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Carapa.l xxxvii. meliace^. (VV. P. Hiern.) 56? 



dissepiments. Seeds large, thick, angular • testa hard, spongy, aril 0. hilum 

 iarge, ventral; cotyledons amygdaloid.— Distrib. A genus of scarcely more 

 tnaa 2 species, one Tropical American, the other from Tropical Asia, both 



However occurring in Tropical Africa on the west and east coast re- 

 spectively. 



The character of the genus given above is based on the latter species ; it constitutes 

 Mnig 8 genus Xylocarpus. ' 



A ^' moluccensis, Lam. Encyl. Meth. i, 621 • leaflets from ovate to 

 ODovate usually obtuse very shortly petiolulate, panicles lax shorter than the 

 weaves sometimes in simple racemes. Bedd, Flor. Sylv. t. 136; Wall 

 i5^v^" ^'"^"^^^^^^ J^^'i'i^ Diet Sc. Nat \n.Z2. C. oho\^tB.,Blume£ijdK 

 ijJ*. Xylocarpus Granatum, Koen. Natitrf. xx. 2; Adr, Juss, in Mem. Mus. 

 ^'t. 20, f. 22. X. obovatus, Ad7\ Juss. I.e. 244. X. moluccensis, Boem. 

 oymps. i. 124. Granatum littoreum, Rumph. Amb, iii. 92, t. 61. Monosoma 

 Uttorata, Grif. NotuL iv. 502. Cfr. Guarea oblongifolia, Griff, I.e. 503. 



Muddy seacoasts throughout India and Ceylon. — Distkib. Tropical Africa, Malayan 

 ^chipeiago and N. Australia. 



■ Leavers 4-8 in. ; leaflets 2-5 by 1-2A in. Panicles 1-5 in. long; flowers J-4in. long, 

 jellowish. Fruit 3-4 in. diam. ' ^ ■ ^ 



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ohf ^ glabrous tree. Leaves paripinnate ; leaflets opposite, entire, 

 ^tuse. Panicles axillary and terminal ; flowers greenish-white, pentame- 

 ^\ Calj/x composed of 5 short imbricated sepals. Petals free, imbri- 

 J^Y obovate, unguiculate, spreading. Staminal tube short, cup-shaped, 

 flat vi' ^^^^ bidentate : antliers 10, sessile between the teeth, short. I)isk 

 jat. , Omry 5-celled ; cells alternate with the sepals, each with about 12 

 spnf^^*^ pendulous ovules ; style short, stigma broad, fleshy. Capsule 

 eptitragally 5-valved, woody ; valves consisting of two plates, separating 

 ^ the 5-winged axis. Seeds numerous, flattish, "v\anged at both ends, 

 ^oununous; cotyledons foliaceous.— Distkib. One endemic species; two 



other 



Africa have been conjecturally 

 genus. " , 



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rJ- S;, *ebrifugra, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mm. xix. 251, t. 22, f. 26 ; leaflets 

 "T^-^ elliptic or oblong base usually oblique shortly petioluled, panicles 

 5^«n equalling the leaves branches divaricate. W. d: A. Frodr. i. 122; 

 S' t ^'^■'- ^''^' Fl. 38 ; Bcdd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 8 ; Forest Reports Madraji. 

 °^'^7, t. 2; Braadis Fl. Sylvat. 71. Swietenia febrifuga, Roxh. Monn- 

 vTl' <^'«''- ^^- i. t. 17 : Fl.Ind. ii. 398 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Fl. 32; Wall. 

 r?L;?^i^ S. Soymida, Duncan Tent. Inaug. de Sw. S. (1794). S. rubra, 

 ^^^-l^all. Cat.\mo. 



»»,j y ^stricts of North Western Central and Southern India, extending south- 



Leaves nearly 

 Flowers 



everS- a veiy hard dull rcd-colourcd wood, one of the most durable. Lei 



abom f"' 9-13 in. ; leaflets 1^-5 hy |~2f in. ; petiolules mostly very short. - -.-... - 



U/ ^^r"' ,^°g' bracts ovate-deltoid, small. Capsule smooth, black when npe, 1-24 m. 



erstronff; bark bitter.-- ^ ^- .^ . .u^,,,. 





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mT?"^ acuminate oblique entire leaflets, terminal panicles and 4-5- 

 ^"U8 flowers. ' Cal>/x short, dentate. Fetals oblong, frte/ -"-+-— i" 



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