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ovate, with truncate bases and sub-acute apices, concave, densely ad^ 

 pressed-pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube njuch. shorter 

 than the petals, cylindric, rather fleshy, glabrous, the mouth with 8 

 broad shallow emarginate teeth : anthers 8, oblong, longer than the 

 tube, much exserted. Disc (if any) very small. Ovary broadly ovoid, 

 tapering into the short thick style which is sparsely pilose towards 

 the base : stigma thick, discoid, depressed iu the centre. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 10755. 



The disc in this plant, if present at all, mast be very small, for 

 I cannot detect it in the bud. In spite of this I refer it to Dysoxylum, 

 of which it has the general facies. The shrubby habit, short thick 

 spicate inflorescence, globular flower-buds, and the occasionally perr 

 forated leaves make this a remarkable and easily recognisable 

 plant, 



6. Amooba, Boxb. 



Trees. Leaves usually unequally-pinnate ; leaflets oblique, quite 

 entire. Flowers in axillary subdioeoious panicles, the females 

 sometimes spicate or laceraose, Galyx 3- 5-partite or -fid. Petals 3, thick, 

 concave, imbricated. Staminal tube snbrglobose or campanulate, entire 

 or inconspicuously 6-10-crenate ; anthers 3-10, included. Disc obsolete, 

 Ovary sessile, short, 3-celled; cells 1-2-ovuled, stigma sessile. Gap-^ 

 side sub-globose, coriaceous, 3-celled and -seeded, loculicidally 3-valved, or 

 indehiscent. Seeds in a fleshy aril, with ventral bile. — Distrib. A 

 genus of about 25 species occurring only in India and the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, and also 1 endemic species in Australia, 



The Indian species of Amoora, as this genus is understood by the most recent 

 botanical writers, fall into two groups. One of these (the old genus A'phanamixis) is a 

 very natural one. In this group the male flowers are in panicles with divergent 

 racemose or spicate branches, while the female flowers are in short racemes. The 

 flowers of both sexes have a 5-merous calyx, and a 3-merous corolla, 3 or 6 stamens, 

 3-celled ovaries and 3-celled loculicidally dehiscent capsular fruits. The other 

 group, named Pseudo-Aglnia by M. C. de Gandolle, consists of a number of species with 

 from 6 to 10 stamens, 3-celled-ovaries, and large stigmas. Some of these have 

 3 petals, others have 4 or 5. As regards fruit some of them {e.g., A. ciccwllata) have 

 .a 3-celled capsule like that of Aphanamixis -. others have fruits which show 

 no evidence of dehiscence. In treating this genus, I have excluded all the species 

 having more than 3 petals, and I have abandoned dehiscence in the fruit as a diag- 

 nostic character. In the note under the genus Aglaia, I have explained the change 

 which I have made in the staminal character of that genus. I may here add that 

 Amoora Chittagonga, Hiern, is certainly an Aglaia ; and that Amoora decandra 

 Jliem, with its 10 anthers in two rows, and 5-celled ovary and fruit, is more of tv 

 liansi%m than an Amoora, 



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