XXXVI. MELIACE^. 213 



(immature) obovoid. Fl. B. I, v. 1, p. 560; DC. Monogr. Phan. v 1, 

 p. 586; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 41 ; VVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. u' 

 (1897) p. 269.— Flowers : Mar.-April. 



Kanaiia : Stocks ! ; Goond, Talbot, 2730 ! ; throughout the evergreen forests of 

 N. Kanara, from Goond southwards, Talhut. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



10. CARAPA, Aubl. 



Glabrous littoral trees. Leaves imparl- or abruptly-pinnate ; leaflets 

 opposite, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, in lax axillary cymose 

 panicles. Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite. Petals 4-5, free, reflexed. 

 Staniiual-tube urceolate-globose, 8-10-deutate, the teeth entire or bi- 

 partite ; anthers 8-1 U, alternate with the teeth of the staminal-tube. 

 Disk tleshy, cup-shaped, adherent to the base of the ovary. Ovary 4-5- 

 ribbed or suloate, 4-5-celled ; ovules 2-8 in each cell ; style short ; 

 stigma discoid. Fruit capsular, subglobose, large, 6-12-seeded ; pericarp 

 tleshy, dehiscing by 4 valves. Seeds exarillate, large, thick, angular ; 

 testa hard, spongy ; hilum large, ventral ; cotyledons amygdaloidal. — 

 DiSTEiB. Tropical countries, usually littoral ; species 6. 



1. Carapa obovata, Blume, Bljdr. (1825) p. 179. A small tree. 

 Leaves abruptly-pinnate, 3-6 ia. long; leaflets coriaceous, 1-2 pairs, 

 3-4 by Ig-ll in., oblong-obovate or elliptic, obtuse or shortly acuminate, 

 rarely subacute or notched, glabrous, base narrowed, subequilateral ; 

 petioles \-^ in. long. Flowers in axillary few-flowered cymose panicles 

 li-2| in. long ; pedicels g-| in. long. Calyx-teeth broad, rounded. Petals 

 I in. long, broadly elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex. 8taminal-tube 

 shorter than the petals ; anthers included. Ovary broadly ovoid ; style 

 conical ; stigma large, discoid. Fruit the size of an orange, 3-4 in. in 

 diam., apiculate when young, not so when ripe. Seeds angular ; testa 

 hard, spongy. King, in Journ. As. Soc. Beug. v. 64 (1895) p. 87; DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 718. Carcqjci violuccensis, Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 567 

 {in part); Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 136 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 251 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 42 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 141. 



Sea-coasts of the Koukan, Talhot. — Distrib. Muddy sea-coasts of India and Ceylon, 

 Tropical Africa, Malaya, N. Australia. 



11. WALSURA, Eoxb. 



Trees. Leaves 1-5-foliolate ; leaflets usually opposite, entire. 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary and terminal many-flowered 

 panicles. Calyx short, 5-hd or 5-partite, imbricate. Petals 5, free, 

 imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 1(3 or 8 ; filaments linear or fliittened, 

 free or connate into a tube ; anthers terminal, or inserted in the notch 

 at the apex of the filament. Disk usually annular, fleshy. Ovary short, 

 2-3-celled, sunk in the disk ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral ; style 

 short ; stigma turbinate-capitate, 2-3-toothed. Fruit baccate, shortly 

 tomentose, indehiscent, 1- (rarely 2-) celled, ]-2-seeded. Seeds en- 

 closed in a fleshy aril, exalbuminous. — Distbib. India, Malaya ; species 

 about 12. 



1. Walsura piscidia, Roxh. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 32. A small 

 tree ; young parts glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets subcoriaceous, 

 2-3^ by l-H ^"•' oblong-elliptic, obtuse, sometimes retuse, glabrous on 



