210 XXXYI. MELIA.CB.5. 



broadly elliptic- oblong, rounded at the apex, glabrous. Staminal-tube 

 urceolate-globose, shorter than the petals, truncate, the mouth open, 

 obscurely 5-lobed; anthers 5, concealed in the tube, inserted below its 

 mouth. Ovary small, stellately lepidote ; style half as long as the 

 staniinal-tube ; stigma small, broadly ovoid. Berry -i-Hr in- long, pyri- 

 form or subglobose, velvety-touieutose, buff-colored, usually 1 -seeded. 

 Seeds ellipsoid. King, in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. v. CA (1895) p. G7 ; 

 Harms, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 4, p. 299, tig. 163, G. 

 AqJaia RoxburqMana, Hieru, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 555 (not of 

 Miquel) ; DC.Monogr. Phan. y. 1, p. G04 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 246 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 40; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 145.— 

 Flowers : Xov.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! S. M. Country : Eamghat, Bitrhie, ICibS ! Kanaka : 

 Kumpta, Talhot, 2955 ! ; Falls of Gairsoppa, Talbot, 2673 ! ; Karwar (near the coast), 

 Talbut, 499 ! ; evergreen forests of N. Kanara, from Ainslii southwards, Talhot. — 

 DisTKiB. India (W. Peninsula and Birma) ; Singapore, Cejion, Java, Sumatra. 



8. LANSIUM, Eumph. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate. Inflorescence axillary ; 

 flowers small, dioecious, the male usually in lax branching panicles, the 

 female spicate or racemose. Sepals 5, rounded, imbricate. Petals 5, 

 rounded, connivent, imbricate. Stamiual-tube globose, mouth crenulate; 

 anthers 10, subacute, usually in 2 rows, the shorter one included, the 

 longer semi-exserted. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary globose, 3-5-celled ; 

 ovules 1-2 in each cell, attached to the axis ; style very short, thick ; 

 stigma truncate, 3-5-lobed. Berry 3-5-celled, corky or fleshy. Seeds 

 solitary or twin, collateral, oblong, exalbuminous, embedded in a pulpy 

 aril ; hilum ventral ; cotyledons transverse ; radicle superior. — Distkib. 

 India, Malaya ; species 4-6. 



1 . Lansium anamallayanum, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 25 (1866) 

 p. 212. A moderate-sized tree. Leaves imparipinnate, 6-9 in. long; 

 leaflets 3-5, alternate, 3-6 by l|-2j in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, base acute, subequilateral ; petiolules ^-g in. 

 long. Flowers in panicles, spikes or racemes shorter than the leaves, 

 2-3-fasciculate, the hermaphrodite flowers sessile ; buds globose. Calyx 

 rugose outside ; lobes orbicular, ciliate. Petals i in. long, elliptie- 

 obovate, veined. Staminal-tube irregularly crenate, striate inside; 

 anthers 2-seriate, the upper row slightly exserted. Ovary densely 

 hairy, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; ovules usually 2 (sometimes 1 Beddome) in each 

 cell ; style very short ; stigma large, 3-lobed. Fruit oblong, size of a 

 grape, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 558 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 

 1. 131 ; DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 597 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 40 ; AVoodr. 

 in Journ. liomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 269.— Flowers : Apr.-May. 

 Vehn. Telya. 



Kanara: abundant on the S. hats of N. Kanara in evergreen forests, Talbot; 

 Ilulical, Woodrow !— Distkib. India (W. Peninsula). 



9. AMOORA, Eoxb. 



Trees, often tall ; young parts sometimes lepidote. Leaves usually 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets few- or multi-jugate, entire. Flowers poly- 



