20S XXXTI. MELIACE.i:. 



Cultivated throughout the Presidency and self-planted, but nowhere really wild ; 

 common about villages. Konkan : tifoc/i-a ! Deccan : Poona, Coukr ! ; Hubli, Huhea- 

 hackcr, 7(i5 I — Distrib. Cultivated throughout India and in many hot climates. 



The well-known Xim or Margosa tree. Its valuable properties attracted the notice 

 of the Mohannuedans on their arrival in India and it was named by them A-ad- 

 darachf-i-hindi from its resemblance to the Persian lilac (Melia Azedarach). For a full 

 description of the valuable products of the tree, consult Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. I.e. 



6. DYSOXYLUM, Blume. 



Glabrous often foetid trees. Leaves large, alternate (rarely opposite), 

 inipari- or abruptlj'-piunate ; leaflets usually quite entire, oblique at 

 the base. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary or supra-axillary lax 

 panicles. Calyx short, 4-5-fid or -partite, imbricate, caducous. Petals 

 4-5, vahate or slightly imbricate, free or connate below with the 

 staminal-tube (never with the ovary). Stamens united into a tube 

 which is a little shorter than the petals and usually laciniate or crenate ; 

 anthers 8-10, inserted beneath the apex of the stamiual-tube, glabrous, 

 included or half exserted. Disk tubular, crenulate or entire at the 

 mouth, glabrous or ciliate, usually sheathing and exceeding the ovary. 

 Ovary free, 3-5-celled, attenuated into a style much longer than the 

 ovary ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, superposed or collateral ; stigma discoid. 

 Capsule thickly coriaceous, globose or pyriform, 1-5-celled, loculicidally 

 2-5-valved ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds exarillate (rarely arillate); coty- 

 ledons thick, plumule often hirsute ; albumen 0. — Disxrid. Malaya, 

 Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia ; species 85. 



Leaves imparipinnate ; calyx nearly half as long as the 



flower, lobes obscure 1. B. hinecfarifcnim. 



Leaves abruptly-pinnate; calyx short, lobes acute 2. D. malaharieuvi. 



1. Dysoxylum binectariferum, Hool'.f. ex Bedd. in Trans. Linn. 

 /S'oc. v. 25 (18()6) p. 212. A tree .30 ft. high or more; young parts 

 finely puberulous. Leaves imparipinnate, pale, 6-10 in. long; rbachis 

 angular; leaflets 5-9, alternate, 4-7 by l|-3 in., oblong-elliptic, acu- 

 minate, glabrous on both surfaces, entire or obscurely and distantly 

 toothed, base acute often inequilateral; nerves about 14 pairs, prominent 

 beneath ; petiolules ^-^ in. long. Flowers | in. long, in axillary or 

 supra-axillary subglabrous panicles which are shorter than the leaves ; 

 pedicels short, articulated. Calyx cupular, nearly half as long as the 

 flower, coriaceous, truncate, entire or obscurely lobed, glabrous. Petals 

 4, greenish-yellow, valvate except at the apex, ton)eutose outside. 

 Staminal-tube cylindric, toothed, glabrous ; anthers 8, included. Disk 

 surrounding and twice as long as the ovary, irregularly 8-toothed, the 

 teeth again dentate. Ovary ribbed, villous, attenuated into the style, 

 4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell : stigma hemispheric, truncate. Capsules 

 2-2^ in. long, obovoid or subglobose, grooved, glabrous, orange-colored 

 when ripe, 4-celled, 4-seeded. Seeds large, nearly 1 in. long, purplish- 

 brown, shining. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 540; DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 493; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 247 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 39 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 209; Walt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 199. 

 Epirharis exarilhda, Arn. ex AV. & A. Prodr. p. 120 {not of Ninuno") ; 

 Dalz. & Ciibs. p. 37. Guarca hinectonfcra, Koxb. Hort. Beng. p. 28; 

 Ci rah. Cat. p. 31. — Flowers: Aug.-Sejjt. A'ekn. Yerindi. 

 Konkan: near Vingorla, Bahell ^ Gibson. Deccan: Lanoli Grove, Graham; 



