546 xxxvn. MELIACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) [Dysoxylum. 



6. DVSOXYXiUIK, Blume. 



Trees, mostly glabrous. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets quite entire, opposite 

 subopposite or alternate, more or less acuminate at the apex and oblique at 

 the base, coriaceous. Flowers paniculate, hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-fid, 

 dentate or partite or subentire, imbricated, caducous. Petals 4-5, oblong, 

 spreading, valvate or slightly imbricated. /Staminal tube cylindrical, den- 

 tate or crenulate at mouth ; anthers short, 6, 8 or 10, included or half 

 exserted. Dwk tubular, equalling or twice the length of the ovary, cre- 

 nulate or entire at the mouth. Ovary usually 3-4-celled ; style about 

 equalling the staminal tube ; ovules usually 2 in each cell. Capsule globose 

 or ^ear-shaped, coriaceous (often thickly so), 1-4-celled, loculicidal ; seeds 

 arillate or exarillate, exalbuminous. DISTKIB. Species about 40, many 

 in the Malay Archipelago, and a few in Australia and New Zealand. 



The Indian species appear to be endemic. Many species emit an alliaceous odour. 



SECT. L Calyx cup-shaped, subentire, about half the length of the 

 flower. 



1. D. binectariferum, HooJc.f. ex Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 

 212; pallid, It-allots .VJ alternate elliptic acuminate glabrous, panicles 

 nearly glabrous much short IT than tin- leaves, pi-direls shorter than the 

 4-merous obsoletely tomcntose (lowers, calyx thick aiceolate-cupshaped 

 subentire, petals valvate except the apex, disk glabrous inside scarcely 

 so outside twice as long as the 4-eelled shortly hairy ovary, style very 

 shortly hairy, fruit obovoid .soint-what pyriform or subgh>l'o>f nearly 

 glabrate or puberulous. Cluarea bineetarifera, Rnjch. Ilorl. />V//r/. :N : /'/. 

 Tnd. ii. 240; \Y<ill. Cat. 121:0; Gr<ih. ('<//. ttnml>. PL 31. D. macrocarpum, 

 Tlm-aiti-ii Emun. CO; Beddont /'/. 6y/'. t. 150; Ann/. Gen. liv. ; nf ./' 

 Blume. G. Gotadhora, AW/. 11" m. in E<Hnl>. M< ,,i. W> n>. ^<>c. vi. 3u7 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 4884. taxi. />'(. Ii. Kpicharis exarillata, Arn. ex W. & A. Pmdi: 

 i. 120, not of Nimmo. 1 G. Ainaris, ll<niiilt. I.e. 308. 



KHASIA Mrs. jiihl AS-AM; \\i>ni:\ I'IMN-ILA from the Concan southwards; 

 CEYLON (? Sikkim lliin;iluy;i and S. Andaman Islds.). 



A tree 30 ft. hi^li or men. Leaves 9-18 in.; leaflets 2.^-7 by 1-3 in. ; petiolules 

 |-| in. Flowers i! in., pule trrct-n ; c;il)x nearly liali' the length of the tlowrr : staminal 

 tube somewhat inr:,ly on hoth sides. I-'rnit 1'A in. long, reddish, -1-celled, 4-seeded. 

 Seeds polished, dai'k purple. The form with smaller and narrower leaves is the var. 

 of Dr. Thwaites. Amoora lirilorniis, \Viyht Jlltuti: I n<1. Bot. i. 147, closely resembles 

 the Ceylon specimens, and may he synonymous with this species. 



SECT. II. Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite or -sepalous, mostly short. - 

 * Flowers panicled. 

 t Ovary glabrous. 



2. D. forevipes, Iliern; leaflets 5-11 opposite or alternate elliptic or 

 ovate-oblong acuminate glabrous, ultimate pedicels shorter than the 

 glabrous flowers, calyx small cup-shaped irregularly 4-toothed, petals (3-) 4, 

 disk exceeding the 3-4-celled glabrous ovary, fruit pear-shaped 4-valved. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A tree. Leaves 8-24 in. ; leaflets 3-9 by 1-2 in., sometimes obscurely pellucid- 

 punctate ; lateral veins more or less depressed on the upper surfiice ; petiolules ^ in. 

 Flowers ^-i in., white, with a strong alliaceous smell ; petals distinctly but slightly im- 

 bricated at the margin ; staminal tube pilose inside ; connective obtusely apiculate ; ovary 

 glabrous ; style glabrous, smooth, stigma discoid flattened at apex, its base surrounded 



