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560 XXXVII. MELiACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) [Amoora. 



glabrescent, base more or less narrowed, panicles racemose rather lax mucQ , 

 shorter than the leaves, calyx cup-shaped 3-toothed, petals 3, anthers 6, 

 ovary 2-celled, fruit obovoid. Aglaia chittagonga, Miq. in Ann. Mtti 

 Litgd.'Bat, iv. 44. — Meliacea, Griff. Itin. Notes 168. 



' Bhotan and Upper Assam, Griffith; the Khasia Mts., Chittagong, J.D,M.& 

 T. T. (Milnea, No. 13); Pegu, Kurz. - ,>', 



- 'A tree. Leaves 6-12 in.; leaflets 3-8 by 1-3 in. ; petiolule J-J in. Flowers jVi ^^', 

 long, pedicelled. Fruit (immature?) § in. long, longitudinally ridged, 2-celled. .^ '' 



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3. 4l. canarana, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 335 ; young parts inflo- 

 rescence calyx and fruit lepidote, leaflets 4-6 alternate or subalternate 

 narrowly elliptic acuminate glabrate above usually punctate-lepidote 

 beneath, base more or less narrowed shortly petiolulate, panicles pyramidal 

 much branched shorter than the leaves, flowers stiortly pedicelled, calyx 

 4-5-toothed cup-shaped ebracteate, corolla 3- (-4) -partite, staramal tube 

 truncate, anthers 6 (-7) included or slightly exserted, ovary 3-celled, cells 

 2-ovuled, fruit obovoid. Oraoma canarana, Tiircz. in Bidl Soc. Nat. MofC. 



1858, L 411. 



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Western Peninsula, from Canara, Stocks, to the Anamallay hills, Beddome. ' . ' 



r^-24 in. ; petiolule J-| m. Fruit (immat'ore.J 



Leaves 6-14 in. ;- leaflets 3-6 by 1 

 f in. long. 



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Leaflets 3-13 opposite 



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, 4 A.k cucnllata, Roxb. Cw. PL iii. 54, t. 258 ; subglabrous, leaflets 3-1^ 

 opposite or subopposite obliquely ovate-oblong obtuse at both ends 

 glabrous shining firm terminal one often hooded at the apex, male panicles 

 drooping about as long as the leaves with numerous diverging brancnes 



anthers 



3-celled 



1, calyx 3-lobea, pe"^^' "- 

 hxiit subglobose , 3;lobed 



1 3-valved. Dalz. dt Gibs. Bonib. Fl 37; Brury Ind. ft.i. x"- 

 5onia cucullata, i?ox6. iTor^. Beng. 87 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 212. Sphaerosacine 

 ka, Wall. Cat. 1 278, excl. syn. S. ? laxa, Wcdl. Cat. 4894. b. pa^K 

 Wall. Herb, ex Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bai. iv. 37. ? Amoora aun- 



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H Bengal, in the Sunderbunds. and in Nipal. Wallich : King's Island m I e 

 AxDAMANs, Heifer. 



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A tree of considerable size and slow growth with cinereous bark and smooth P^ap^ • 

 fare* 6-1 6 in. ; leaBets 3-74 by H-2h in. ; petiolule J-f in. or terminal one long^; 



Male fl. ^ in. yellow. Bracts caducous, 2 at the base of the calyx. ^('^"'j.^'Z-lu ,' 

 turbinate or subglobose. Capatde 2i in. diam,' Seeds three-quarters coverea wi . , 



fleshy bright orange-coloured aril. 





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6. A. lanceolata, Hiem; subglabrous, leaflets about 17 opP^^|J^j^^ 

 •^rsubopposite approximated lanceolate obtusely acuminate glabrous smu c 

 '^ * base obtuse lateral veins inconspicuous, male panicles nearly ^^^^^ ^^^iust 



leaves, flowers 3-merous shortly pedicelled, calyx trifid, anthers o j 



included, ovary in the male flowers rudimentary. 



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^ Moots angular at^the apex, leafy and with numerous axillaiy pMjcl^s. ^f^^^^^ie 

 10 m.; leaflets 2-3 by 4-1 fn.; petiolule ^-i, in. i^Zouj^r^ very small. ^^^^C.^.ui- 



trigonous, glabrous. ^« 



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