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A small tree, branches numerous, with smooth, whitish 

 bark and with sharp, straight, ascending spines \-\\ in. long ; 

 1. pinnate, 3-4 in., rachis and petiole flat, very narrowly 

 winged, glabrous, Iflts. opposite, in 2 or 3 pair and usually 

 a terminal one, nearly sessile, i-\\ in., oval or obovate, obtuse, 

 entire, glabrous, basal ones the largest; fl. small, numerous, 

 in small, paniculate, sessile cymes from the axils of fallen 1., 

 ped. slender, pubescent ; cal. very small ; pet. ovate, acute, 

 spreading, smooth ; stam. 7-12, fil. very short, anth. very 

 large ; disk finely woolly ; ov. with numerous ovules in each 

 cell, style very short, stigma fusiform ; fruit large, 2-2 J in., 

 globose, hard, pericarp woody, rough, whitish, i -celled ; seeds 

 oblong, compressed. 



Throughout the dry region; very common. Fh Feb., March; pale 

 green, stained with red-purple, anthers dark red. 



Found through India, also in Java. 



This is the ' Wood-apple ' of the English, the hard fruit of which is 

 sometimes mistaken for that of the Bael. The specific name refers to its 

 common appellation in India, ' elephant-apple.' 



Pulp of the fruit eatable. Wood hard, heavy, yellowish-white. Affords 

 a good gum. 



jF.gle Marmelos, Corr., the Bael fruit, Belt, S., VtVvam, T., is culti- 

 vated, though not very commonly. It is included in Linnaeus' Flora 

 Zeylanica, n. 212, and there is a drawing but no specimen in Hermann's 

 Herbarium. It is C. P. 1206. Considered native in India. 



XXX.— SIMARUBACE^. 



Trees or shrubs; 1. alternate, pinnate or simple, no stip.; 

 fl. regular, bisexual or polygamous ; sep. 4 or 5, more or less 

 connate, imbricate or valvate; pet. 4 or 5, imbricate or valvate ; 

 stam. 5 (or 10) or 8, distinct ; disk annular or inconspicuous ; 

 ov. 2-5-lobed or of distinct carp., with i or 2 ovules in each, 

 styles distinct or connate ; fruit of i to 5 distinct, indehiscent, 

 I -seeded carp. ; seed with or without scanty endosperm. 



Ovules solitary ; styles connate. 



L. pinnate ; fl. small i. Ailantus. 



L. simple ; fl. large • -• Samadera. 



Ovules 2 in each cell ; styles distinct . . . ' . 3. Suriana. 



Low country plants ; Surtatia on the sea-shore. 



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