5 2 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



" And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, 



Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree : 

 And here were forests, ancient as the hills ; 



Enfolding many spots of greenery." Coleridge. 



3. GABDGA. 



G. pinnata. A rather fine tree, most parts hairy, leaflets 

 4 to 9 pairs, oblong pointed, slightly serrated, panicles large of 

 small yellow flowers, calyx bell-shaped 5 -furrowed, whitish, 

 fiuit edible round waxy yellowish green, size of a gooseberry. 

 Kurak, Kunak, KanJcad. 



Ghauts and Konkan hills. Found in many parts of the country, but 

 nowhere in great quantity (D.). Throughout India, (H.~). 



ORDER 31. MELIACE.E. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, usually pinnate and 

 without stipules, sepals and petals 3 to 6, stamens united into 

 a tube, and inserted below the disk, anthers erect, usually 

 sessile on the tube, ovary superior. 



The very perfect staminal tube is as strong a distinguishing mark 

 of this order (except gen. Cedrela and Chloroxylon), as the staminal 

 column is of Malvaceae. Otherwise, the order is nearly allied to 

 Rutaceae. The genera are mainly distinguished by differences in the 

 tube, the disk and the fruit. The flowers are generally small, pale 

 in colour, and in panicles. 



1. TtJRR-EA. Leaves simple, staminal tube toothed, the 

 anthers inserted just within the mouth, disk small, style long, 

 capsule 4-celled or more. 



2. MELIA. Trees, tube dilated at both ends, 10 or 12-toothed, 

 anthers inserted near the top, disk annular, style slender within 

 the tube, fruit a drupe. 



3. DYSOXYLON. Staminal tube toothed or crenulated, 

 anthers included or slightly exserted, disk tubular, capsule 

 roundish. 



4. HEYNEA. Staminal tube deeply divided, lobes linear 

 toothed, the anthers between the teeth, disk fleshy, capsule 

 2-valved. 



5. SOYMIDA. Staminal tube short, cup-shaped, 10-cleft, lobes 

 toothed, anthers sessile between the teeth, disk flat and wide, 

 capsule 5-celled. 



6. CEDRELA. Stamens distinct, 4 to 6, at the top of the 

 lobed disk, capsule 5-celled. 



7. CHLOROXYLON. Stamens 10, free, inserted in the depres- 



