204 XXXVI. MELIACE,!. 



Tlie only specimen in Herb. Kew., marked T. vircns in Palzoll's haiidwritina;, is 

 without flowers, but the leaves and capsules are unmistakably those of T. vil/osa. 

 Graham (Cat. I3omb. I'lts. I.e.) gives as tiie habitat of T. virois, Khandala and the 

 bottom of Parghat, where it is, he states, abundant, flowering in A])ril and May. I 

 have myself collected specimens on the hills not far from Parghat in the month 

 of May in full flower, but these were all Turr<ea viUosa, and were, as Graham describes, 

 destitute of leaves when the flowers ajipeared. There can be little doubt that both 

 Graham and Dalzell have mistaken T. villosa for 7\ vircns. Neither author mentions 

 T. vi/losct at all, while T. virens has not, as far as I am aware, been found by any 

 botanical collector. It seems more than doubtful therefore if T. v/re7is really occurs 

 in the Bombay Presidency. 



There are but 2 authentic specimens of the species in existence, one in the Linnean 

 Herbarium in the Linnean Society, and the other in the British Museum, both of 

 which I have seen. Ka?nig the collector states that they were foimd on heaps of 

 scoriae from extinct volcanoes in the East Indies, but gives uo precise locality. 



2. Turraea villosa, Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. (1840) p. 182. A large 

 shrub. Leaves membranous, appearing after the flowers, 2-4 by 1^-2^ 

 (when mature), elliptic or ovate, acuminate, entire, softly villous when 

 young, becoming more or less glabrous when old, base acute or rounded ; 

 petioles -j-g in. long, pubescent. Flowers axillary, l|-2 in. long, 

 solitary or in fascicles of 2-G, or in short-peduucled umbels ; buds 

 clavate. Calyx campanulate, pubescent outside, 5-toothed ; teeth trian- 

 gular. Petals yellow, linear-spathulate. Staminal-tube reaching 1 in. 

 in length, glabrous ; teeth very short ; anthers longer than the teeth of 

 the staminal-tube. Ovary 5-celled ; style long, fai'-exserted ; stigma 

 large, ovoid. Capsule subglobose, about l in. in diam., glabrous. Fl.B. 

 I. v. 1, p. 542; Wight, Icon. t. 1593; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 38; 

 "VVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. iS'at. v. 11 (1897) p. 268. — Flowers: Apr.- 

 June. 



Konkan: Law I; Ghats in S. Konkan, Capf. Gehnmel; near Pen, Woodrow. 

 Deccan: Mahableshwar hills, Balph, 213!; Koina Valley, below Mahableshwar, 

 Cooke ! Kanaka : moist forests of the Supa subdivision of N. Kanara, 'Talbot.— 

 DiSTKiB. ludia (Anamallay hills) ; Java. 



2. NAREGAMIA, W. & A. 



A glabrous branching undershrub. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary. Calyx 5-fid, deciduous, imbricate. Petals 5, elongate- 

 spathulate, free, contorted. Staminal-tube elongate, cylindric, inflated 

 at the apex ; anthers 10, appendaged at the apex. Disk annular. Ovary 

 ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, pendulous ; style fili- 

 form ; stigma capitate. Capsule ovoid -globose, 8-lobed, 3-celled, 

 loculicidally 3-valved ; valves separating from the 3-winged axis, cells 

 2-seeded. Seeds pendulous, curved, truncate at both ends, with a short 

 double membrane along the side next the axis ; albumen fleshy ; co- 

 tyledons foliaceous. — Disteib. India ; Angola (W. Tropical Africa). 



1. Naregamia alata, Wight 4- Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 117. Suffru- 

 ticose, about 1 ft. high. Leaves 3-foliolate, 1-3 in. long (including the 

 winged petiole) ; petiole g-1 1 in. long ; leaflets |-2 in. long, sessile (the 

 terminal slightly the largest), cuneate-obovate, sometimes obtusely lobed, 

 entire, glabrous. Flowers 1-1^ in. long, longer than the pedicels, white, 

 axillary, solitary. Calyx hairy outside ; lobes oblong-hinceolate. Petals 

 linear-spathulate. Capsule somewiiat membranous, 3-lobed, 3-valved, 

 valves orbicular. Seeds muriculate, chestnut- brown, terete, curved. 



