558 xxxvu. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) [Lansium. 



cated. Staminal tube globose, crenulated ; anthers 10, obtuse, usually in 

 two rows, the shorter ones included, the longer partly exserted sometimes 

 apiculate. Disk obsolete. Ovary globose, 3-5-celled ; cells 1-2-ovuled ; 

 style very short, thick, stigma truncate 3-5-lobed. Fruit baccate, edible, 

 1-5-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds oblong, with ventral hile, invested in a 

 pulpy aril, exalbuminous. DISTEIB. A genus of scarcely more than the 

 following 4 species, confined to India and the Malay Archipelago. 



The juicy envelope of the seeds is* the part eaten, and the taste is cooling and 

 it. 



* Leaflets 3-5. 



1. Zi. anamalayanum, Be J dome in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 212 ; Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or. 104; Fi. >b////v/f. t. 131; leaflets alternate elliptic obtusely 

 acuminate base cuneate glabrous except occasionally hairy glands in axils 

 of veins beneath, sepals shortly ciliate, ovary strigose 3-lobed and -celled, 

 cells 2-ovuled, fruit oblong, radicle pubescent. 



WESTERN PENINSII.A; common in the m<5ist woods on the Anamallay hills, and in 

 the Wynaad, alt. ahout 2000 ft., Beddome. 



A good-si/L-d tree. Leaves 6-9 in. ; leaflets 3^4 ^7 l$-2 in.; petiolule |-| in. JL r- 

 maplirudite flowers sessile, about iu. diam. Fruit us big as a large grape. 



2. X*. pedicellatum, Hiern ; leaflets 3-5 alternate or subopposite 

 elliptic acuminate glabrous base oblique obtuse or cuneate, ? racemes 

 short simple or branched at the base, flowers pedicelled, ovary shortly 

 tomentose 4-celled. 



MALACCA, Mainyay. 



Mtoot* pale brown, obsoletely lepidote. Leaves 9-12 in.; leaflets 3-6 by 14-3 in. 

 petiolule %-\ i n - l n g- 9 lnj/<>r< 06 net 1-2 in. long ; pedicels -& in. long. Young 

 fruit subglobose, fleshy, shortly tomentose, in. diam. 



3. Xi. cinereum, Hiern; leaflets 3-5 opposite elliptic obtusely acu- 

 minate base cuneate coriaceous glabrous shining except the veins, sepals 

 short, ovary hairy 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled. 



MALACCA, Main gay. 



Brandies cinereous, tawny-pubescent at the extremities. Leaves 3-5 in. ; leaflets 

 pallid, 2-34 by |-U in. ; petiolule -|in. Hermaphrodite spikes nearly equalling the 

 leaves. Longer anthers apiculate.. 



** Leaflets 6-8. 



4. Zi. domesticum, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 115, t. iv. f. 1, var. ; 

 leaflets alternate elliptic oblong or obovate abruptly shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate more or less narrowed at the base reticulate coriaceous shining 

 nearly or quite glabrous, petiolules tumid at the base, hermaphrodite 

 spikes springing from the trunk and naked branches solitary or fasciculate 

 pubescent shorter than the leaves, ovary tomentose 5-celled, cells 1-2- 

 ovuled. Correct, de Serra in Ann. Mus. x. 157, t. 7, f. 1. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Maingay, cult.). DISTKIB. Widely cultivated in India, and per- 

 haps spontaneous in the 4 Malay Archipelago. Philippine Islands, according to Blanco. 



A tree. Leaves 9-18 in. long ; leaflets 4-8 by 2-4 in. ; petiolules |~4 i n - -Flowers 

 sessile or subsessile. Fruit 1-14 i n - l n g> yellowish, turbinate-ellipsoidal. According 

 to Griffith the spikes are proliferous at the apex. 



L. javanicum, Poemer S//nops. Mnnogr. i. 99; Aglaia Dookkoo, Griff. Notul. iv. 505; 

 SL. aqueum, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 3i; and L. huruile, Hassk. lietz. ed. 



