202 XXXV. burserace-t:. 



1. Canarium strictum, Roxh. Ilort. Bcng. (1814) j). 49. A large 

 tree ; young brauches and leaves beneath densely rufous-tomentose. 

 Leaves coriaceous, shining and glabrous above, reaching 2 feet (Beddome, 

 rior. Sylvat. 1. c. says 4 feet) in length ; leaflets 3-7 pairs and an odd 

 one, 4-8 by l|-3^ in., ovate-oblong or ovate, to ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, opposite or alternate, finely serrate, with 10-15 pairs of 

 lateral nerves very prominent beneath ; petiolules jV~3 ^"- ^^^S- i'lowers 

 in short-branched axillary panicles shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 

 very short. Calyx usually 3-lobed, cupular, rusty tomentose outside ; 

 tube g in. long ; lobes triangular, ^V i'^- long. Petals ^ in. long by ^ in. 

 broad, oblong-obovate, slightly hairy on the outside towards the rounded 

 apex. Ovary ovoid, attenuated into a style as long as the ovary, 

 glabrous, rudimentary in the male flowers. Drupes l|-2 in. long, 

 ellipsoid or ovoid, tapering at both ends ; stone hard, bony. Fl. B.I. v. 

 1, p. 534 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 52 ; Engler, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 4, p. 118 ; 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 128 ; Taib. Trees, Bomb. p. 37 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 268 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 96.— 

 Flowers : Peb.-Apr. Veen. Baldhup. 



Konkan: Law !, Dcdzell, 1679 ! ; Mira hills near Peu, Dahell ij- Gibson ; Matheran, 

 near the Chauki, H. M. Birdwood. Kasara : Law ! ; Aiushi Ghat (N. Kanara), 

 common,. Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



The tree is known as "the black dammar tree" and yields a brilliant resin. For 

 particulars as to its uses, consult Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



Order XXXVI. MELIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, usually pinnate ; 

 leaves or leaflets usually entire. Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite, 

 in terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx usually small, 4-5-iid or -partite, 

 imbricate, rarely valvate. Petals 4-5 (rarely 3-7), sometimes free and 

 contorted or imbricate, sometimes connate or adnate to the staminal- 

 tube and valvate. Stamens 4-10, generally 8-10 (very rarely more), 

 inserted with the petals outside of the base of a hypogynous disk ; 

 filaments united by their margins into a more or less complete tube 

 which is entire, toothed or variously laciuiate, rarely free ; anthers 

 introrse or versatile, erect, usually sessile on the starainal-tube, included 

 or exserted, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; connective sometimes 

 produced. Disk various, usually annular, or tubular and sheathing, free 

 or adnate to the ovary or staminal-tube, or 0. Ovary usually free, 2-5- 

 celled ; ovules 1-2 (rarely more) in each cell, collateral or superposed ; 

 raphe ventral, micropyle superior; style simple; stigma disciform or 

 capitate. Fruit capsular, baccate or drupaceous. Seeds exalbuminous 

 or with fleshy albumen, winged or not ; embryo flat ; hiliim usually 

 ventral ; cotyledons fleshy. — Distrib. Frequent in the warm regions of 

 Asia and Ameiica, rarer in Africa ; genera 37 ; species about 300. 



Seeds not winged ; filaments united into a tube. 

 Seeds albuminous ; cotyledons I'oliaccous. 



Leaves simple 1. TurrjEa. 



Leaves compound. 



Common petiole winged 2. Nareqamia. 



Common petiole not winged. 



Flowers elongate ; fruit drupaceous 3. Melia. 



Flowers globose; fruit baccate 4. Cipadessa. 



