218 XXXVI. iraLTACE^. 



Disk thick, ]0-lobed, pube-'cent. Stamens 10, inserted in the sinuses 

 at the base of the disk ; filaments subulate, the alternate somewhat 

 longer ; anthers cordate, apiculate, versatile. Ovary immersed in the 

 disk, pubescent, depressed, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; ovules about 8 in each 

 cell, attached to the axis, ascending ; style short ; stigma obscurely 

 3-lobed. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds compressed, exalbuminous, margins angular, winged above ; 

 cotyledons plano-convex. — Distuib. India and Ceylon ; species 1. 



I. Chloroxylon Swietenia, DC. Prodr. v. 1 (1824) p. 625. 

 A tree 3U-40 ft. high ; bark corky, rough, deeply furrowed, yellowish. 

 Leaves G-9 in. long, abruptly-pinnate : leaflets subopposite or alternate, 

 10-20 pairs, |-1| by ^-^ in., oblong, obtuse, glabrous, glaucous, very 

 inequilateral, the upper side of the leaflet larger than the lower and 

 rounded, the lower side acute at the base ; petiolules j-g— I ^^- ^*^"o* 

 Flowers in branched many-flowered terminal and axillary panicles 

 shorter than the leaves ; buds globose ; bracts minute, caducous. Calyx 

 pubescent, deeply divided ; lobes ovate. Petals -f^ in. long, ovate, 

 acute, sagittate at the base, abruptly and shortly clawed, externally 

 pubescent. Disk fleshy, pubescent. Stamens inserted between the 

 lobes of the disk, shorter tlian the petals. Ovary immersed in the disk, 

 3-lobed, pubescent. Capsules oblong, acute, glabrous. Seeds |-yV Jn. 

 long (including the membranous, somewhat falcate wing), y^ in. broad. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 5(59 ; Grab. Cat. p. 32 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 39 ; Engler, in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 4, p. 171, fig. 99, A-ii (under 

 Eutacece) ; DC. :Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 748 ; Trim. FL' Ceyl. v. 1, p. 253 : 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 43 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 209; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 270.— Flowers : Mar.-Apr. 

 Vebn. Halda ; Billu. 



Konkan: Law\, S/oc/csl, Balzelll, Woodrowl S. M. Country: abundant in the dry 

 deciduous forests of tlie Dharwar and Belgaum districts, Talhot; Falls of Goknk, 

 Graham, Woodroto; hills N. of Belganra, lUtchie, 104! — Distrib. India (VV. 

 Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



The Indian Satinwood tree. Tlie wood is hard and durable, beautifully mottled and 

 excellent for the manufacture of furniture, for ■which purpose it is much used in 

 Ceylon. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



Ordee XXXVII. CHAILLETIACE^. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire ; stipules 2, 

 deciduous. Flowers small, unisexual or polygamous, in corymbose 

 cymes. Sepals 5, free or connate, imbricate. Petals 5, free, sub- 

 perigynous, notched or 2-fid, with often an inflexed lamina which is 

 adnate to the face of the petal. Stamens 5, subperigynous, all or some 

 only fertile, free or adnate to the corolla ; antliers oblong : connective 

 often thickened at the back. Disk of 5 glands or scales or a5-glandular 

 or lobed cup. Ovary free, 2-3-celled ; ovules anatropous, in pairs from 

 the top of each cell, pendulous ; styles 1-3, free or more or less 

 connate ; stigmas simpler or capitate. Drupe pubescent or his])id, 

 transversely oblong or didymous, compressed ; epicai-p entire or split 1 ing 

 and disclosing the putamou ; putamen 1-3-celled, the cells 1-seedod. 



