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XXXVI. 



BURkERicE^.- (Alfred W. Bennett.) [j^n«««. 



Thwaiks, 1. c. 59, and in Hook Kew Journ, But. vi 66, t. i. B. E^f f^ci- 

 piens, W. dh A. Prodr. 172; Wight III. i. 184, t. Ib.—Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 45. 



Western Peninsula; throu£rhor.t the "Western Ghats ascending to 4-5000 ft., -cc* 



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Order XXXVIL MEIiIACE.a:. (By W. P. Hiem, M.A.) 



■ Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, usually pinnate rarely 

 simple or bipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, usually quite entire ana 

 more or less oblique at base. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious, 

 regular, usually in axillary panicles. Calyx 3-6-lobed rarely entire or wirn 

 free sepals, usually imbricated in bud. Petals 3-6, free or rarely connate ai 

 the base, sometimes adhering to the lower half of the staminal ^""^''^yfrg 

 imbricated or contorted. Htamens 4-12, inserted outside the base oi m 

 hypogynous disk, filaments connate in a tube or rarely free ; anthers erec^ 

 usually sessile on the tube, included or exserted, 2-celled, longituainauy 

 dehiscing. Hypogymms disk tubular annular or obsolete, free or co°" . 

 with the ovary. Ovary usually free, 2-5-celled ; style single, stigma msu^ 

 form oi* caiiitate • nvnlss 9 rarfilv mnrft. collateral or superposeo, rap ^ 



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aril.— DiSTEiB. About ¥oo'species7 mostly tVopic widely ^prpd over bot^ 

 hemispheres. Miquel enumerates 113 species as occurring in tne iu 

 Archipelago. ,'-, • ' . ' . q^, 



Swietenia Mahagoni, iinw. (Mahogany) has heen snccessfully cultivated near • 

 ' . e'htta and in Sikkim (Brandis For. Flor. 70) ; it is a native of the West Indies 

 . -Central Africa. '; :isl^ . ■ ■ wi! qtvle are 



. In the development of the flower of this Order the staminal-tube and the sij 



late in completing their growth. ' ' ■ ''Z'a'^M 



Heynichia malleoides, Kth. Ind. Sem. HoH. Berol. 1844 Coll.adnot. 8, ^'P^^^^^_^ 

 to have come from East India, is a species of Moschoxylum, near M. elesans,, ^- , 

 and probably came from South Amenca. ' . ' :/ i.- '* 



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Cells of ovanj 1-2-ovuled- 

 cotyledons thin, foliaceous. 



Leaves simple . . . , ^ .''•..•• 



Leaves trifoliolate pinnate or 2~3-p]nnate. ' 

 Flowers elongated. Style long. 



Petioles winged. Ovules collateral 



Petioles not winged. Ovules superposed. 



Di.^k tubular. Petals cobeiiug halfway. Fruit capsular, 



loculicidally 5-valved • • 



Disk annular. Petals free. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent 

 Flowers globose. Style rather short • • 



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