

Order 3 1 . Meliacece. 5 5 



Amoora, staminal tube roundish or bell-shaped, slightly crenated, 

 no disk. xd.cucuUata. Bark ash-coloured, leaflets few pair, unequal- 

 sided, male flowers in long drooping panicles, female in racemes, 

 calyx lobes and petals 3, fruit roundish with orange-coloured aril. 

 0. had at Khandala a solitary tree of *A Rohituka with leaves about 

 3 feet long, fruit like a ball of Windsor soap, opening from the apex, 

 seeds solitary scarlet. Rohitak, haramkhdni. It is widely spread 

 over the E. and S. of India (H.). *A. Lawii (Nemedra Nimmonii (D.)> 

 flowers small, white, scaly, scarcely opening, fruit size of a plum, 

 abounding in white juice. Burumb. S. Konkan (D.). 



Walsura, disk fleshy, stigma toothed. *TF. piscidia, leaves trifoliate, 

 staminal tube deeply cleft, the divisions bifid, flowers very small and 

 numerous, yellowish-white, berry dark-brown, velvety, one or two- 

 seeded. 



Chickrassia, staminal tube crenate, disk none, ovary short stalked, 

 *C. tabularis (Q. nimmonii, D.). A very fine tree, leaflets 10 to 16 

 ovate, flowers yellowish or red, capsule woody, size of an apple, 3 to 

 5-valved, seeds winged. Pabh, Chikrds* Tungar hills ($.). Eohe 

 jungles (D.). 



The three orders which follow are small ones, chiefly 

 tropical ; and the species found in W. India are nearly all 

 trees, and neither common nor in any way remarkable. They 

 have all simple alternate leaves and small flowers, and unless 

 otherwise stated are found only on the Ghauts. 



OEDEE 32. CHAILLETIACEJE. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 5 with a disk. 

 Chailletia, petals 2-lobed narrow, disk of 5 scales. 



*C. gelonoides. Leaves broad lanceolate, pointed, flowers in 

 numerous small fascicles, ovary broad woolly, fruit size of a nutmeg, 

 2-lobed, downy, with red aril. 



OEDEE 33. OLACINE^. 



Petals 3 to 6, stamens 3-15, anthers erect, disk cup-shaped. 



1. Olax, calyx cup -shaped increasing with the fruit, stigma 3-lobed. 

 0. Wightiana, leaves ovate, oblong, flowers white in racemes, fertile 

 stamens 3, with 5 staminodes much larger: fruit smooth oblong, 

 half covered by the calyx. Kdlagonda. H. mentions a variety found 

 by Mr. Law with large leafy bracts. * 0. scandens, a large prickly 

 climber, leaves ovate oblong, flowers white in racemes, petals 

 irregularly cleft, fertile stamens 3, staminodes bifid, drupe yellow 

 like an acorn, nearly hid in the calyx. Harduli, archiri. Khandala 

 and Ghauts (#.). Satpuras (B.). Not in D. 



2. Strombosia, petals and stamens 5, disk 5-lobed, fruit surmounted 

 by the calyx lobes and style. * S. Zeylanica (Sph&rocarpa leprosa, 

 D.). Bark greyish, leaves large oblong, flowers in nearly sessile 

 clusters, fruit roundish, purple, wrinkled and scaly. 



