W/w.] xxxvn. meliacej: (olivek). 337 



lhptical, apex rounded, shortly apiculate or mucronate, the upper usually 

 '-12 in. long, l|-4 in. broad ; petiolules very short or obsolete or from |-£ 

 »•, very thick in the larger leaves. Panicles many-flowered, \-2 ft. or longer ; 

 ateral branches spreading, short or elongate. Flowers in cymose clusters; 

 ledicels various, very short or slightly exceeding the flower. Teeth of the 

 aimnal tube rounded or subquadrate, entire or slightly emarginate. Ovary 

 '-4-6-celled, immersed in a thick annular disk with a rounded free margin'. 

 Jules 4-7 in each cell. Fruit about 4-5 in. in diam., subglobose. The seeds 

 'fiord an oil used by the natives.— C. guineensis, G. Don in Loud. Hort. 

 mt 168; A. Juss. Mem. Mel. t. 9. f. 21. C. Touloucouna, Gull, et Perr. 

 * Se »eg. i. 128 (see also Roemer, Syn. Hesp. i. 122-3). 



pper Guinea. Senegambia ! Sierra Leone, Barter ! Fernando Po, Barter ! Mann f 

 >'ger, Barter ! Aiiibaa Bay, Mann ! 



ave compared specimens in flower as well as fruits preserved in the Kew Museum from 

 "l"^ 1 America and West Africa, and I cannot find any specific difference between them, 

 e distinctions noted by Perrottet and quoted by A. Jussicu, T have little confidence in, 

 ussien i himself suspected that they might belong to one species. The Senegambiaii 

 ya is described as a large tree ; further south, according to Barter's labels, it occurs as 

 ^maii one. 



2. C. moluccensis, Lam. ,• DC. Prod. i. C2G. A perfectly glabrous 

 1 toral tree or shrub. Leaves 4-8 in., 2-jugate, rarely 1- or 3-jugate, or one 



the lateral leaflets deficient ; leaflets coriaceous elliptical- or oblanceolate- 



ong, obtuse, usually cuneate or narrowed to the petiole, 2£-5 in. long, 

 ~ a m. broad. Flowers cymose, in short racemose axillary or subterminal 

 S ? ?- r nearly sim P le racemes usually much shorter than the leaves. 



uicels divaricate, thickened upwards, equalling or exceeding the flower. 



y* 4- or 5-partite with rounded lobes. Teeth of staminal tube broad, 



■ T Se ' a P lcl 'li»te. Ovary 4-celled, the base surrounded by an adnate scarlet 



; ovules 2-4 in each cell. Fruit about the size of a child's head ; the 



'carp separating in 4 valves. Seeds very large, angular, with " a- thick 

 or *y testa {Kirk).—Xylocarpus Granatum, Keen. ; Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 328. 

 Hi 



°«amb. Distr. Month of the Zambesi, Dr. Ktrk ! 

 ■alia eU1 lr StWard in Madagascar, Cevlon, the Malayan Archipelago, and Northern Aus- 

 <rti«ii a tree affects m»ddv shores, throwing out' from the base of the trunk numerous 



°" ly flatten ^ radiating plates (Dr. Kirk). 



fi - KHAYA, A. Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 338. 



j*Na 4, rotundate, small, imbricate. Petals as many, contorted. Sta- 

 ll 8 > n'onadelphous ; tube 8-lobed at the mouth, lobes rounded, entire ; 

 n «8 included. Ovary 4-(3-)celled, surrounded by an annular disk, nar- 

 •^ into the style; stigma discoid. Ovules 10-14 in each cell, bwenate. 

 a Psue woody, separating septicidally. Seeds numerous, compressed or 

 of/1' albu «ii«ous.-A large tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Panicles 

 0m «* upper axils. 



ct ge r foun ^ upon a Senegambian plant of which I have not seen *rt*e«tfc .peri- 

 V 0L I appea,s t0 be well figured in Guilleinin and Perrottet, and » Jussien ^ Memoir, 



