ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
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Ceylon I have specimens of a plant apparently belonging to it, and most probably a species of 
Xylocarpus, but which, for want of fruit | am 
MUNRONIA, R. W. 
Calyx 5, rarely 4-cleft. Petals 
base, with the staminal tube. An 
Ovules su 
ointed remote from the 
with the leaves 
lary, one or several flowered, flowers white, sometimes 
fragrant. 
This genus which I have named in honor of my 
zealous and enterprising friend, Lieut. Munro, H. M. 
39th Foot, is most nearly allied to Naregamia, but 
abundantly distinct and readily distinguistied by its 5, 
pe plea ovary, and its superposed not collateral 
ovules, 
-M. pumila, (R. W. Icones plant. Ind. Or. Nu. 91) 
Leaves trifoliolate, the terminal ove much larger than 
the lateral leaflets. 
Melia pumila, Moon! Catalogue of Ceylon plants, 
. 35. 
Hab.—Ceylon, 
Moon's specimens I had an opportunity of examining, 
and I have specimens collected by Colonel Walker. 
M. Neilgherrica, (R. W.) Shrubby, leaves congested 
towards the summit, unequally pinnate, about 3-paired, 
leaflets ovate, acute, glabrous: cymes several, axillary 
and terminal, lobes of the calyx foliaceous, hairy. 
Hab.—Neilgherries and Coorg.—Munro, 
A charming low shrub, with pure white very fragrant 
flowers. 
M. Wallichii, (R.W.) Shrubby, leaves unequally 
pinnate, leaflets about 3 pairs, obliquely cordate at the 
base, tapering towards the point. 
EXPLANATION 
I. Munronia Neilgherrica, natural siz2. 
2. A detached flower, calyx 5-sepaled. 
- Another flower, dissected, the staminal tube split 
open, showing the sheath of the ovary, style and stigma, 
Calyx in this instance 4-sepaled. 
4. Back and front vi thers. 
cut transversely, showing its 5 cells placed 
> Vvary cut vertically, showing the ovules super- 
posed, 
7. A fall grown capsule—natural size. 
communicated by Lieut. Munro. 
Turrea pinnata, Wall. Pl. as. rar. 2.21. tab. 119. 
Hab.—Silhet. 
This species I only know from Wallich’s plate and 
description, which, though defective in the analysis, 
agrees so well in habit as scarcely to leave 
en 
h h genus 
it ought to be referred. He adds “ that it seems to ap- 
e union of its 
nd by 
- Wallich however, supposes that the 
ovary has 5 cells, with 5 erect ovules, but these charac- 
i with marks of w 
here and changing the specifie name as all the species 
have pinnate leaves. 
AMOORA, 
) Leaves pinnate, leaflets ovate, 
A. fictformis, (R. W. 
fruit ficiform, axillary, solitary, sub- 
oblique at the base, 
sessile, 
Hab.—Jn Woods.—On the Shevagherry mountains 
near Courtallum. 
specimens are too imperfect, being in fruit 
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. 
only, 
rom 
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three species may be thus briefly distin 
guished, 
ciform’s, female flowers axillary, solitary, or from 
of fallen leaves, subsessile on the branches. 
OF PLATE 54. 
8, The same dehiscing, 
9. A single valve detach : 
10. A seed, not quite mature—natural size. 
11. The same, the testa removed, showing the large 
as yet soft albumen, : 
| howing the embryo with the 
7 mentioned, 
ehiscence loculicidal. 
ed. 
The same divided, s 
radicle next the hilam—with the exceptions 
all more or less a see : | 
The drawing of the plant is made from a preserved 
specimen—that of the fruit from a fresh capsule, both 
