216 XXXTI, MEMACE^. 



14. CHUKRASSIA, Adr. Juss. Mem. Mus. Par. v. 19 (1830) 



p. 251. 



Chickbassia, Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 122 ; Hook. f. & Benth. 

 Gen, Plant. 



A tree. Leaves abruptly-pinnate; leaflets alternate or opposite. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, rather large, in terminal panicles, 4-5-merous. 

 Calyx short, dentate. Petals oblong, free, erect, contorted. Staininal- 

 tube cylindric, its mouth «ith 10 sliort blunt teeth ; anthers 10, erect, 

 inserted within the teeth, entirely exserted. Disk obsolete. Ovary 

 shortly stalked, cylindric, 3-5-celled ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate ; style 

 phort, stout; stigma discoid. Capsule woody, 1-5- (usually 3-) celled, 

 3-5-valved. Seeds uvimerous, winged below, exalbumiuous ; cotyledons 

 orbicular, inequilateral. — Distbib. India, Ceylon ; species 1. 



The name originally given to this genus by Adr. Juss. (Mem. Mub. Par. v. 19 

 [183U] p. '21) was Chiikrussia, derived from the Bengali name of a tree of the genus 

 which Koxburgh (Hurt. Eeng. [1H14] p. ',Vd) gave as ChuA-rasi. Subsequent to the 

 publiciition of the name as (Jhukrassia. by Adr. Juss., Roxburgh (Fl. Ind. [1832] 



f. 399) corrected the Bengali name to Chlckrassee, and Wight and Arnott (Prodr. 

 1834] p. 122) adopted the spelling Chickrassia, as agreeing better with the mure 

 recent vernacular synonym gi\en by Roxburgb. This mode of spelling the name of 

 the genus has been adopted in the ' Genera Plantarum ' of Hooker and Bentham and in 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1 , p. 668. Continental and other foreign botaiiist.s are however reverthig 

 to the original mode of spelling the n;une {e. g. DC. Monogr. Pban. and Harms in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf.), and, as there can be no question as to its correctness, tlie 

 spelling of the name as Chukrassia and not Chickrassia is certain to be ultimately 

 adopted universally. — The change has liierefore been made above. 



1. Chukrassia tabularis, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. v. 19 

 (1830) p. 251, t. 22, tig. 27. A tall tree ; young hranches lenticellate, 

 glabrous. Leaves abruptly-pinnate, 12-18 in. long; leaflets 5-8 pairs, 

 2-5 by 1-2| in. (the upper leaflets often larger than the lower), ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, glabrous above, more or less 

 velvety beneath, base inequilateral, the upper side the larger and 

 usually rounded, the lower side usually acute ; petiolules ^5 in. long. 

 Flowers in terminal panicles which are shorter than the leaves, the 

 branches of the panicles spreading, many-flowered ; buds oblong. 

 Calyx pubescent outside, obtusely 5-toothed. Petals dirty-white, # in. 

 long by ^ in. broad, linear-oblong, spathulate. Staminal-tube cylindric, 

 glabrous. Ovary hairy, attenuated into the style ; stigma 4-lohed, ju.st 

 appearing above the apex of the stamiual-tube. Capsules ovoid or 

 obovoid, I5--.J in. long, by about g in. in diam. Seeds winged, 

 1| by 5 in. (including the wing). 11. B. T. v. 1, p. 568; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 32 ; Harms, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v, 3, part 4, p. 271, 

 fig. 152, s-T ; DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 726 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 43; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 269 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 2, p. 268. — Flowers: Feb. -Apr. Veen. Ldl-devddr ; Dahmtra. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Sfocks ! ; Matheran, H. M. Birdwood. Dbccan : Hewra botanical 

 parden, Dalzelll Kanaka: evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot; Yellapur, 

 Woodrow. — DibTEiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



Var. velvfina, King, in Journ. As.Soc. Beng. v.64 (I895)p.88. Leaflets 

 tomentose or pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles tomentose. Petals 

 puberulous on the outside. Capsules often 4-valved. Trim. VI. Ceyl. 

 v. 1, p. 252 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 43. C. velutina (sp.), Wight & Aru. 



