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568 XXXVII. AiELiACE^. (W. P. Hiern.) [Chickrassia. 



contorted (as regarded from inside) erectopatent. Staminal tube cylindric, 

 ;10-crenate ; antliers 10, erect, inserted within the crenatures, short. Diili 

 obsolete. Ovary shortly stipitate, 3-celled, cells each v.ith numerous 

 "biseriate ovules ; style stout, stigma capitate. Ccqiside 3-celled, 'Bcpti- 

 cidally 3-valved, woody; valves consisting of two plates, sei^aratiag frpni 

 .the 3-winged axis. Seeds numerous, flattish, winged below, cxalbuuiiuous ; 

 cotyledons orbicular. — Cisteib. One endemic species. 



1. C. tabnlaris, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mm. xix. 251, t. 22. f. 27 ; leaflets 

 10-16 ovate more or less velvety especially beneath or nearly glabrous 

 base obtuse shortly petiolulate, panicles erect scarcely equalling thejeaves, 

 flowers yellowish or red, fruit ellipsoidal. W. <Sc A. Prodr. i. 1 23 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 61 ; Wig fit III. i. t. 56 ; B^dd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 9 ; Grah. tat. 

 Bomb. Fl. 32. Swietenia Chickrassia, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 33 ; Fl. Ind. u. m 

 Plagiotaxis Chickrassia, Wall. Cat. 1269. S. Sotrophola, //. Ham. ex \\ all- 

 Cat. Lc. p. 2U. C. Nimmonii, Grak ex Wight l.c. 148 ; Dalz. & Gihs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 38. P. velutina, Wall Cat. 1270. C. trilocularis, Roerru^ Synq^s. 

 Monogr. i. 135. S. trilocularis, Roxh. ex Buck Journ. i. 184 ; G.Don^en, 

 Syst. i. 688. C. velutina, Roemer l.a : Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Jieng. 

 xUl ii. 1873, 65. S. velutina and S. villosa. Wall, ex Kurz I.e. .Ccrei^ 

 spec. De Cand. \ Hb. Wight, ex Wall. Cat. 4892. 1 Cedrela velutma, V^- 

 Prodr. i. 625. ? Cedrela villosa, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 18. ? Melia toiuentoba, 

 Kurz. Rep. Veg. Andam. ed. I p. iv.. not of Roxburgh. % Toona velutiiw, 

 Roem. Synops. Monogr. i. 139. ? T. villosa, Roem. l.c. 140. 1 Cedrela odoraw, 

 Hort. Kew. dim ex Roem. \.c., not Linn. ' . - 



Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Cooi-g; Malacca and Ceylon ; (? Tippers 



and the Andaman Islands). ' ' ' ' '^' «ru 



& Leaves 12-18 in. ; leaflets 2-5 by 1^-23 in. Flomers about \-% in. '""S- /^ri 



hairy. Stifjma about on the level of the anthers. Fruk nearly 2 in. long,— IM ^^^ ^ 



ta^ong wood tree. 



18. CEDREXtA. Linn. 





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Tall trees with coloured wood. Leaves pinnate; leaflets "^"^^{Jg^.! 

 opposite or subopposite, entire or serrate. Panicles terminal ana. ^"" u 

 minal oblong ; flowers white peutamerous. C(dyx short, 5-cleft. f ^'^y.ug 

 erect, oval, imbricated, free. Stamens 4-6, free, inserted at the top oi 

 disk, sometimes alternating with staminodes, filaments subulate; anw 

 widely oblong, versatile. Uisk thick or raised, 4-6-lobed. Ovary sessue ^^ 

 the top of the disk, 5-celled ; cells alternate with the calyx-lobes, eacn « 

 8-12 biseriate pendulous ovules ; style filiform, stigma discoid, ^"f .^^ 

 coriaceous, 5-celled, septifragally 5-valved; valves consisting "f*^|! ?}:„„' 

 Seeds compressed, winged below or at both ends, with fleshy .^^"T,: J 

 cotyledons flat, subfoliaceous. — Distrib. About 12 species, uiliaDJi = 



Tropical Asia, Australia, and America. \, 



1. C. Toona, Roxb. ex Rottt. dt Willd. in Gesell Nat. Freunde ^- *^' JlJ 

 198 (1803) ; Hort, Beng. 18 ; Cor. PI. iii. t. 238 ; Fl. Ind. I 635 ; }^f^oT 

 obliquely ovate or lanceolate acutely acuminate glabrous shining ''" ^j. 

 serrate base obtuse petioluled, panicles drooping about as long as or e ^.^j^ 

 mg the leaves, pedicels short, stamens 5 occasionally 6 or alternaxn 8 . ^^ , 

 staminodes equalling the petals, capsule oblong. „W. <^-^-,f 'TV/ 38; 

 Wight Ic. t. IGl ;Bedd. H Svlv J t 10 ; dX & G^i- J^T^;/ Bluvi^ 

 Brandis Fl. Sylv. 72, t. 14 ; Wall Cat. 1272, 9041. C. febntuga, ^ 



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Bi^dr. 180. C. hexand¥a> Wall m ^xf^rFl Ind.ed. Carey u- ^^2^' ^f, 



1272. 1 C. longifolia. Wall Cat 1273. C. serrata/i?o^% HL t. 25 ^ uru 





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