148 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 55. 
1, Walsura piscidia, natural size. 8. A fruit full grown—natural size. 
2. A detached flower. . The same cut transversely. : 
he same, the petals removed to show the deeply 10. The same opened, showing the arillus with its 
eleft staminal tube. enclosed seed. 
4, Detached stamens, back and front views. ll. A seed detached—natural size. 
5. Stamens removed, showing the annular disk with 12. Cut transversely—natural size : 
immersed ovary, the short style and large 2-cleft 13. A seed lobe, the radicle next the hilum—with the 
stigma. exceptions mentioned, all more or less magnified. 
6. The ovary cut vertically. _ Erratum. : 
7. The same cut transversely, 2-celled, with two col- For Walsura friscidea on the plate read piscidia. 
lateral ovules in each. 
XL.—CEDRELACE, 
This small order, long united with the preceding, and even now considered by some emi- 
nent Botanists as at most a sub-order, ranks among its species some of the most magnificent 
trees of the forest, not less famed for their size, than for the beauty of their timber ; not the 
least remarkable of which, in both these respects, is the Mahogany of America, and in the 
latter, the Satin wood of this country. It is principally distinguished from the preceding by its 
et winged, exalbuminous seed. Adr. de Jussieu gives the following character of the 
order. 
Calyx 4-5, cleft. Petals 4-5, longer. Stamens 8-10, either united intoa tube (Swieteniee) 
or distinct (Cedrede@) and inserted into an hypogynous disk. Style and stigma simple, cells 
of the ovary equal to the number of petals or fewer (3) with 4, or often more, ovules, imbri- 
cated in two rows, fruit capsular, with the valves separable from the dissepiments with which 
they alternate, (or, in Chloroxrylon, adherent, with loculicidal dehiscence). Seeds flat winged, 
albumen thin or none. 
_ Trees, usually with hard fragrant, and beautifully coloured wood, alternate, exstipulate, 
pinnated leaves. Panicles terminal or subterminal, large, rarely axillary. F i 
bisexual, that is, the ovaries of some becoming depauperat 
mens, while in others the pollen is wanting and the ovary is perfect and fertile. 
AFFINITIES, These are the same as Meliaceae, from which th 
by their winged and indefinite seeds, The pellucid dots in the ] 
another link of affinity between these orders and Aurantiaceae, 
ey are chiefly distinguished 
eaves of Chloroxrylon establish 
his memoir in | 14 species only were known to him, and I am 
: : fae ; t aware of the list having 
since then been augmented Saks ae dae aes 
received from Mr Ni sit = by the publication of additional species. I have however recentl 
mmo, of Bombay, specimens of a Chickrassia, which he thinks new, and 
glabrous on both sides. "The specimen not being i 
wee: aera: § in 
tther, but I think it will prove a good peci : 
tion to the order. . Pars, rete 
Propervizs anv Uses. Nearly all the s; 
ful property. The Swietenia Mahogoni afford Fhe Deantiey ne rare Temarkable for some wae 
Th I : k of th S . 7 8 “ 18 the beautiful and highly m 
fe ebrifagal pro} es y t (Swietenia) Sebrifi pi 1 i 
