ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 149 
this country by the cabinet-maker, while the Chlororylon Swietenia affords the beautiful and 
fragrant Satin wood, and lastly, the Toon tree (Cedred/a toona) inferior to none of the others fur- 
nishes a beautiful timber, resembling Mahogany, while the bark has nearly all the medicinal 
properties of the Soymida, and lastly, the flowers are used in Mysore in dying cotton, a beau- 
tiful red colour. Endowed with so many useful properties it seems desirable that the cultiva- 
tion of almost every species should be attempted on a large scale. The Chittagong wood tree, 
the Toon and the Satin wood, are all found in the neighbouring jungles, and I think also, the 
Soymida, but I have not seen them in cultivation. 
Remarks on Genera AND Species. The genera of this order, like those of Meliaceae, 
naturally divide themselves into two sections, those namely, having the filaments free to near 
the base, and exalbuminous seed, (Cedreleae) and those having their filaments united into a 
tube and albuminous seed: to the first of these sections Cedrelae and Chlororylon belong, to 
the second Chickrassia and Soymida are referable, and with the exception of the new species 
of Chickrassia no recent additions have been made. The accompanying plates exhibit a species 
of each of these tribes. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 56, 
1. Chickrassia tubularis, natural size. 5. Ovary cut transversely, 5-celled, with two rows of 
2. A flower, fully expanded. ovules in each. 
3. Stamen tube split open, showing the ovary, style, 6. The same cut transversely, 
and stigma. 7. A full grown fruit. 
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4. Anthers back and front views. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 57. 
1. Chloroxylon swietenia, natural size. 8. Cut transversely. 
. An expanded flower. 9. A valve of the capsule, showing the seed imbri- 
3. Stamens back and front views. cated. 
4. Ovary and cup-shaped torus. 10, A seed, the apex winged. 
5. Ovary cut vertically. 11. The same, cut obliquely across the base. 
6. Cut transversely, 3-celled, with several ovules in 12, A seed cut transversely, showing the wing. 
each cell. 3. A seed lobe, with the radicle superior—all more or 
7. A full grown capsule burst, showing it 3-valved, less magnified, 
with loculicidal dehiscence. 
XLIL.—AMPELIDE., 
This small, but from including the Grape-vine, very important order, for the most part 
consists of diffuse or scandent plants, climbing by means of tendrils, and is with few exceptions 
confined to the tropics or the warm countries bordering on them, but within these limits its 
species abound. 
In most modern systems of Botany it is divided into two suborders, Viniferae and Leeaceae, 
the former characterized by their sarmentose scandent habit, and by being furnished with ten- 
drils (sterile peduncles) opposite the leaves, by the petals and stamens being distinct to the base, 
and by the ocillatory anthers: the latter by the plants not being scandent and without tendrils, 
by the petals, usually, united at the base, by the stamens being monadelphous and by the an- 
thers not ocillating. 
