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Khandala, Woodrow ; Phnnda Ghd.t, Ritchie, 675 ! Kanaka : common near the Falls 

 of Gairsoppa, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula, Assam and Khasia hills) ; 

 Ceylon, the Andamans. 



2. Dysoxylum malabaricum, Bedd. ex Hiern, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 1 (1875) p. 548. A very large tree ; young shoots slightly puberulous. 

 Leaves up to 18 in. long, abruptly-pinnate; rhachis angular; leaflets 

 alternate or subopposite, 4-5 pairs, 4-9 in. long, pale green, elliptic- 

 oblong, acuminate, entire, puberulous when young ; lateral nerves 12-20 

 pairs, prominent beneath ; petiolules i— |- in. long. Flowers g in. long, 

 in axillary racemiform panicles shorter than the leaves; buds oblong; 

 pedicels ^ in. long. Calyx short, finely pubescent outside, deeply 

 4-lobed ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals 4, linear-oblong, subacute, imbri- 

 cate. Staminal-tube urceolate, with 8 deep emarginate crenatures, 

 contracted about | of the way up ; anthers 8, alternate with the crena- 

 tures, inr-luded. Disk cupular, truncate, subentire or irregularly toothed, 

 not concealing the ovary, pubescent within. Ovary densely pubescent, 

 tapering into the style, 4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; stigma capitate, 

 4-iobed. Fruit 2 in. in diam., pyriform, verrucose, bi'ight yellow when 

 rii)e, 3-4-seeded. Seeds bluntly trigonous ; testa reddish brown ; coty- 

 ledons green. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 548. Dysoxylum glandulosum *, Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 39. — Flowers : Feb. 



Kanaka : evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot, 228 ! — Distrib. India (W. 

 Peninsula). 



7. AGLAIA, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous, lepidote, or stellately-pubescent. .Leaves 

 alternate, pinnate ; leaflets opposite, often oblique at the base, quite 

 entire. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, minute, in axillary branching 

 panicles. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-partite, imbricate. Petals 5, free, or 

 more or less connate at the base, imbricate. Staminal-tube urceolate 

 or subglobose, 5-toothed or quite entire at the apex ; anthers usually 5, 

 or 4 or 10, included or half exserted, erect. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 

 1-2- (rarely 3-) celled, short : ovules 1-2 in each cell ; style thick, very 

 short or ; stigma scarcely broader than the style, 1-3-toothed. Berry 

 1- or few-«!eeded ; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds with a fleshy integument.— 

 DiSTBiB. Tropical and subtropical Asi^i and Polynesia; rare in temperate 

 climates ; species more than 50. 



1. Aglaia odoratissima, Blume, Bijdr. (1825) p. 171. A tree 

 reaching 40 ft. high ; young branches, petiolules and inflorescence 

 covered with minute brown deciduous scales. Leaves 3-7 in. long, 

 imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, usually 5 (rarely 3 or 7), thinly coria- 

 ceous, 2-4-i- by 1-2 in., elliptic-oblong or obovate, usually shortly 

 acuminate, upper surface glabrous, the lower and especially the nerves 

 more or less lepidote, base cuneate ; petiolules ^-|- in. long (those of the 

 terminal leaflets the longest). Flowers globular, in axillary or supra- 

 axillary pyramidally-branched elongate lepidote panicles 3-8 in. long. 

 Calyx appressedly lepidote-pubescent outside ; lobes 5, short, rounded, 

 ciliolate. Petals yellow, ^ in. long, much longer than the calyx, unequal, 



* The glands in the axils of the lateral nerves noted by Mr. Talbot {I. c.) appear to 

 be the work of insects. 



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