248 Meliacece. [Amoora. 



punctate ; he quotes for this C. P. 2639, which, however, must be an 

 error, as that number is a Hcdyotis. He calls the ordinary Ceylon plant 

 var. coriaccuni. 



Wood hard, moderately heavy, close-grained, reddish. 



7. PSEVDOCARAPA,* Hemsl. 

 Tree ; 1. abruptly pinnate ; fl. in racemose panicles ; cal. 

 obscurely 4-lobed ; pet. 4, nearly valvate ; stam.-tube shallowly 

 crenate at mouth, anth. 8, included ; no disk ; ov. 4-celled, 

 with 2 collateral ovules in each cell ; style as long as stam.- 

 tube, stigma small, capitate ; fruit a 4-celled capsule, tardily 

 dehiscent, with 4 valves ; seeds i or 2 in each cell, half 

 surrounded by a fleshy aril ; no endosperm. — Monotypic. 



P. Championi, Hemsl. in Ic. Plant., ser. 3, v. 46 (1884). Gona- 

 pana, S. [Plate XXIV.] 



Dysoxylum Chainpiojiu, Hk. f. and Th., Thw. Enum. 61. Anioora{?), 

 B. and Hk. f., Enum. 409; Cas. DC. 1. c. 591. C. P. 1193, 2504. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 562 {Amoora?). Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1458. 



A very large tree, bark roughish, grey, young parts slightly 

 puberulous ; 1. pinnate, rachis 2-4 in., cylindrical, glabrous, 

 Iflts. 2-3 pair, opposite, on short stalks, obovate - oblong, 

 2i-4| in., tapering at base, very obtuse, entire, glabrous ; fl. 

 rather large, fin., in small, supra-axillary, racemose panicles; 

 cal. shallowly cup-shaped ; pet. oval-oblong, acute; stam.-tube 

 somewhat inflated, with 8 bilobed crenulations at mouth, 

 anth. small, included ; capsule f-i in., globose-pyriform, apicu- 

 late, smooth ; seeds ^ in., ovoid, half covered by the reddish 

 aril, testa smooth, brown. 



Moist region from 1000-4000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane ; Deltota; 

 Hunasgiriya; Dikoya ; W. Prov. Fl. Jan. ; yellow. 



Endemic. 



Hemsley (1. c.) describes and figures 9 anthers. I hav-e never found 

 more than 8, as Thwaites describes them. 



Wood very hard and heavy, close-grained, reddish. 



8. AIIXOORA,t Ro.vb. 

 Trees ; 1. imparipinnate ; fl, polygamous, in lax spikes ; 

 sep, 5. imbricate; pet. 3, strongly imbricate; stam.-tube 

 globular, nearly entire at mouth, anth. 6, nearly included ; 

 ov. 3-celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell ; fruit a 

 3-celled capsule, loculicidally dehiscent, with 3 valves ; seeds 



* Froni the remarkable similarity of the foliage to Carapa molucccnsis. 

 t From the Bengalese name of ^. ctuitllata. 



