562 xxxvu. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) [Amoora. 



PENINSULA, from the Concan to Malabar. 

 A middling-sized tree; scales yellowish brown. Leaves 6-9 in. long; leaflets 3-5 

 by 1^-2 in., axils of lateral veins sometimes with hairy gland-like excrescences (galls?), 

 petiolules -^ in. Flowers T V-& in. long, white, rarely 5-merous. fruit 1 in. long, 

 abounding in white resinous juice. 



tttt Petals 5. Anthers 10. 



10. A. BTaing-ayi, llb-rn ; subglabrous, leaflets 3-4 elliptic obtusely 

 acuminate glabrous shining above alternate or subopposite base more or 

 less narrowed shortly petiolulate, panicles shorter than the leaves, flowers 

 pentamerous, calyx short cleft, anthers 10 included, ovary minutely hirsute 

 3-celled, stigmas 3 connate sessile. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Leaves numerous, 4-6 in. long; leaflets very minutely pellucid-punctat , 3-4.1 by 

 1-1 1 in. Flowers ^ in. long ; petals slightly adherent at their base to thu staminal 

 tube. 



11. A. decandra, Hicrn ; leaflets 7-13 opposite oblong acuminate 

 base somewhat cuneate or nearly roundrd Bubglabrescent, opposite sub- 

 membranous, sepals very short, anthers 10, ovary (3-) 5-celled cells 

 1-ovuled, fruit globose-obovoid o-furrowed umbilicate 5-celled and -seeded. 

 Aglaia? decandra, \Ynll. in //>.//,. /'/. /,/. /;</. C'"/v<//, ii. 427. Sphaero- 

 sacme fragrans, \\'nll. I.e. 42! ; \'"i'/t Ilm-f. Snhnrlt. (J<ikntt. \'.\:>. Lausium 



j.) W. A- A. r,;nl,\ i. 11!) ; frnth, ,i- llunk.f. (;, lt . 7V. i. 334. S. decandra, 



'all. Cat. 



NIPAL, W.iWch; Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., 7/6. Griffith, J.D.H.; MALAYAN I'IMN 

 SULA, Maingay. 



A large spreading tree with thick trunk. Lem;-* about \ ft. long; leaflets 1^-8 by 

 by |-2 in. ; prtilul.-s short. Mnl, ^n,ii<-l<^ ctjuallii]^ the leaves; flowers very fra- 

 grant, on slender pedicels. Petals 5. Fruit about L} iu. diameter, capsular. 



SECT. II. Style long. 



12. A. ? Championil, Bentk. d- Itnuk. f. Gen. PI. i. 335 ; leaflets 4-6 

 abruptly juiinate uppu^itc obovote-cnneate glabnnis and .shilling subcor- 

 iaceous without prominent m-rvt-s shortly ix'tiolulate a]u-x rounded, panicles 

 supra-axillary slightly puberulent about half the length of the i. 

 flowers pediculled tetramerous oblong, calyx short, ietals oblong very 

 slightly or scarcely imbricated in bud at length spreading or reflexed, apex 

 obtusely pointed, staminal tube widely tubular obtusely dentate bearing 

 inside near apex 8 equal short ^-celled anthers in one row, ovary glabrous 

 4-celled cells 1- (or 2- cf. flg. in 7/6. Kew^} ovuled, style columnar, nearly as 

 long as the staminal tube, stigma capitate, disk 0, fruit globose- pyriform 

 1-2-seeded, seeds exalbuininous with aril. Tli.tv<ii!t'* K,tmn. 409; ])l<l. 

 Anal. Gen. Iv. Dysoxylon Championii, Hook./. <L- Thorns, ex Thwaites, 61. 



CEYLON; Central province, up to 4000 ft. alt., T/nrriite*. 



A large tree, with leaves 4-7 in. long; leaflets 2-4 by :, ! -l^ in.; petiolul s J 

 Flowers yellowish, in. long. Fruit 1 in. long. Differs from the type of AUK i 

 the elongated style and by abruptly pinnate leaves. Perhaps a new genus. Mr. Kurz 

 (in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Deng, xxxix. ii. 72, 1870) declares it to be a species closely allied 

 to Carapa (Xylocarpus) camosula, Zoll. 



