388 DECANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Walsura. 



Tellng. "Wallursi. 



Tarn. 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, formino: a 

 thin head. Xeafes alternate, petioled, subpinnate. Leaflets 

 from two to four, alternate, oblonsr, entire, frequently 

 eraarginate, 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 pani- 

 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 of the germ. Filaments ten, short, in- 

 serted into the notches of the divisions of the exterior 

 nectary. Anthers oblong, erect. Germ roundish, sunk 

 deep into the interior nectary, two, rarely three-celled with 

 two ovula in each, attached to the partition. Style the 

 length of the exterior nectary. Stigma large, iarbina.ie. 

 Berry oblong, downy, pulpy, one-celled. Seed one, large, 

 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 economical purposes, I 

 am informed by the natives, that if the bark in quantity 

 is thrown into fish ponds, it soon kills the fish, which I 

 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 soon float, probably before they die ; as 



