Lansium.} xxxvu. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) 559 



nov. i. 121, are probably also varieties of this cultivated species. L. silvestre, 

 JBoemer, I.e. according to Miquel, I.e. scarcely belongs to Meliaceas ; the plant intended 

 by this name has been referred by De Candolle to Cookia punctata, JRetz. 



11. A1KOORA, Roxb. . 



Trees. Leaves usually unequally-pinnate ; leaflets oblique quite entire 

 axillary subdicecious, paniculate ; female spicate or racemose. Colyx 3-5- 

 partite or -fid. Petals 3-5, thick, concave, imbricated, rarely slightly com- 

 bined at the base. Staminal tube subglobose or campanulate, incon- 

 spicuously 6-10-crenate; anthers 6-10, included. Disk obsolete. Ovary 

 sessile, short, 3-5-celled; cells 1-2-ovuled ; stigma sessile, or style elon- 

 gated in A. Championii. Capsule subglobose, coriaceous, 3-4-celled and 

 -seeded, loculicidally 3-5-valved. Seeds in a fleshy aril, with ventral hile. 

 DISTRIB. A genus of about 15 species occurring only in India and the 

 Malay Archipelago, and also 1 endemic species in Australia. 



SECT. I. Style short ; staminal tube subglobose or turbinate. 



* Panicles spicate, male branched, female simple or branched ; flowers sub- 

 sessile. Staminal tube Q-toothed; anthers 6. 



1. A. Rohituka, TF. & A. Prodr. i. 119; young parts tawny closely 

 pubescent in most cases quickly glabrescent leafy, leaflets 9-15 more or less 

 elliptic or ovate acuminate opposite base usually obtuse shortly petiolulate, 

 flowers white bracteate subsessile, male spikes panicled, female simple, 

 calyx 5-partite, petals 3, anthers 6, ovary 3-c elled with 2 superposed ovules 

 in each cell. Bedd. FL Sylvat. t. 132 (but pedicels in. long); Bran- 

 dis For. Fl. 69. Andersonia Rohituka, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 87 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 

 213 ; Roxb. Drawings in fib. Kew. tt. 934, 1827. Sphaerosacme polystachya, 

 Wall. Cat. 1277. Aglaia 1 polystachya, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, 

 ii. 429. S. spicata,JPa#. Cat. 4895. Buchanania spicata Hb. Roxb. ex Wall. l.c. 

 Meliacea Wightiana, Wall. Cot. 4888. Amo -ra macrophylla, Nimmo in 

 Grali. Cat. Bomb. PL 31. Andersonia Rohitoca, Grif. Notul. iv. 507 ; Ic. 

 PL Asiat, iv. t. 589, f. 3. 



ASSAM, SILHET, CACHAK, OUDH, WESTERN PENINSULA from Ooncan to Travancore, 

 TENASSERIM and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, MALACCA, CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Philippine Islds. 



An evergreen tree with a large crown of branches. Leaves 1-3 ft. ; leaflets 3-9 

 by 1 q-4 in. Male panicles equalling or shorter than the leaves, female about half the 

 length of the leaves; male flowers ^, female in. long. Stigma trigonous, angles 

 opposite the calyx-lobes. Fruit smooth, pale yellow or reddish, 1-1 4 in. diam., scarcely 

 attenuate at the base, rather soft and fleshy, 3-celled, 3-valved. The seeds supply an 

 economic oil. Col. Beddome, in his Flora Sylvatica. t. 132, figures and describes under 

 this name a form from the Anamallay hills with shortly pedicelled flowers, the pedicels 

 measuring %-\ in. long. A plant gathered by Dr. Hooker in the Sikkirn Terai and 

 Kursiong with very large leaves, the leaflets measuring 12-15 by 3-6 in., may belong 

 to this species. 



** Flowers panicled^ not spicate. 



t Petals 3. Anthers 6-10. 



% Leaflets 3-6, alternate or subalternate. 



2. A. chittag-ong-a, Hiern ; young parts calyx and fruit lepidote, 

 leaflets 3-6 alternate and subalternate narrowly elliptic acuminate sub- 



