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I have seen only Maingay's imperfect specimens of this. The above 

 description is copied chiefly from Hiei-n. 



4. Sandoricum indicum, Cav. Diss. VII, p. 359, tt., 202, 203. 

 A tree 30 to 40 feet high. Leaves 9 to 18 in. long; leaflets broadly 

 ovate to ovate-rotund, shortly and abruptly acuminate, tlie base rounded 

 or sub-caneate, slightly unequal ; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, spread- 

 ing, impressed on the upper, prominent on the lower surface when dry; 

 uppar surface glabrous, lower pubescent or puberulous, becoming 

 glabrescent when old ; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 4"75 in. ; lateral 

 petiolules 3 to 4 in., terminal 2 to 3 in. Panicles several, scattered 

 near the apices of the branches, only a few inches long, few-floweied, 

 minutely rusty-tomentose. Floivers '4: or '5 in. long; pedicels '25 in., 

 pubescent. Calyx minutely tomentose. Petals linear-elliptic, obtuse, 

 fleshy, glabrous. Staminal tube narrow, fleshy, striate, glabrcscent out- 

 side and puberulous inside. Fruit sub-globose, obtusely 5-angled at 

 least when young, densely but minutely pubescent, 1'5 to 2 in. in diam., 

 filled with a yellowish acid edible pulp ; arillus with many spongy 

 woody fibres; seed brown, glossy. W. & A. Prodr. i. 120 ; Blunie Bijdr. 

 I. 163 ; Adr. Jus. in Mem. Mus. xix. t. 16, f. 15 ; Hassk. Retzia, i. J46 ; 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. 58, t. 261 ; PI. Ind. ii. 392; Wall Cat. 1249; Kurz 

 For. PI. Burma, I, 217; Heirn in Hook, fib PI. Br. Ind. I, 553; De 

 Cand. Mon. Phan. I, 4(31 ; Miq PI. Ind. Bot. I ?t. 2., p. 541. Sandoricum 

 nervosum, Blume Bijdr. I., 165 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 30. 

 8. ternatum, Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. i. 346. 8. glaherrimum, Hassh. 

 Retzia, i. 145. Trichilia nervosa, Vahl Synih. i. 31. Melia Koetjape, 

 Btirm. Fl. Ind. 101. T. venosa, 8preng. Syst. iii. &^, 



In all the Provinces except the Nicobar Islands. Distrib. Siam ; 

 the Malayan Archipelago, Burma. 



The fruit of this is edible, and on that account the species is occa- 

 sionally cultivated. 



3. Mkgaphtllj^a, Hemsl. 



A tree. Leaves large, pinnate ; leaflets opposite, slightly oblique. 

 Panicles extra-axillary, narrow and raceme-like, shorter than the le!i,ves. 

 Flowers more than 1 in. across when expanded Galyx cupular, fleshy, 

 sub persistent, annulate and thickened below the middle ; its tube 

 adnata to the bise of the ovary, ifs mouth inegiilarly 3 to 5-lobL'd. 

 Petals 10, narrowly elliptic, thickly coriaceous, in two rows, free, imbri- 

 cate. Staininal-tube cyUndric, its month obscurely creiiulate; anLheis 

 10, included. Disk cnshioi. -shaped, mauy-lobed. Otmry seated on the 

 disk, depressed, 7- to 9.celled ; stvle thick, stigma capitate, ovules one 

 from the central angle of each cell. Capsule large, sub-spherical, 7- to 



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