Dysoxylum.\ xxxvn. MELIACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) 547 



by a viscid ring. Ovules 2 together, superposed. Fruit brownish-orange, 1^-2 in. 

 long ; seeds attached by a broad ovoid hile to the axis ; testa externally of a chestnut 

 colour. 



tt Ovary more or less hairy. 

 J Disk densely hairy at the mouth. 



3. D. thyrsoideum, Griff, mss. sub Hartighsea ; leaflets 5-9 more or less 

 alternate elliptic or oblong acuminate glabrous shining, panicles divaricately 

 branched, ultimate pedicels about equalling the glabrous 4-5-merous 

 flowers, calyx small cup-shaped or nearly flat irregularly toothed, disk 

 hairy on both sides especially at the mouth fleshy truncate rather exceeding 

 the 3-celled slightly hairy ovary, fruit obovoid. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew distrib. 1053). 



A tree. Leaves 12-16 in.; leaflets 4-10 by 2-3 \ in.; lateral veins obscurely de- 

 pressed on the upper surface; petiolule |-^ in. Flowers ^ in. , white. Fruits fleshy, 

 2-3-lobed, umbilicate, nearly 1 in. long. Fruiting peduncles stout, woody. /Style robust, 

 stigma discoid sub-3-lobed. Seeds exarillate. 



4. D. procerum, Hiern ; leaflets 7-10 alternate or opposite elliptic or 

 oblong abruptly acuminate glabrous, branches of elongated panicle spread- 

 ing, ultimate pedicels very short, bracteate near the apex, calyx shortly 

 cup-shaped 4-5-toothed, corolla appressedly pubescent 4-5-merous, anthers 

 8 or 10, disk twice the length of the 3-4-celled hairy ovary hairy at the 

 apex and inside, fruit pyriform-globose, pericarp thick, seeds arillate. 

 Guarea procera, Wall. Cat. 1261. G. oblonga, Wall. Cat. 1262. G. Gobara, 

 Hamilt. in Mem. Wern. Soc. vi. 306 (1832) ; Wall. Cat. 4885. Hartighsea 

 Gobara, W. & A. ex VoigtHort. Sub. Gale. 136. Cfr. Guarea acuminata, Wall. 

 Cat. 1263, Cfr. G. disyphonia, Griff. Notul. iv. 503. 



From ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS., and CACHAR to TENASSERIM. 



A large tree. Leaves 1-2 4 ft. ; leaflets 4-14 by 2-6 in.; petiolule -| in. Flowers 

 |~4 in. ; petals valvate or very slightly imbricate ; staminal tube glabrous. Fruit 

 2 by H in., 3-4-celled. 



Disk glabrous at the mouth or nearly so. 



5. D. grande, Hiern; puberulent, leaflets 12 alternate oblong 

 caudate-acuminate base rounded, panicles about equalling leaves, flowers 

 shortly pedicelled clustered 4-merous, calyx 'short, staminal tube thinly 

 pubescent on both sides 8-toothed teeth bifid, disk shortly tubular glabrous 

 outside rather exceeding the hairy 4-celled ovary. Guarea grandis, Wall. 

 Cat. 4883. 



EASTERN BENGAL; at Silhet (Wall). 



Leaves 2 ft. ; petiole 5J in. long; leaflets 5-9 by 2|-3 in. ; petiolules in. Flowers 

 in. long. 



6. I>. XHaingrayi, Hiern ; leaflets 5-7 opposite or subopposite elliptic 

 obtusely acuminate glabrous base cuneate, panicles short not much 

 branched, flowers about equalling the pedicels 5-merous, calyx short 

 flattish very shortly toothed, staminal tube obtusely crenate, anthers 10, 

 disk just exceeding the hairy 4-celled ovary. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Leaves 6-9 in., pale ; leaflets 2^-5 by 1-2 in.; lateral petiolules short, terminal \ in. 

 Panicles 1^ in. long. Petals somewhat hairy outside, adnate in bud with the glabrous 

 staminal tube, at length free, J in. long. Disk glabrous outside, hirsute inside, 5- 

 toothed. Style glabrous except the base. According 'to Dr. Mningay's mss., the 

 ovary is 5-celled, each cell opposite a calyx-lobe and containing 2 collateral ovules. 



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