Walsura.} xxxvu. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) 563 



12. WALSURA, Roxb. 



Trees. Leaves 1-5-foliolate ; leaflets opposite, quite entire, pale beneath. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal ; flowers small hermaphrodite. Calyx short, 

 5-fid or -partite, imbricated. Petals 5, ovate-oblong, spreading, slightly 

 imbricated or subvalvate. Filaments 10 or 8, linear or subulate, free or 

 connate in a tube ; anthers terminal or inserted in the notch at the apex of 

 the filament. Disk usually annular, fleshy. Ovary short, 2-3-celled, im- 

 bedded in the disk, style rather short ; stigma turbinate-capitate, 2-3- 

 dentate ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit baccate, shortly tomentose, inde- 

 hiscent, 1- rarely 2-celled and -seeded ; seed inclosed in a fleshy aril, exal- 

 buminous. DISTRIB. Genus of about 10 species limited to India and the 

 Indian Archipelago. Occasionally, according to Kurz, the petals are in- 

 creased to 8 and the stamens to 15. 



Imperfect specimens from Silhet (Wallick, n. 8113), with short spicate inflorescence 

 and with trifoliolate leaflets, the terminal one on a long petiolule, appear to differ from 

 the known species of the genus. W. trichostemon, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lwjd.- 

 at. iv. 60, from Siam, is said to differ from the undermentioned by its pilose anthers ; 

 Mr. Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xxxix. ii. 72 (1870) unites it with W. villosa, Wall. 



SECT. I. Euwalsura. Filaments linear. 

 * Leaflets solitary. 



1. W. Gardner!, Thwaites Enum. 61 ; leaflet solitary elliptic-oblong 

 obtusely acuminate glabrous whitish beneath, base obtusely narrowed, 

 petiolule short articulated to the longer petiole, filaments free hairy apex 

 bifid, anthers between the teeth of the filaments, fruit obovoid ellipsoidal 

 apiculate base narrow. Bedd. Anal. Gen. Ivi. 



CEYLON ; in the Central province, alt. 2-4000 ft. 



A small tree of 10-12 ft. Leaflets 3-5 by 1^-2 4 in.; petioliile &- in - Petiole 

 J-f in. Petals somewhat imbricated. Fruit 1 in. long, covered with a short tomentum. 



** Leaflets 3-5. 



t Filaments connate half way or more. 



2. W. tubulata, Hiern; leaflets 3 ovate- or elliptic-oblong obtusely 

 acuminate shining above glaucous beneath quite glabrous, base somewhat 

 narrowed, panicles scarcely equalling the leaves, calyx partite, staminal 

 tube glabrous outside thinly pubescent inside equally 10-lobed at apex, 

 lobes bifid receiving the apiculate anthers within the notches. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA and KHASIA MTS., Herb. Griffith. 



Shoots and petioles rough with lenticular specks. Leaves 8-15 in. ; leaflets 3-9 by 

 1^-3 in. ; petiolules -f in., or the terminal ones longer. Flowers % in. long. 



3. W. ternata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 90; Fl. Ind. ii. 389 ; leaflets 3 lanceo- 

 late-oblong or oblong obtuse glabrous and shining whitish beneath obtuse 

 at base, axillary panicles shorter than the leaves, flowers milk-white, calyx 

 partite, staminal tube thinly pubescent on both sides 10-fid halfway, free 

 portion of filament alternately notched and shorter, anthers apiculate. 

 Bedd. Anal. Gen. Ivi. Cfr. Xylocarpus? Antila, Hb. Ham.; Wall. 

 Cat. 4893. 



The PANJAB, at Sheikpura ; WESTERN PENINSULA ; in the Godavery forests and in 

 the hilly districts of the Northern division of the Madras Presidency, Bedd-nnc. 



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