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wards, Iflts. 6-8 pair, opposite or often alternate above, sessile, 

 linear-oblong, acute and unequal at base, emarginate, entire, 

 undulate, glabrous and shining, dotted, lat. veins numerous, 

 parallel ; fl. small, numerous, on short ped., in erect, narrow, 

 glabrous, axillary panicles 6-8 in. long ; cal. glabrous, per- 

 sistent, segm. acute ; pet. in the male fl. longer thai cal., 

 concave, in the fem. fl. very small ; disk very hairy ; stam. in 

 the male fl. long, exserted, in the fem. fl. very small, barren ; 

 ov. globose, glabrous, style short, curved ; drupe ovoid, i-f in., 

 apiculate, smooth and shining, purple; seed pendulous. 



Forests in the low country ; common. Fl. Jan.; pinkish-white. 



Also in Malabar; where the Tamil name is given as ' Athalangi.' 



Much planted as an ornamental tree. Hermann gives as the 

 Sinhalese names ' Jurighas ' and ' Maniglia.' Burmann figures the leaf 

 as a fern ; and its outline does a good deal resemble the frond of some 

 Pteris, such as P. uuibrosa. Linnaeus corrected this error, but did not 

 attempt to name the plant. 



Wood close-grained, heavy, rather hard, pale red. Some fine trees 

 in the Pattipal-ar Forests in Wellasse measured lo ft. in girth at the 

 level of my chest. 



XXXIII.— MELIACE.^. 



Trees, rarely shrubs ; 1. alternate, compound (unifoliolate in 

 Wals2ira Gardneri), without stip. ; fl. regular, bisexual or 

 polygamo-dioecious ; cal. 4-5-fid (sep. distinct in Anioora)\ 

 pet. 4 or 5, rarely 3, distinct or rarely connate, imbricate or 

 valvate ; stam, 5, 6, 8 or 10, fil. more or less completely 

 connate into a tube (distinct in CJdoroxylon and nearly so in 

 Wals2Lrd), free or rarely adnate to cor., inserted outside disk ; 

 disk conspicuous or inconspicuous, rarely o ; ov. 2-5-celled, 

 with 2 or rarely numerous ovules in each cell, style simple ; 

 fruit a capsule, rarely a drupe or indehiscent, 1-5-celled, with 

 i-numerous seeds ; seed with or without an aril, with or more 

 usually without endosperm. 



Seeds not winged. 



Ovules 1-2 in each cell. 

 Fil. connate into a tube. 

 Pet. connate, and adnate to stam.-tube . i. Munronia. 



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