Chickrassia:\ McHaceCB. 2 5 1 



10. CARAFA, Audi. 



Trees; 1. abruptly pinnate; fl. in small panicles; cal. 4-fid; 

 pet. 4 ; stam.-tube depressed-globose, with 8 bi-dentate lobes 

 at the mouth, anth. 8, just included; disk large; ov. immersed 

 in disk, 4-celled, with several ovules in each cell, style short, 

 stigma capitate; fruit a very large i -celled, 4-valved capsule; 

 seeds 6-12, very large, no endosperm. — Sp. 6; i in F/. B. Ind. 



C. moluccensis, Lam. Encyd. Mcth. i. 621 (1763). 

 Xylocarpus Granafiein, Koen., Thw. Knum. 61. C. P. 2650. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 567. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 136. 



A moderate-sized tree, perfectly glabrous throughout ; 

 1. pinnate, rachis cylindrical, brown, Iflts. i or 2 pair, nearly 

 sessile, opposite, articulated, 2^-4 in., obovate-oblong, entire, 

 shining, pale green ; fl. | in., few, in small, apparently ter- 

 minal panicles ; cal.-teeth broadly triangular ; pet. spreading 

 or reflexed ; disk large, turbinate, glabrous ; fr. 3^-6 in., 

 globose, 4-grooved, smooth, brown, valves woody, \ in. thick ; 

 seeds variously angular from mutual pressure, pink, testa very 

 thick, dry-spongy. 



Mangrove swamps on the west coast ; rather rare. Chilaw ; 

 Negombo; Colombo. Fl. September, December; pinkish-yellow. 



On the Tropical shores of Asia, Africa, and N. Australia. 



This is called the ' Cannon-ball ' tree from its great spherical hard 

 fruits. I have the Sinhalese name ' Mudu-nelun ' for it from Mr. Nevill, 

 but it is generally reckoned with the Mangroves and called, like them, 

 • Kadol.' 



[Soymida febrifiiga^ A. Juss., is given in Fl. B. Ind. i. 567, for Ceylon 

 on the faith of a specimen in Herb. Kew from Jaffna collected by Dyke. 

 This was doubtless cultivated there (as were many other foreign 

 trees) by Mr. Dyke. This tree is also included in Moon's Catalogue, 

 p. 34, the locality given being ' Safifragam' and the native name 'Kokun.' 

 Moon may have confounded Kokoona zeylanica with Soy?nida, and there 

 is a specimen of the former from him collected in ' Saffragam 1820' in 

 Herb. Perad. But there are also specimens, in leaf only, from Moon, col- 

 lected at Kalutara in 182 1, which may be truly Soyinida. If so, they were 

 probably cultivated in the old Botanic Gardens there.] 



II. CKZCK.RASSXA,^^./^m. 



Large trees; 1. imparipinnate ; fl. in terminal panicles; 

 cal. 4- (or 5-) lobed ; pet. 4 (or 5), slightly contorted ; stam.- 

 tube cylindrical, almost entire at mouth, anth. 8 (or 10), 

 terminal ; ov. 4- (3-5-) celled, ovules very numerous, style 



* From Chickrassi, the Bengali name. Jussieu spells it Chukrasia. 



