88 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



with rather broader petals and a shorter style. Fruit sub-globular, 

 7 to 10 in. in diam. Blume Bijdragen, 179; C. DC. Monogr. Phaner, I, 

 719: Don. Gen. Sjst. 1,686; DC. Prod. T, 626: Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 

 t. 136: Seeman Flor. Viti, 38; Hiern in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind., {in 

 part,) I. 567. C. indica, A. Juss. Diet. So. Nat. YII., p. 31. Xylocar- 

 pus granatum, Willd. Spec. Ill, 328 ; A. Juss. Mem. Mel. p. 92, t. 20, 

 No. 22; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 240: Wight and Am. Prod. 121; Blanco 

 Flor. Philipp. ed. 2, p. 207 ; A. Gray U. S. Exped. I, 243. X. grana- 

 tum, Koenig, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 546 : X Fontenii Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. lY, 62. 



South Andaman Island ; Kurz, King's Collectors. Great Coco 

 Island ; Prain. Distrib. Burma, Malayan Archipelago, S. India, Fiji 

 Islands, Africa. 



12. Chickrassia, Adr. Juss. 



A tree with pari-pinnate leaves, alternate sub-opposite or opposite 

 oblique entire leaflets, terminal panicles and 4-5-merous flowers. Calyx 

 short, dentate. Petals oblong, free, imbricate, erect. Staminal tube cylin- 

 dric; its mouth with 10 short blunt teeth. Anthers 10, short, attached to 

 the edge of the mouth and entirely exserted. Disk none. Ovary cylin- 

 dric, on a short stalk, 3-celled ; the ovules numerous, in 2 rows in each 

 cell ; style very short, stout ; stigma capitate. Capsule woody, 3-celled, 

 loculicidal ; the pericarp separating into two layers. Seeds numerous, 

 flat, winged below, exalbuminous. A single species. 



Chickeassia tabularis, a. Juss. in Mem. Mus. XIX, 251, t. 22, f. 27. 

 A tall tree ; yomig branches stout, lenticellate, sub-glabrous. Leaves 

 12 to 18 in. long; leaflets 10 to 16, ovate to oblong, unequal- sided, acute 

 or acuminate ; the base rounded on one side, narrowed on the other : 

 upper surface glabrous, the lower glabrous or more or less velvetty ; length 

 2 to 5 in., bi-eadth 1 to 2'5 in., petiolules "15 to "35 in. Panicles termi- 

 nal, erect, shorter than the leaves ; the branches spreading, pubescent, 

 many-flowered. Flowers "4 to '5 in. long. Calyx with 5 short, shallow, 

 broad teeth, pubescent outside. Petals puberulous outside, pubescent 

 inside. Capsule ovoid, 1-75 in. long; seeds "65 in. long. W. and A. 

 Prod. 123 ; Thwaites Enum. 61 ; Wight 111. t. 66 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 

 9; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PL 32; Kurz For. Flora Burm. I, 227; Hiern in 

 Hook. fil. Fh Br. Ind. I, 568; C. DC. Monogr. Phaner. I, 726. Sioietenia 

 Chickrassia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33 ; Fl. Ind. II, 399. Plageotaxis Chick- 

 rassia, Wall. Cat. 1269. S. Sotrophola, Ham. ex Wall. Cat. p. 214. 

 Chickrassia trilocnluris Roem. Syn. 1, 135 ; Roxb. ex Buch. Journ. I, 184 ; 

 G. Don. Gen. Syst. I, 688. Cedrelae sp. Wall. Cat. 4892. 



Var. vehotina, leaflets, more or less velvetty beneath. C. velutina 



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