Carapa.\ xxxvu. MELIACE^}. (W. P. Hiern.) ft (I? 



dissepiments. Seeds large, thick, angular -testa hard, spongy, aril 0. hilum 

 large, ventral ; cotyledons amygdaloid. UISTRIB. A genus of scarcely more 

 than 2 species, one Tropical American, the other from Tropical Asia, both 

 however occurring in Tropical Africa on the west and east coast re- 

 spectively. 



The character of the genus given above is based on the latter species ; it constitutes 

 Kcenig's genus Xylocarpus. 



1. C. moluccensis, Lam. Encyl. Meth. i. 621 leaflets from ovate to 

 obovate usually obtuse very shortly petiolulate, panicles lax shorter than the 

 leaves sometimes in simple racemes. Bedd. Flor. Sylv. t. 136 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1274. C. indica, Juss. in Diet. Sc. Nat. vii. 32. C. obovata, BlumeBijdr. 

 179. Xylocarpus Granatum, Koen. Naturf. xx. 2 ; Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. 

 xix. t. 20, f. 22. X. obovatus, Adr. Juss. I.e. 244. X. moluccensis, Roem. 

 Synops. i. 124. Granatum littoreum, Rumph. Amb. iii. 92, t. 61. Monosoma 

 littorata, Griff. Notul. iv. 502. Cfr. Guarea oblongifolia, Griff. I.e. 503. 



Muddy seacoasts throughout India and Ceylon. DISTRIB. Tropical Africa, Malayan 

 Archipelago and N. Australia. 



Leaves 4-8 in. ; leaflets 2-5 by 1-2| in. Panicles 1-5 in. long; flowers -|- in. long, 

 yellowish. Fruit 3-4 in. diam. 



16. SOY1KXDA, Adr. Juss. 



A lofty glabrous tree. Leaves, paripinnate leaflets opposite, entire, 

 obtuse. Panicles axillary and terminal ; flowers greenish-white, pentame- 

 rous. Calyx composed of 5 short imbricated sepals. Petals free, imbri- 

 cated, obovate, unguiculate, spreading. Staminal tube short, cup-shaped, 

 10-cleft, lobes bidentate ; anthers 10, sessile between the teeth, short. Disk 

 flat. Ovary 5-celled ; cells alternate with the sepals, each with about 12 

 biseriate pendulous ovules ; style short, stigma broad, fleshy. Capsule 

 septifragally 5-valved, woody; valves consisting of two plates, separating 

 from the 5-winged axis. /Seeds numerous, flattish, winged at both ends, 

 albuminous ; cotyledons foliaceous. DISTRIB. One endemic species ; two 

 other species from East Tropical Africa have been conjecturally referred to 

 this genus. 



1. S. febrifug-a, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. xix. 251, t. 22, f. 26 ; leaflets 

 6-12 elliptic or oblong base usually oblique shortly petioluled, panicles 

 often equalling the leaves branches divaricate. W. & A. Prodr. i. 122; 

 Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 38 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 8 ; Forest Reports Madras. 

 1866-67, t. 2; Brandis FL Sylvat. 71. Swietenia febrifuga, Roxb. Mono- 

 grapliy; Cor. PI. i. t. 17 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 398 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 32; Wall. 

 Cat. 1267. S. Soymida, Duncan Tent. Inaug. de Sw. 8. (1794). S. rubra, 

 \_RoM.} Wall. Cat. 4890. 



Hilly districts of NORTH WESTERN CENTRAL and SOUTHERN INDIA, extending south- 

 ward to Travancor ; CEYLON. 



Yields a very hard dull red-coloured wood, one of the most durable. Leaves nearly 

 evergreen, 9-18 in. ; leaflets 1^-5 by | 2f in. ; petiolules mostly very short. Floiccr 

 about in. long ; bracts ovate-deltoid, small. Capsule smooth, black when ripe, 1-24 i* 1 - 

 long. Timber strong ; bark bitter. 



17. CHICK.RASSIA, Adr. Juss. 



A large timber tree with paripinnate leaves, alternate subopposite or 

 opposite acuminate oblique entire leaflets, terminal panicles and 4-5- 

 merous flowers. Calyx short, dentate. Petals oblong, free, sinistrorsely 



