Cedrela.} xxxvu. MELIACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) 569 



I.e. 73. C. australis, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 4, teste Benih. FL Austral, i. 387. 

 ? C. multijuga, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xli. ii. 297. Toona ciliata, 

 febrifuga, liexandra, serrata, and longifolia, Roem. Synops. i. 139, 140. 

 Humph. Herb. Amboin. iii. t. 39. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from the Indus eastward, ascending to 3000 ft. ; and through- 

 out the hilly districts of CENTRAL and SOUTHERN INDIA and BIRMA (absent in Ceylon!). 

 DISTRIH. Java, Australia. 



Leaves 1-3 ft., deciduous; leaflets 2-7 by f-3 in., sometimes glaucescent beneath. 

 Floivers fragrant, |-| in. long. Petals ciliate. Capsule about f-1 in. long, oblong. 

 Dr. Brandis distinguishes C. serrata fromC. Toona by several characters ; however, I do 

 not find any of them constant, except that in the few examples that show it the seeds 

 of the former have wings at the upper end only, while those of the latter have wings at 

 both ends ; it is common throughout the Himalaya, attaining an elevation of 8000 ft. 

 The flowers are used for dyeing : see Buchanan, Journey, i. 215, iii. 288. 



19. CHLOROXYLON, DC. 



A moderate-sized tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets obtuse, oblique, 

 entire. Panicles terminal and axillary, pubescent ; flowers small penta- 

 merous. Calyx deeply lobed. Petals spreading, unguiculate, imbricated in 

 bud. Stamens 10, inserted in the depressions of the disk, free ; filaments 

 filiform-subulate, the alternate ones rather longer ; anthers small, versatile. 

 Disk thick, 10-lobed, pubescent. Ovary pubescent, immersed in the disk ; 

 3-lobed, 3-celled ; cells about 8-ovuled ; style short, slender, glabrous, 

 stigma small, capitate. Capsule coriaceous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds compressed, exalbuminous ; margins angular, winged above ; coty- 

 ledons plano-convex. DISTKIB. One endemic species. 



1. C. Swietenia, DC. Prodr. i. 625 ; leaflets 20-40 opposite subopposite 

 or alternate glabrous pale and dotted on lower surface base very unequal 

 shortly petioluled, panicles scarcely as long as the leaves, pedicels longer 

 than the flowers, capsule glabrous oblong dark brown. W. & A. Prodr. i. 

 123; Wig/it III. i. t. 56 bis; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 32; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. 

 til; Brandis Fl. Sylvat. 74 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 39 ; Thwaites Enum. 

 61 ; Wall. Cat. 1268. Swietenia Chloroxylon, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 64 ; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 400. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan to the Nilghiris ; CEYLON. 



Young parts petioles and inflorescence covered with grey puberulence; heartwood 

 with a beautiful satin iusti'e and fragrant. Leaves 5-9 in. ; leaflets -1 ^ by -f in. 

 Mowers % in. wide when open. Capsule 1 in. long by 4 in. thick. Indian Satin- 

 wood. 



MELIACEA PENANGIANA, Wall. Cat. 4889, from Penang, consists of 3 unnameable 

 and apparently diverse species, one of which is probably a Canarium. 



MELIACEA RUGOSA, Wall. I.e. 4891, from Penang is probably not Meliaceous. 



ORDER XXXVIII. CHAILLETIACEJE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire ; stipules 2, deciduous. 

 Flowers small, unisexual or polygamous, in corymbose cymes ; peduncles 

 sometimes adnate to the petiole. Sepals 5, free or connate, sometimes 

 unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, free, subperigynous, equal or unequal, 

 notched or 2-fid, with often an inflexed lamina, which is adnate to the face 

 of the petal, usually open in aestivation. Stamens 5, subperigynous, all or 

 some only fertile, free or adnate to the corolla; anthers oblong, connective 



