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Roemei' Synops. fasc. I, p. 135 ; Km'z For. Flora Burma I, 227 ; C. DC. 

 Mono?r. Pliancr. I, 717. G. Nimmonii Grah. in Wight 111, 148; Dalz. 

 and Gribs. Fl. Bombay, 38. Plageotaxis velntina, Wall. Cat. 1270. 

 Gedrela velntina. DC. Prod. I, 625. ? Gedrela villosa, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 18. ? Melia tomentosa, Kurz Rep. Veg. Andam. ed. i. p. iv., 

 (^not of Roxburgh), ? Toona velutina, Boem. Synops. Monogr., i. 139. 

 ? T. villosa. Boem, 1. c. 140. 



Malacca : Maingay. Andaman Islands : King's Collectors. Distrib. 

 Burma, British India, Ceylon. 



13. Cedrela, Linn. 



Tall trees with coloured wood. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets numerous, 

 opposite or sub-opposite, entire or serrate. PamcZes terminal and sub-ter- 

 minal. Flowers white, pentamerous. Galyx short, 6-cleft. Petals sub- 

 erect, oval, imbricated, free. Stamens 5, free, inserted at the top of the 

 disk, rarely alternating with staminodes, filaments subulate. Anthers 

 oblong, versatile. Disk thick or raised, 5-lobed. Ovary sessile on tlie 

 top of the disk, 5-celled ; cells alternate with the calyx-lobes, each with 

 8-12 bi-seriate pendulous ovules ; style filiform ; stigma discoid. Gapsnle 

 coriaceous, 5-celled, septifragally 5-valved, valves consisting of two 

 plates. Seeds compressed, winged at the apex or at both ends, with 

 fleshy albumen; cotyledons flat, sub-foliaceous. — Distrib. About 16 

 species, inhabiting Tropical Asia, Australia, and America. 



Cedrela febrifuga, Forsten Diss. Cedrel. 16. A tree 80 to 150 feet 

 high ; young branches puberulous, lenticellate. Leaves 15 to 24 in. 

 long, glabrous ; leaflets membranous, 7 to 10 pairs, obliquely ovate- 

 oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base broad and unequal-sided, 

 the edges entire; main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, sub-horizontal, distinct 

 beneath when dry; length 3'5 to 425 in., breadth 1-75 to 2 in., petio- 

 lule "2 in. Panicles terminal, shorter than, or as long as the leaves, 

 spreading, glabrous ; their ultimate bi-anches short, cymose, crowded. 

 Flowers "2 in. in diam., on short pedicels. Segments of the calyx spread- 

 ing, much shorter than the petals, obtase, pubescent at the edges. Petals 

 broad, obtuse, pubescent. Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the petals, 

 tlie filaments and ovary sericeous. Gapsule 1 in. long, lenticellate. 

 Seeds winged at each end, '6 to '7 in. long. Blume Bijdr. I, 180; A. 

 Juss. Mem. Mel. 103; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. V. I, pt. 2, 548; Suppl. 197; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 63 ; De Cand. Monogr. Phaner. I, 744. G. Toona, 

 Hiern (not of Roxb.) Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 569. Toona febrifuga, Roem. 

 Syn. fasc. I, 139. 



Penang : Curtis, No. 826. Pera,k : King's Collector, No. 10403. 



In the Flora of British India, Mr. Hiei-n has reduced this to 



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