] 1 1 MORINGE^:. [ Kloriiiga, 



ORDER XXXVIII. MOEINGEJE. 



1. MORINGA, Juss. 



Wood soft, white. Pores large, scanty, usually in groups of two 

 or three. Medullary rays short, moderately broad. 



1. M. pterygosperma, Gaertn.; Hook. PI. Ind. ii. 45 ; Beddome t. 

 80; Brandis 129; Kurz i. 68. Hyperanthera Moringa, Roxb. Fl. lud. ii. 

 36b. The Horse Radish Tree. Vern. Soanjna, sanjna, senjna, sejna, 

 soliajna, sainjan, Hind. ; Sujuna, Beng. ; Swanjera, Sind. ; Munigka, 

 Uriya; Morunga, Tarn. ; Saihan, sejan, munga, mulaka, Tel.; Nuggee, 

 Kan. ; T)ainfJia } dan-tha-lone, Burm. 



A tree. Bark one inch thick, grey, corky, with longitudinal cracks. 

 "Wood soft, white, spongy, perishable. Wood cells large, prominent. 

 Pores large, scanty, often in groups or short radial lines of two or three. 

 Medullary rays short, fine to moderately broad ; the distance between 

 them less than the transverse diameter of the pores. 



Wild in the Sub-Himalayan tract from the Chenab to Oudh ; commonly culti- 

 vated in India and Burma. 



The tree is pretty ; it is generally grown on account of its fruit, which is eaten as a 

 vegetable and is pickled. The root has a strong flavour of horse radish, and is used 

 in medicine as a vesicant. It yields an oil similar to the Sen oil of watch-makers, 

 which is not the produce of this but of another species, M. aptera^ Gaertn., of Africa. 

 It also gives a reddish gum used in native medicine. The leaves aud flowers are 

 eaten as well as the fruit, and the branches are lopped for cattle fodder. 



E 3214. Calcutta. 



2. M. concanensis, Nimmo; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 45; Brandis 130. 

 Vern. Sainjna, Rajputana. 



A tree, bark thick, soft, corky. Wood white, soft, in structure resem- 

 bling that of H. pterygosperma^ except that the pores are more variable 

 in size and the medullary rays rather finer. 



ttajputana, Sind, Konkan. 



Wood apparently not used. The unripe fruit is eaten. 



E 3226. Nagpahar, Ajmere. 



ORDER XXXIX. CONNARACEJE. 



An Order of little importance, containing 4 genera of Indian trees and shrubs, 

 found in Ka stern Bengal, South India and Burma. Sourea contains 6 species, four 

 being scandent shrubs from Eastern Bengal, Teoasserim, and tbe Andamans ; and one, 

 R. santaloides, Vahl. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 47; Beddome Ixxxi. from South India. 

 Connarus contains (j .Burmese and two South Indian species: one, C. paiiiculntua, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 139 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 5*2. extruding to Chittagong, Syllu't and 

 the Klmsia Hills. Cnestls rain'tjloru, Grill'. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 54. (C. platantka, 

 (iriir. ; Kur/ i. 328.) Vern. Tankyct Ionic, Burm., is a large climbing shrub of 

 Uurnui ; and JMijtanlhus contains three Burmese shrubs or small trees. 



ORDER XL. LEGUMINOS^]. 



The largest Order of Indian trees, shrubs or rlimbers. It contains about 70 genera 

 contnininu- spcri.s (lisdibuted over the whole of Icdiii, <-<nuilly in the arid regions ( ,f 



