Lansium,] 



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^v, i. 121, are probably also varieties of this cultivated species. L. silrestre, 

 Eoemer^ I.e. according to Miquel, I.e. scarcely belongs to Meliacese; the plant iuteuJed 

 b; this name Las been referred by De Candolle to Cookia punctata, Betz. 



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-frees. Leaves usually unequally-piimate ; leaflets oblique quite entire 

 axillary subdioecious, paniculate ; female spicate or racemose. Cah/x 3-5- 

 partite or -fid. Petals 3-5, thick, concave, imbricated, rarely slightly com- 

 *^^l*?.4 at the base. Staminal tvbe subglobose or campanulate, incon- 

 spicuously 6-10-crenate; anthers 6-10, included, Dkh obsolete. Ovary 

 sessile, short, 3-5-ceIled; cells 1-2-ovuled; stigma sessile, or style elon- 

 gated in A. Champimiii. Capsule subglobose, coriaceou?:, 3-4-celled and 

 ^eeded, loculicidally 3-5-valved. Seeds'in a fleshy aril, with ventral hile. — ' 

 DiSTRiB. A genus of about 15 spe(iies occurring only in India and the 

 "alayArcliipelago, and also 1 endemic species in Australia. 



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Sect. I. Style short ; staminal tube subglobose or turbinate. 



Panicles ^ficate^ male branched^ female simple or hrandied ; flowers sub- 

 ^^ue, Staminal tube G-toothed; anthers 6. - 



1- A. Rohituka, TT. & A. Prodr. L 119; young parts tawny closely 

 pubescent in most cases quickly glabrescent leafy, leaflets 9-15 more or less 

 ^ihptic or ovate acuminate opposite base usually obtuse shortly petiolulate, 

 flowers white bracteate subsessile, male spikes panicled, female simple, 

 ?^yx 5-partite, petals 3, anthers 6, ovary 3-c elled with 2 superposed ovules 

 Jl each cell. Bedd, Fl Sijlvat. t. 132 (but pedicels M in. lon<2:); Bran- 

 aw /o?'. Fl 69. Andersonia Rohituka, 7?ox6. Hort. Beng. 87 ; Fl Ind. ii. 

 ^3 • Koxb, Drawings in Hb. Kew. tt. 934, 1827. Sphserosacme polystachya, 

 ^all. Cat 1277. Aglaia ? polystachya, Wall in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed, Carejf, 

 *J-429. S. ST)icata, TIW/. Cat. 4895. Buchanania spicata Hb, Boxb. ex Wall Lc. 

 ^leiiacea Wightiana, Wall Cat. 4888. Amo^ra macrophylla, Nimnio in 

 y/A' Cat Bomb, PI 31. Andersonia Eohitoca, Grif. NotuL. iv. 507 ; Ic. 

 ^^'AsiatiY.t 589, f. 3. 



Assam, Sjlhet, Cachar, Oudh, Western Peninsula from Ooncan to Travancore, 

 AENAssERiM and the Andaman Islands, Malacca, Ceylon.— Distrib. Malay Archi- 



P^'^go, Phiiippine Islds. 



An evergreen tree with a large crown of branches. Leaver 1-3 ft.; leaflets 3-9 

 V ^s-4 in." Male panicles equalling or shorter than the leaves, female about half the 

 .^^gth of the leaves; male flowers J, female \ in. lonp Stigma trigonous, angles 

 ^Posite the calyx-lobes. Fruit smooth, pale yellow or reddish, 1-1 i in. diam., scarcely 

 «»ennate at the base, rather soft and fleshy, 3-celled, 3-valved.— The seeds supply an 

 jcpnomic oil.— Col. Beddome, in his Flora Sylvatica, t. 132, figures and describes under 

 ^8 name a form from the Anamallay lulls with shortly pedicelled flowers, the pedicels 

 measuring ^^ in. long. A plant gathered by Dr. Hooker in the Sikkim Terai and 

 f^nraiong with verylaree leaves, the leaflets measuring 12-15 by 3-6 in., may belong 

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