214 XXXTI. MELTACE^E. 



both surfaces, shining above, paler beneath (tlie lateral leaflets opposite, 

 very shortlv-petioluled, the terminal with a lone;er petinlule), base sub- 

 acute. Flowers yellowish-white, in corymbosely-brancbed axillary or 

 terminal panicles about equalling the leaves ; buds globose ; peduncles 

 long, pubescent; bracts minute, triangular, caducous. Calyx small, 

 pubescent outside ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals J^ in. long, ovate-oblong, 

 acute, glabrous or puberulous outside, imbricate. Staminal-tube half as 

 long as the petals, hairy inside, equally lO-deft for about two-thirds of 

 its length, the divisions 2-toothecl at the apex ; anthers 10, acuminate, 

 slightly hairy, inserted between the teeth and exceeding them. Disk 

 large, annular. Ovary sunk in the disk ; stigma 2-dentate. Berry 

 |-§ in. long, ovoid, oblong or subglobose, bright orange-yellow when 

 ripe, finelv tomentose, minutely apiculate. Seed usually solitary, com- 

 pletely enveloped in a wdiite juicy aril. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 564; DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 634 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 1, p. 250 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 41 : AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 269 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 299. — Flowers : Nov. Verk. Wdlswa ; 

 Wahirsi. 



F, M. DoUNTRT I Eamghat, plentiful, Dalzelll Kanaka: erergrpen forpsts of 

 N. Kfiiwra, common in the Devimana Ghat forests, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. 

 Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



The bark of the tree is used for poisoning fish ; hence the specific name. 



12. HEYNEA, Eoxb. 

 Trees, rarely shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, petio- 

 luled, entire. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary and terminal 

 corymbosely-brancbed long-peduncled panicles. Calyx 4-5-fid, imhri- 

 cate. Petals 4-5, free, oblong, sniierect, subimhricatp, much longer than 

 the calyx. 8taminal-tube deeply 8-10-tid, the lobes linear, 2-toothed at 

 the apex, bearing the anthers between the linear teeth. Disk annular, 

 fleshy. Ovary sunk in the disk, 2-3-celled, narrowing into the style; 

 ovules 2 in each cell ; style as long as or longer than the ovary ; stigma 

 discoid, 2-3-dentate. Fruit capsular, 1-celled, 2-valved, 1 -seeded. Seeds 

 exalburainous, with a thin white aril ; cotyledons hemispheric ; radicle 

 superior. — Distrib. India, Malaya ; species 3. 



1. Heynea trijuga, Ro.vh. Jlort. Bouj. (1814) p. 33. A small tree 

 reaching 30 ft. Leaves 6-15 in. long: couunon petiole with a thickened 

 base ; rhacbis slender, glabrous ; leaflets 2-6 pairs and an odd one, 

 22-5.7 by 1-2| in., ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous above, glaucous and pubescent or glabrous beneath, base 

 rounded or acute; petiolulps ^-g in. long, the terminal ones the longer. 

 Flowers about ^ in. long, white, in corymbosely-branched panicles 

 nearly as long as the leaves ; peduncles very long, slender, glabrous ; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, caducous. Calyx with a few scattered hairs on 

 the outside ; lobes ovate, subacute. Petals much longer than the calyx 

 with a thickened midrib and membranous finely ciliolate margins. 

 Slaminal-lube shorter than the ])etals, split for about two-thirds of its 

 length, the lobes linear, 2-dentate, slightly hairy outside, densely so 

 within ; anthers between the teeth of the lobes, about equal to them 

 in length or a little longer, slightly mucronate. Ovary glabrous; 

 style slightly obconical ; stigma 2-dentate, with a thickened ring at 

 the base. Capsules ;',-^ in. long, ovoid or subglobose. Fl. B. I. v. 1, 



