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gaino-dioecious, small, the male in axillary panicles, the female usually 

 in spikes or racemes. Calj-x 3-5-partite or -fid. Petals 3-5, thick, 

 concave, free or rarely slightly united at the base, imbricate or rarely 

 valvate. Staminal-tube a little shorter than the petals, subglobose or 

 campanulate, obsoletely 6-10-crenate ; anthers 6-10, included, sessile or 

 subsessile. Disk obsolete. Ovary sessile, depressed, 3-5-celled ; ovules 

 1-2 in each cell ; style or short or elongate; stigma entire or toothed. 

 Capsule subglobose, coriaceous or woody, 3-4-celled ; cells 1-seeded, 

 loculicidally 3-5-valved. 8eeds in a fleshy aril, with ventral hilum ; 

 cotyledons often couferruminate ; radicle superior. — Disthib. Tropical 

 and Subtropical Asia, Polynesia and Australia ; species about 25. 



Leaves iniparipinnate. 

 Petals 3 ; anthers 6. 



Seeds with a scarlet aril 1. A. EohituJca. 



Seeds with an orange-colored aril 2. A. cucuUata. 



Petal84; antliers 8 3. A. Lawii. 



Leaves abruplly-pimiate 4. A. caiiamna. 



1. Amoora Rohituka, Wi(/ht Sf Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 119. An 

 evergreen tree 30-60 ft. high ; young parts finely silky. Leaves large, 

 imparipinnate, 1-2| ft. long ; leaflets opposite, 4-8 pairs and an odd 

 one, 3-9 by I5-4. in., elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, very inequilateral, obtuse or acute at the base ; 

 petiolules \-^ in. long. Male flowers numerous, erect, \ in, long, sub- 

 globular, in solitary axillary panicles more than half as long as the leaves, 

 the branches of the panicle about 3 in. long spreading at right angles or 

 slightly drooping ; bracts beneath each flower small, scale-like ; pedicels 

 short. Calyx glabrous, 5-partite ; lobes orbicular, ciliate. Petals 3, 

 orbicular, concave, thick, glabrous, ujuch larger than the calyx-lobes. 

 Staiiiinal-tube nearly as long as the petals, subglobular, with a small 

 opening at the apex ; anthers 6, subsessile, elliptic-oblong, attached near 

 the base of the tube, the tips just exserted. Female or hermaphrodite 

 FLOWERS larger than the uiale, in axillary or supra-axillary solitary 

 spikes much shorter than the leaves. Calyx and petals as in the male, 

 the anthers narrower. Ovary hairy, globular or ellipsoid; stigma 

 3-Iobed. Pruit 1-1 1 in. in diam., globular, yellow when ripe ; pericarp 

 coriaceous, smooth, 3-celled, opening by 3 valves. Seed oblong with 

 a scarlet aril. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 559 ; Trim. PL Ceyl. v. 1, p. 249 ; DC. 

 Monogr. Phau. v. 1, p. 581 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 41 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 269 ; King, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 V. 64 (1895) p. 53 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 224. Amoora 

 macrojjJu/lla, Nimiiio, in Grab. Cat. p. 31. Aphannmixis Rohituka, 

 Pierre, PI. For. Cochinch. t. 344 ; Harms, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 v. 3, part 4, p. 292, fig. 162, q. — Flowers : July. 



KoNKAN : Law I, Sfoc/cs ! ; S. Konkan Ghats, Talbot. Deccan : Khandala, Graham ■ 

 planted in gardens, Woodrow. Kanaka : abundant in the forests of Yellapiir (N. 

 Kanara), Talbot. — Disthib. India (W. Peninsula, Assam, Oude) ; Ceylon, Malaya, 

 Philippines. 



2. Amoora cucullata, Roxh. Cor. PI. v. 3 (1819) p. 51, t. 258. 

 A tree 3U-40 ft. high. Leaves imparipinnate, 12-15 in. long; leaflets 

 2-4 pairs and an odd one, o)iposite or subopposite, 3-7 by 1^-2^ in., 

 oblong-elliptic, subfalcatp, subacute, glabrous on both surfaces, base 

 rounded very inequilateral except that of the terminal leaflet ; petiolules 



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