Dyso.x'ylum?[ MeliaCBCS. 247 



Aglaia odorata, Lour., of Malaya and China, is occasionally cultivated. 

 Macrae's Ceylon specimens quoted by Cas. DC. (Mon. Phanerog. i. 602) 

 ■were no doubt from the Botanic Gardens. 



6. DYSOXYLUM,* ^/. 



Trees ; 1. imparipinnate ; fl. in supra-axillary panicles ; 

 cal. truncate, obscurely 4-lobed ; pet. 4, valvate ; stam.-tube 

 8-lobed at mouth, anth. 8, included ; disk conspicuous, tubular- 

 cup shaped, as long as ov, ; ov, 4-celled ; fruit a large, coria- 

 ceous, sub-dehiscent capsule, 4- (or 5-) celled, with i seed in 

 each cell ; no endosperm, cotyledons plane-convex. — Sp. 85 ; 

 14. in Fl. B. I lid. 



D. binectariferum, Hk.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 212 (1866). 

 Cas. DC. 1. c. 493. D. 7nacrocarpum, Thw. Enum. 60 (non Bl.). 

 C. P. 2637. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 546. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 150 (from Ceylon specimens). 



A large tree, with straight trunk, young parts puberulous ; 

 1. pinnate, rachis 6-9 in., angular, very finely puberulous, 

 Iflts. 5-9, alternate, 5-7 in., shortly stalked, oval, acute and 

 often unequal at base, acuminate, entire, glabrous, thick, not 

 shining ; fl. under | in., few, on short, pubescent, articulated 

 ped., in narrow, erect, supra-axillary panicles 3-5 in.; cal. 

 cup-shaped, truncate, obscurely lobed ; pet. triangular, acute, 

 spreading or reflexed, puberulous outside ; stam.-tube wide, 

 somewhat 4-angled, crenulate, anth. sessile, within the tube ; 

 disk closely surrounding ovary ; style equalling stam.-tube ; 

 capsule 2-2| in., depressed-globular, deeply 4- (or 5-) grooved, 

 smooth, orange -coloured, pericarp thick, coriaceous-fleshy, 

 indehiscent or tardily loculicidal ; seeds solitary in each cell, 

 large, nearly i in., chestnut-coloured, shining. 



Var. /3. pyriforme, 7>/;;z. C. P. 3596. 



Lflts. much smaller, 3-4 in., oblong, thinner, much reticu- 

 late, with prominent veins ; fr. much smaller, i-i\ in., pyriform. 



Low country, principally in the moist region up to 3000 ft.; rather 

 common. Var. ft. in the dry country at Batticaloa. Fl. Jan.-March ; 

 green. 



Also in Southern India and Assam. 



C. de CandoUe in his monograph of the Order (Mon. Phan. i. 493) 

 has a var. punctulatiim from Ceylon, with the leaves thickly pellucid- 



* From the disagreeable scent of the wood and bark of Z>. alliaceuin of 

 Java, the first species described. Our species does not possess it. 



