IVa/sura.] Meliacet^. 249 



3 or less, suspended, completely enveloped in fleshy aril, 

 embryo homogeneous, no endosperm. — Sp. 27 ; 11 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



A. Rohituka,*^ W. and A. Prod. 119 (1834). King-ul, S. 



Thw. Enum. 60. C. P. 558, 2479. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 559. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 132 (.?). 



A moderate - sized tree, with straight trunk, drooping 

 branches and smooth, thin bark, young parts finely silky ; 

 1. large, pinnate, spreading, rachis 1-2J ft, cylindrical, 

 thickened at base, Iflts. 6-Z pair and a terminal one, opposite, 

 stalked, 3-5 in., unequal at base, acuminate, obtuse, glabrous 

 on both sides, terminal one smallest ; fl. sessile, distant, the 

 male numerous, small, on the spicate branches of large, 

 spreading, supra-axillary panicles, the fem. fewer, twice as 

 large, in long, drooping spikes; sep. rotundate, downy, ciliate; 

 pet. rotundate, very thick, concave; ov. 3-lobed, pilose, stigma 

 sessile, large, trigonous; capsule i in., nearly globose or some- 

 what pyriform, smooth, red, valves thick, fleshy, spongy within ; 

 seeds i in., broadly ovoid, apiculate, aril fleshy, yellow, testa 

 smooth, shining, purplish-brown, marked along ventral side 

 with raised fibrous raphe. 



Moist region, up to about 3000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane; Maturata ; 

 near Ekiriyankumbura, Uva (?). Fl. July, August ; yellow. 



Also on Malabar coast, E. Bengal, Malaya, and Andaman and Philip- 

 pine Is. 



The young leaves are purple. Beddome's figure above quoted shows 

 the flowers on longish pedicels, and may be dift'erent. 



Wood hard, close-grained, dark red. 



9. WAIiSURA^t Roxb. 



Trees ; 1, 1-3-foliolate ; fl. bisexual, in paniculate cymes ; 

 cal. 5-lobed or -toothed ; pet. 5, nearly valvate ; stam. lo, 

 fil. distinct nearly to the base ; disk large, annular, tumid ; 

 ov. sunk in the disk, 2-celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each 

 cell, style very short, stigma large, turbinate-capitate ; fruit 

 indehiscent, i-celled, pericarp thin, brittle ; seed usually 

 solitary, more or less completely enveloped in aril, coty- 

 ledons plane-convex, no endosperm. — Sp. about 10 ; 8 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



* The Sanskrit name for the tree. 



t Given by Roxburgh as the Tamil name for W. Piscidia. 



