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11. Carapa, Aubl. 



Glabrous littoral trees. Leaves 2- or 4- or sometimes 6-foliolate 

 leaflets opposite, quite entire, the nerves faint. Panicles lax, axillary 

 cymose, flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-ficl, short. Petals 4, reflexed 

 8taminal tube urceolate-globose, 8-dentate, the teeth bi-partite : anthers 8 

 2-celled, included, alternating with the teeth. Dish fleshy, cup 

 shaped, adherent to the base of the ovary. Ovary 4-ce]led, 4-sulcate 

 the cells 2-8-ovuled ; style short, stigma discoid. Fruit capsular, sub-glo- 

 bose, large, 4-celled, 6-12-seeded; pericarp fleshy, dehiscing by 4 valves. 

 Seeds large, thick, angular ; testa hard, spongy, aril 0, hilum large, 

 ventral ; cotyledons amygdaloid. — Distrib. About 6 species, all tropi- 

 cal and usually littoral. 



Leaves with broad blunt apex and narrow 



base, coriaceous ; panicles stout ; fruit as 



large as an orange ... . . . 1. C. obovata. 



Leaves with sub-acute apex and broad base, 



very thinly coriaceous ; panicles slender : 



fruit 7 to 10 in. in diara. ... ... 2. G. moluccensis. 



1. Carapa obovata, Blume Bijdr. 179. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long; 

 leaflets 1 to 2 pairs, coriaceous, obovate to oblong, the apex broad, ob- 

 tuse, rarely notched or sub-acute, the base narrowed ; main nerves 6 to 9 

 pairs, length 3 to 4 in., breadth 1'35 to 1-76 in., petiolules '2 to "35 in. 

 Panicles 1*5 to 2-5 in. long, stout, cymose, few-flowered. Flowers "25 in. 

 long, their pedicels '3 to -5 in. long, bracteolate. Calyx-teeth broad, 

 rounded. Petals much longer than the calyx, broadly elliptic, the edges 

 imbricate. Ovary broadly ovoid. Fruit the size of an oi-ange, apiculate 

 when young, but not when ripe. C. DC. Monogr. Phaner. I, 718 : 

 Seemann Flora Yitiensis p. 88. C. moluccensis, Kurz (not of Lamk. 

 For. Flor. Br. Burma, I, 226 : C. moluccensis, (in part,) Hiern in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I. 667. Xylocarptis obovatus, A Juss. Mem. Mel. p. 92 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 546. 



Malacca: Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 347; Griffith, No. 1098. 

 Perak; Scortechini, King's Collector. South Andaman; Kurz, Kin o-'s 

 Collectors. Little Andaman : Prain. Distrib. Sunderbuns of Ben^-al : 

 (Heinig) and others ; Java and other islands of the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago. Tropical Africa. 



2. Carapa moluccensis, Lamk. Encyc. Meth I, G21. Leaves 4 

 to 10 in. long ; leaflets usually 2 pairs, thinly coriaceous, almost mem- 

 branous, broadly ovate to ovate- oblong, sub-acute, the base broad, un- 

 equal ; main nerves about 6 pairs, spreading ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 

 1-5 to 235 in., petiolules '15 to -25 in. Panicles 3 to 5 in. long, slender, 

 with lax spreading few-flowered branches. Flowers as in the last, but 



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