Meliosfiia.'] SabiacecB, 315 



Scarcely differs from M. ptmgens, Wall, of the Himalaya, to which 

 Wight referred it. 



2. m. simplicifolia, Walp. Rep. i. 423 (1842). Elbedda, 5. 

 Thw. Enum. 59. C. P. 703. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 5. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 254 {Millingtonia). 



A moderate-sized tree, bark white, smooth, marked with 

 large leaf-scars on the younger branches, young parts rufous- 

 pubescent ; 1. 5-12 in., simple, obovate- or oblong-lanceolate, 

 much tapering at base, obtuse or shortly acuminate and acute, 

 entire, thin, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath on the 

 veins and with tufts of hair in their axils, lat. veins parallel, 

 prominent beneath, petiole \-\ in., much swollen at base, 

 nearly glabrous ; fl. very small, nearly sessile, laxly arranged 

 in large, spreading, pubescent, pyramidal, axillary and ter- 

 minal panicles ; bractlets and sep. about 5 or 6, outer ones 

 setaceous, hairy, inner ones broad, acute ; large pet. rotund- 

 oval, obtuse, small ones bifid with filiform segm. ; drupe \ in., 

 nearly globular, shining, purple. 



Upper zone of moist low country; very common. Fl. Jan.; yellowish- 

 white. 



Also in S. India, E. Bengal, and Burma. 



Wood pale reddish, moderately hard, rather light, splits readily. 



3. nx. Arnottiana, Waip. Rep. i. 423 (1842). 



Millingtonia Arnottiana, Wight, 111. i. 144. Thw. Enum. 59. C. P. 293. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 6. Wight, 111. t. 53. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 160. 



A moderate-sized tree, young parts with rusty, deciduous 

 hair ; 1. imparipinnate, rachis 4-7 in., pubescent or tomentose, 

 Iflts. 9-15, opp. or nearly so, on short tomentose stalks, 

 2-3^ in., lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often somewhat falcate, 

 acute or rounded at base, usually caudate-acuminate, acute, 

 entire, glabrous except on midrib above, more or less rusty- 

 tomentose beneath ; fl. small, very nearly sessile, crowded on 

 the branches of copious, pyramidal, rufous-tomentose, axillary 

 and terminal panicles ; bractlets and sep. about 5, orbicular, 

 very obtuse, ciliate ; large pet. orbicular, small ones minute, 

 deeply bifid ; drupe about \ in., ovoid-globular, usually with 

 the remains of the persistent style near the base. 



Montane zone, above 4000 ft.; common. Fl. April ; yellowish-white. 



Also in the mountains of S. India. 



A great ornament to the montane forests when covered with its sheets 

 of cream-coloured blossoms. The tree is bare of leaves for a short time 

 in Januaiy. 



The wood is called ' Nika-dawulu ' at N. Eliya ; it is light, spongy, 

 and of no value. 



