252 MeliacC(E. \Chloroxylo7U 



long, stout ; fruit a woody capsule, scpticidally dehiscent by 

 4 (3-5) valves ; seeds very numerous, with a large wing, no 

 endosperm. — Monotypic. 



C. tabularis, A. Jiiss. in Mem. Mus. xix. 251 (1830). Kulanhik^ 

 S. Ag-lai, Kaloti, T. 



C. vchctina, Roem., Cas. DC. I. c. 727. Thw. Enum. 61. C. P. 2454. 

 Y\. B. Ind. i. 568. Wight, 111. t. 56. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 9. 



A very large tree, with a tall, straight trunk, bark brown, 

 deeply vertically cracked, young parts pubescent ; 1. pinnate, 

 rachis 8-10 in., cylindrical, softly tomentose, Iflts. 10-16, 

 usually 12, stalked, alternate, 2^-5 in., ovate, very unequal 

 at base, acuminate, acute, entire, closely velvety-tomentose 

 on both sides, dark green above, paler beneath ; fl. f-i in., 

 pedicellate, in large, terminal, pyramidal panicles ; cal-lobes 

 shallow, rounded, hairy ; pet. linear-oblong, spreading; stam.- 

 tube \ in., style as long as stam.-tube; capsule i| in., broadly 

 ovoid, apiculate, smooth, brown, valves woody, separating 

 entirely from the 4-winged axis ; seeds closely packed, com- 

 pressed, with a broad, obtuse, terminal wing twice as long as 

 themselves. 



Low country ; rather rare (?). Deltota ; Hanguranketa ; Kandy. 

 Fl. May; pale green. 



Also at Bombay and on the Malabar coast, and at Malacca. 



Our plant is the variety with the leaves silky-tomentose, which is 

 C. veli(ti?ia, Roeni., and is maintained as distinct from C. tabu/afis by 

 Cas. DC. in his monograph (1. c. p. 727;. I have only seen 4-merous fl., 

 but in Fl. B. Ind. the anth. are given as 10 and the ov. and capsule 

 3-celled, and in Wight and Beddome's figure the ov. is 5-celled. 



Wood hard, rather heavy, even, shining, brownish red, with rather 

 large pores, durable. Much valued, and goes by the name of ' Chitta- 

 gong wood ' and ' White cedar ' at Madras. The finely carved pillars in 

 the audience-hall (now District Court) at Kandy are made of it. 



Cedrela Toona, Roxb., a tree common throughout India, Burma, &c., 

 is curiously absent from Ceylon. It has, however, been introduced and 

 planted on tea estates. There are figures in Wight, Ic. t. 161 and Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 10. C. serrata, Royle, native of the Himalaya, has also been 

 a good deal planted on estates in the hills, where it is called the ' Red 

 Toon.' These distinct species are combined in Fl. B. Ind. 



12. CHI.OIlOXVX.ON, DC. 



Tree ; 1. imparipinnate ; fl. in terminal panicles ; cal. 

 deeply 5-lobed ; pet. 5, clawed, imbricate ; stam. 10, quite 

 distinct ; disk large, tumid, lo-lobed ; ov. 3-celled, with many 

 ovules in each cell, style short ; fruit a coriaceous, 3-celled 



