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Seeds esalbuuiinous ; cotyledons thick. 



Flowers and staminal-tube oblong ; style long. 



Disk ; petals 5 5. Azadikachta. 



Disk large, usually sheathing the ovary ; 



petals 4 6. Dysoxylum. 



Flowers and staminal-tube globose or turbinate ; 

 style short or obsolete. 



Anthers included in the staminal-tube or 

 the tips only exserted. 

 Fruit baccate. 



Anthers 5; seeds exarillate 7. Aglaia. 



Anthers 10, in 2 series ; seeds aril- 

 late 8. Lansium. 



Fruit c^ipsular. 



Seeds arillate 9. Amoora. 



Seeds exarillate 10. Carafa. 



Anthers wholly exserted from the staminal- 

 tube. 



Fruit baccate, indehiscent 11. Walsura. 



Fruit capsular, loculicidal 12. Heykea. 



Seeds winged. 



Filaments united into a tube. 



Staininal-tube cup-shaped ; disk conspicuous 13. Sotmida. 



Staminal-tube cylindric ; disk 14. Ciiukrassia. 



Filaments distinct. 



Stamens 4-6 15. Oedrela. 



Stamens 10 16. Ciiloroxylon. 



1. TURR-ffiA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, entire or obtusely lobed. 

 Flowers in axillary clusters or short racemes, bracteate. Calyx 5-4- 

 toothed or -partite. Petals 5-4, elongate, free, contorted. Staminal- 

 tube cylindric, toothed at the apex ; anthers 10 or 8, short, included 

 or exserted, inserted just within the mouth, alternating with the teeth. 

 Disk annular or obsolete. Ovary 5 (or more) -celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell, superposed ; style filiform, thickened at the apex ; stigma discoid or 

 capitate. Capsule 4 (or more) -celled, cells 1-2-seeded, 5- or many- 

 valved ; valves woody or coriaceous, separating from the winged axis. 

 Seeds oblong, with a broad ventral hilum, the margins sometimes winged ; 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo curved ; cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle terete. — 

 DiSTRiB. Tropical Asia and Tropical and South Africa ; species about 23. 



Teeth of staminal-tube subulate ; antliers shorter than the teeth ; 



style just exserted 1. T. virens. 



Teeth of staminal-tube short ; anthers longer than the teeth ; style 



far-exserted 2. T. villosa. 



1. Turrsea virens, Linn. Mantiss. alt. (1771) p. 237. A shrub 

 3-4 ft. high. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, sub- 

 acuminate, emarginate, quite entire, glabrous, paler beneath ; petioles 

 very short. Flowers in axillary or lateral clusters, yellow ; bracts small, 

 linear, villous. Calyx small, shortly 5-fid, persistent, sericeo-villous. 

 Petals lanceolate or spathulate. Staminal-tube about 1 in. long, with 

 10 lanceolate teeth ; anthers alternate with the teeth and shorter than 

 them ; style just exserted. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule \ in. long, hairy. 

 Fl. B. L V. 1, p. 541. 



Dalzell & Gibson (Bomb. Fl. p. 36) state that the plant is " common on the Ghats." 



