568 xxxvu. MELIACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) [Chichmssia. 



contorted (as regarded from inside) erecto-patent. Stamiiml tube cylindric, 

 10-crenate ; anthers 10, erect, inserted within the crenatures, short. Disk 

 obsolete. Ovary shortly stipitate, 3-celled, cells each with numerous 

 biseriate ovules ; style stout, stigma capitate. Capsule 3-celled, septi- 

 cidally 3-valved, woody ; valves consisting of two plates, separating from 

 the 3-winged axis. Seeds numerous, flattish, winged below, exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons orbicular. DISTRIB. One endemic species. 



1. C. tabularis, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mm. xix. 251, t. 22, f. 27 ; leaflets 

 10-16 ovate more or less velvety especially beneath or nearly glabrous 

 base obtuse shortly petiolulate, panicles erect scarcely equalling the leaves, 

 flowers yellowish or red, fruit ellipsoidal. W. <(* A. PnuJr. \. 123; 

 Thwaites Enum. 61; Wi'iltt 111. i. t. 56; n>,l,l. Fl. Xt/lvat. t. 9; limit. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 32. Swietenia Chickrassia, Hoxb.Hvrt. Beng. :;:', ; Fl. ///. ii. 399. 

 Plagiotaxis Chickrassia, Wall. Cat. 1269. S. Sotrophola, //. lli,>. ex Wall. 

 Cat. Lc. p. 214. C. Nimmonii, (,'rah. ex Wiaht I.e. 148 ; Dalz. <( <;il*. Bomb. 

 Fl. 38. P. velutina, W<ill. Cat. 1270. C. trilocularis, Roemer /S// /<"/* 

 . i. 135. S. trilocularis, /,W>. c.c Buck. .lourn. i. 184 ; G. D<m <V> n. 



Syst. i. 688. C. velutina, Roemer I.e.; Kurz in ,l<n-,t. Axint. Soc. Benrj. 

 xtii. ii. 1873, 65. S. velutina and S. villosa, Wall. ex Kurz I.e. Ceuivhi; 

 spec. De Cawl. i ll>>. \V,<jl,t. ex Wall. Cat. 4s'.)2. ? Cedivla velutina, DC. 

 J'rwi,-. i. c^5. ] CedreU villosa, L'<ub. ll,-t. J' n<i. 18. IMelia tonu'iito.si, 

 Km--., i^p. Veg. Andam. ed. i. }. iv., not <>f Roxburgh, ( Toona velutina, 

 Moem. ,s;//Nf,/w. Monogr. i. 139. ] T. villosa, Koem. I.e. 140. 1 Cedrela odorata, 

 llort. Ktw. olim >, Roem. l.c., not Linn. 



WESTKHN I'KMN-II.N, trmu the Concan to Coorg ; MALACCA and CEYLON ; (?*Tippere 

 and the Andaman Islands). 



Leaves 12-18 in. ; l.-ailcts 2-5 by lj-2f in. Floivers about ^-| in. lon$r- Ovary 

 hairy. Stiyma about on the level of the anthers. Fruit nearly 2 in. lung. The Chit- 

 tagoug wood tree. 



18. CEDRELA, Linn. 



Tall trees with coloured wood. Zra/v.s pinnate; leaflets numerous, 

 opposite or subopposite, entire or serrate. 1 'a nicies terminal and sul ter- 

 minal oblong ; flowers white pentamerous. Calyx short, 5-cleft. y VA//X sub- 

 erect, oval, imbricated, free. ,S'/v////, /<.< 4-6, free, inserted at the top of the 

 disk, sometimes alternating with staminodes, filaments subulate ; anthers 

 widely oblong, versatile. Did- thick or raised, 4-U-lobt-d. Untry sessile on 

 the top of the disk, 5-celled ; cells alternate with the calyx-lobes, each with 

 8-12 biseriate pendulous ovules; style filiform, stigma discoid. O/^/A: 

 coriaceous, 5-celled, sepfcifragftlly 5-valved; valves consisting of two plates. 

 Seeds compressed, winged below or at both ends, with fleshy albumen; 

 cotyledons flat, subfoliaceous. DISTKIB. About 12 species, inhabiting 

 Tropical Asia, Australia, and America. 



1. C. Toqna, Roxb. ex Rotti. &\ Willd. in Gesell. Nat. Freunde. N. Sclir. iv. 

 198 (1803) ; llort. Beng. 18 ; Cor. PL iii. t. 238 ; FL Ind. i. 635 ; leaflet 

 obliquely ovate or lanceolate acutely acuminate glabrous shining entire or 

 serrate base obtuse petioluled, panicles drooping about as long as or exceed- 

 ing the leaves, pedicels short, stamens 5 occasionally 6 or alternating with 

 staminodes equalling the petals, capsule oblong. W. & A. Prodr. i. 124; 

 W'ujlit Ic. t. 161 ; Bedd. FL Sylvat. t. 10 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 38 ; 

 Brandis FL Sylv. 72, t. 14 ; Wall. Cat. 1272, 9041. C. febrifuga, Blume 

 Bijdr. 180. C. hexandra, Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey ii. 425 ; Cat. 

 1272. ? C. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 1273. C. serrata, Royle III. t. 25 ; Brandis 



