a grateful fruit ; the wood is hard, and used as timber. Schmidelia serrata, of which the root is said to be astringent, yields also an edible fruit. The wood of several species is close-grained and hard, and forms valuable timber, as of Sapindus rubiginosus, and of the longan and N. lichi, the latter also one of the most ornamental of trecs.—Royle ; Rozb. ; Voigt ; Eng. Cyc. ; Williams' Midd. Kingd. p. 286.