388 DECANDRIA: MONOGYNIA. Walsura, 
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Teling. Wallursi. 
Tam. Walsura, 
A tree,a native of the mountainous parts of the Circars, 
It flowers during the cold season. Specimens of this, 
in the Banksian herbarium, are referred to Trichilia. 
Trunk erect. Bark ash-coloured ; in old trees deeply 
cracked. Branches very irregularly scattered, forming a 
thin head. Leaves alternate, petioled, subpinnate. Leaflets 
from two to four, alternate, oblong, entire, frequently 
emarginate, above smooth, of a deep, shining green, below 
whitish, from two to three inches long, and about one 
broad. Stipules none. Flowers numerous, small, of a dirty 
yellowish white colour, collected on small terminal pait- 
cles. Bractes minute, falling. Calyx interior, five-cleft, 
permanent. Petals five, equal, lanceolate, expanding. 
Nectary double; exterior cylindric, half the length of the 
petals, ten-cleft for two-thirds of its length; divisions 
emarginate, staminiferous ; interior, a fleshy ring sur 
rounding the base ofthe germ. _ Filaments ten, short, in-- 
serted into the notches of the divisions of the exterior 
nectary. Anthers oblong, erect. Germ roundish, sank 
deep into the interior nectary, two, rarely three-celled with 
two ovula in each, attached to the pattition. | Style the 
length of the exterior nectary. Stigma large, turbinates 
Berry oblong, downy, pulpy, one-celled. Seed one, larete : 
oblong, . 
This tree has nearly the flowers of Melia, Trichilia, 
and Swietinia, but the fruit of Murraya ; it may there 
fore constitute a new genus. 
The. wood serves .for various eidaguial peor ks 
am informed by the natives, that if the bark in quantity, 
is thrown into fish ponds, it soon kills the fish, which is 
believe is true, for it is rare to meet with a tree that has 
not been deprived of its bark. They do not esteem the 
fish the less wholesome, and it renders them easily 
caught, as they svon float, probably before they die; 05 — : e 
