560 xxxvu. MELIACE^J. (W. P. Hiern.) [Amoora. 



glabrescent, base more or less narrowed, panicles racemose rather lax much 

 shorter than the leaves, calyx cup-shaped 3-toothed, petals 3, anthers 6, 

 ovary 2-celled, fruit obovoid. Aglaia chittagonga, Miq. in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd.-Bat. iv. 44. Meliacea, Griff. I tin. Notes 168. 



BHOTAN and UPPER ASSAM, Griffith; the KHASIA MTS., CHITTAOONO, J. D. H. & 

 T. T. (Milnea, No. 13); PEGU, Kurz. 



A tree. Leaves 6-12 in. ; leaflets 3-8 by 1-3 in. ; petiolule -^ in. Floirers T V~J in. 

 long, pedicelled. Fruit (immature?) in. long, longitudinally rfdged, 2-celled. 



3. A. canarana, Benth. rfr Honk. f. Gen. PI. i. 335 ; young parts inflo- 

 rescence calyx and fruit lepidote, leaflets 4-6 alternate or subalternate 

 narrowly elliptic acuminate glabrate above usually punctate-lepidote 

 beneath, base more or less narrowed shortly petiolulate, panicles pyramidal 

 much branched shorter than the leaves, flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx 

 4-5-toothed cup-shaped ebracteate, corolla 3- (-4) -partite, stamina! tube 

 truncate, anthers 6 (-7) included or slightly exserted, ovary 3-celled, cells 

 2-ovuled, fruit obovoicL Oraoma canarana, Turcz. m Bull. Soc. Nat. Mn*c. 

 1868, i 411. 



\.YESTKI:N PEMNSL'LA, from Canara, AV'W.v?, to tho Anamallay hills, Bi'ddome. 

 Leaves 6-14 in.; leaflets 3-6 by 1^-2^ in.; petiolule &- in. Fruit (immature?) 

 in. long. 



{: Leaflets 3-13 opposite or suhopposite. 



4. A. cucullata, Roxl.Cr.Pl. iii. 54, t. 258; subgl ah rons, leaflets 3-1 3 

 opposite or subopposito obliquely ovate-oblong obtuse at both ends 

 glabrous shiningfirm terminal one often hooded at the apex, male panicles 

 drooping about as long as the leaves with numerous diverging branches 

 sparingly lepidote, female racemes few-flowered, calyx 3-lobed, petals 3, 

 anthers 6 (-8), ovary 3-celled, cells i-ovuled, fruit subglobose 3-lobed 

 3-celled 3-valved. Dolt. <( (,'if*. limnl,. Ft. 37: Dniry hl. Fl. i. If 54. 

 Andersonia cucullata, //'/.'/'. //o/7. y///^/. s; ; Fl. I ml. ii. -l\-l. Spluer- 

 Eohituka, WU. Cat. 127s, '.r/. x////. S. ? laxa, Wall. C<tf. 4^)4. S. pani- 

 culata, Wall+JIcrl*. <.r J//y. Aim. Mus. Ln<j<l.-Bat. iv. 37. '? Amoora auri- 

 culata, Miq. file Miq. l.c. 



LOWER BENGAL, in the Sunderbunds, and in NIPAL, WaUich; King's Island in the 

 ANDAMAN'S, ./// //Jr. 



A tree of considerable size and slow growth with cinereous bark and smooth branches. 

 Leaves 6-16 in. ; leaflets 3-7^ by l^-2 in. ; petiolule |-f in. or terminal one longer. 

 MALE fl. in. yellow. Bracts caducous, 2 at the base of the calyx. Staminal >nhr 

 turbinate or subglobose. Ctf/>ule 24 in. diam. Seeds three-quarters covered with a 

 fleshy bright orange-coloured aril. 



5. A. lanceolata, Hiern; subglabrous, leaflets about 17 opposite or 

 subopposite approximated lanceolate obtusely acuminate glabrous shining, 

 base obtuse lateral veins inconspicuous, male panicles nearly equalling the 

 leaves, flowers 3-merous shortly pedicelled, calyx trifid, anthers 6 just 

 included, ovary in the male flowers rudimentary. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Shoots angular at the apex, leafy and with numerous axillary panicles. Leaves 6- 

 10 in. ; leaflets 2-3 by |-| in. ; petiolule -5- in. Flowers very small. Staminal tube 

 globosely cup-shaped, 6-lobed ; lobes ovate, obtuse, minutely apiculate. Anthers mi- 

 nutely and very sparingly pilose. Stigmas 3, sessile, linear-trigonous, glabrous. 



