Walsura.] xxxvu. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) 505 



SECT. II. Surwala. Filaments subulate. 



8. W. robusta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 386 ; subglabrous, 

 shoots and petioles rough with scabrous specks, leaflets 5 sometimes 3 

 ovate or elliptic acuminate shining, panicles nearly as long as the leaves 

 dense puberulent, calyx partite, filaments equal free subulate pubescent 

 except apex, anthers terminal, ovary 2-celled, berry egg-shaped or sub- 

 globose. Wall. Cat. 1266, 8110, 8111, 8112. Surwala robusta, Roem. 

 Synops. i. 108. Monocyclis robusta, Wall, ex Voiyt Hort. Suburb. Cal- 

 cutt. 135. Scytalia glabra, Hb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 8048 E, not other letters. 



SILHET, Wallich; ASSAM, Hamilton; KHASIA MTS. and TENASSERIM, Griffith, &c. ; 

 ANDAMANS, Kurz under name of W. villosa in Rep. Andam. ed. 2, 33. 



A large timber tree. Leaves 6-12 in. ; leaflets 2-6 by 1-3 in. ; petiolules J~4 in. or 

 the terminal one longer. Flowers in. long, white. Staminal tube white ; anthers 

 yellow. Fruit 4~if in. long. 



13. HEVNEA, Koxb. 



_ Trees or rarely shrubs. Leaves 5-11-foliolate ; leaflets opposite, quite en- 

 tire. Panicles terminal and axillary, corymbose, long-peduncled ; fl >\vers 

 rather small, hermaphrodite. Calyx short, 4-5-fid, imbricated. Petals 

 4-5, oblong, suberect, somewhat imbricated. Staminal tube 8- or 10-fid ; 

 lobes linear, bidentate at apex, bearing the anthers between the linear 

 teeth. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary immersed in the disk, 2-3-celled, nar- 

 rowing into the short style ; stigma 2-3-dentate, with a thickened ring 

 at the base ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit capsular, 1-celled, 2-valved, 

 1-seeded, glabrous. Seed arillate, exalbuminous ; aril thin, white ; coty- 

 ledons hemispherical. DISTKIB. A genus of 1-3 species, limited to India 

 and the Indian Archipelago. 



1. H. trijug-a, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33 ; in Bot. Mag. t. 1738; Cor. PL iii. 

 56, t. 260 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 390 ; leaflets 5-11 ovate oblong or lanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous above, paler and glabrate or pubescent beneath usually 

 obtuse-based, panicles nearly equalling the leaves, calyx pubescent or sub- 

 glabrate 5-4-fid, petals 5-4 glabrous or puberulent, Staminal tube glabrous 

 or puberulent outside usually pubescent inside, filaments 10 or rarely 8 

 alternately rather shorter, capsule round. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 31 ; Adr. 

 Juss. in Mem. Mus. xix. t. 18, f. 17; Dalz. d- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 38; Wall. 

 Cat. 1258 ; Brandis Fl. Sylvat. 70. Leea laevis, Hb. Heyne ex Wall. I.e. 

 H. quiriquejuga, Roxb. Cat. 90; Fl. Ind. ii. 391 ; Wall. Cat. 1259. H. 

 affinis, Adr. Juss. I.e. 275 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 134 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 

 121. Walsura (Heynea) pubescens, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xli. 

 ii. 297. H. connaroides/ Wight ex Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 136 ; 

 Drury Ind. Fl. i. 166. Zanthoxylon ? connaroides, W. & A. Prodr. i. 148. 

 Zygophyllum? connaroides, W. & A. ex Wight Cat. n. 553. 



Forests of OUDH and the HIMALAYA, from Nipal toBhotan; KHASIA MTS., PEGU, 

 BENGAL, PENANG ; WESTERN PENINSULA from the Concan southwards. 



A tree sometimes attaining a large size. -Leaves 4-15 in. long; leaflets 2 -GA by 

 f-3 in. ; petiolnles J-f in. long or the terminal ones longer. Flowers white. Capsule* 

 ^-\ in. long. A specimen from Malacca in very young flower, gathered by the late 

 l)r. Maingay (Distrib. n. 346), with the leaflets of nearly the same colour on both sur- 

 faces, may belong to this species. Mr. Kurz, in Journ. Asiat. Beng. xxxix. ii. 72 (1870), 

 states that H. sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 505, from \V. Sumatra, is 

 identical with H. quinquejitga, Roxb. 



