Forsten considers it especially useful in bilious fevers, and inveterate 

 diarrhoea arising from atony of the muscular fibre. 



CHICKRASSIA. 



Calyx short, 5-toothed. Petals 5, erect. Stamen-tube cylin- 

 dric-oblong, with 10 crenatures, each bearing 1 terminal exserted 

 anther : ovary oblong, seated on a short disk of its own breadth, 

 3-celled : ovules numerous in each cell. Style thick, scarcely 

 distinct from the ovary : stigma capitate, 3-lobed. Capsule 

 ovoid, 3-celled, 3-valved, dehiscing from the apex, septifragal : 

 the woody sarcocarp separating from the endocarp,and both from 

 the large persistent axis, which is 3-wingedby the dissepiments. 

 Seed numerous, imbricated horizontally in a double row. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnated, occasionally bipinnate in luxuriant 

 plants : leaflets nearly opposite. Panicles terminal. Flowers 

 pretty large. Sometimes the number of parts of the flower is 

 diminished by a fifth. 



308. C. tabularis A. de J. Meliac. 99. W. and A. i. 123. 

 Plagiotaxis Chickrassa Wall. cat. 1269. Swietenia Chick- 

 rassa Roxb. fl. ind. ii. 399. Mountainous country eastward 

 from Bengal. 



Leaves alternate, abruptly-pinnate, in luxuriant plants often bipin- 

 nate, from 6-18 inches long ; leaflets nearly opposite, in from 2 to 

 10 pairs, subsessile, obliquely-ovate, with a pretty long tapering point, 

 entire, smooth on both sides, increasing in size towards the apex of the 

 leaf; petioles round, with here and there a small scabrous speck. 

 Stipules none. Panicles terminal, erect, rather large. Flowers nu- 

 merous. Bracts minute. Calyx inferior, small, 5-parted; the lobes 

 spreading, linear, cuneate, slightly emarginate. Stamen-tube subcylin- 

 drical, rather shorter than the petals, striated ; with 10 short antheri- 

 ferous teeth. Anthers cordate. Ovary oblong, striated, a little hairy. 

 Style just long enough to raise the large peltate stigma even with 

 the mouth of the stamen tube. Capsule oval, somewhat pointed, 

 scabrous, the size of a small pullet's egg, 3-celled, 3-valved, with 

 double integuments, and a 3-winged placenta. Seeds numerous, 

 winged and imbricated in a double series across the cells. Bark 

 powerfully astringent without bitterness. Roxb. 



KHAYA. 



Sepals 4, imbricated. Petals 4, spreading. Filaments 8, 

 united in a ventricose tube, with 8 contorted teeth, having 8 an- 

 thers inside. Ovary 4-celled, with 16 ovules in each cell ; stigma 

 discoidal. Capsule globose, 4-celled, septifragal, with 4 woody 

 valves separating from a 4-winged axis. 



309. K. senegalensis A. de J. Meliac. 98. Fl. sewgamb. 

 i. 130. t. 32. Swietenia senegalensis Lam. diet. iii. 679. DC. 

 prodr. i. 625 Borders of the Gambia, a common forest tree. 



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