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branches spreading, tlie ultimate branchlets 2- to 3-flowered. Flowers 

 on short pedicels, obovoid-rotund, "1 iu. long. Calyx cupular, paberu- 

 lous outside, with 3 broad blunt teeth. Petals 3, longer than the calyx, 

 rotund, concave, slightly puberulous on the back and edges. Staminal 

 tube broadly ovoid, the mouth wide and with 9 broad bifid teeth ; an- 

 thers 10, elliptic, their apices exserted. Ovary depressed, tawny-pubes- 

 cent, 3-celled : stigma large, cylindric, glabrous, sulcate. Fruit depress- 

 ed-globular, mammillate, 2 in. in diam., minutely rusty puberulous, 3- 

 celled (one cell abortive), pericarp thickly coriaceous, almost fleshy. C. 

 DC. Monog. Phan. I, 589. 



Singapore : Maingay Herb. prop. No. 3351 (Kew Distrib. No. 355 ). 

 Perak : King's Collector, No. 6944 ; Wray, No. 2349. Penang : Curtis 

 No. 2437. 



The fruit when ripe is reddish-brown, according to Mr. Curtis. 



7. Aglaia, Lour, 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous, lepidote or stellately pubescent. Leaves 

 pinnate or trifoliolate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers polygamo-dioeci- 

 ous, minute or small, numerous, paniculate, sub-globose. Calyx 5-lobed, 

 imbricated in bud. Petals 5, concave, short, imbricated. Staminal tube 

 urceolate or sub-globose, 5-toothed at the apex or entire ; anthers 

 usually 5, or 4 or 10, included or half-exserted, erect. Disli incon- 

 spicuous. Ovary ovoid or shortly so, J-3-celled, with 2-1 ovules in each 

 cell ; style glabrous, short. Berry dry, 1- 2-celled and-seeded. Seeds 

 with a fleshy integument. — Distrib. Species about 70, Chinese, Indo- 

 Malayan or Polynesian. 



The genus Aglaia is distinguished by its small flowers with 5-inerous calyx and 

 corolla, and depressed-globose or globose staminal tube. The calyx-lobes are often 

 imbricate, and the petals are invariably so, three being outside or partly so, and 

 two entirely covered by the outer three. To the genus, as limited by M. C. de 

 CandoUe and Mr. Hiern, only species of which the anthers are either 5 or 6 can 

 be admitted. The efEect of this limitation as to the number of the anthers is to 

 force into Amoora various species which, taking the section Aphanamixis as the type 

 of Amoora, have far less in common with that genus than with the 5-antherou3 

 species of Aglaia. The result, as regards Amoora, is that that genus is loaded with 

 a number of anomalous species collected together in a group under the sectional 

 name Pseudo- Aglaia. By relaxing the definition of Aglaia so as to admit plants of 

 which the flowers have 4, 8 or 10 stamens, and by limiting Amoora to plants with 3- 

 merous corollas, it appears to me that both genera are greatly simplified. Dehis- 

 cence in the fruit cannot be regarded as a diagnostic character of Amoora, there 

 being several Indian species in the fruit of which there is no evidence of dehis- 

 cence ; but indehiscence in the fruit is an absolute character in Aglaia. The effect 

 of the change which I have ventured to carry into effect in the diagnoses of these 

 two genera is, as regards the species described by Mr. Hiern in the Flora of British 



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