152 FLORA OF MADRAS. [AcronycMa. 



lary or terminal cymes or corymbs. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes 

 imbricate. Petals 4, spreading, valvate. Disk thick, 8-angled, 

 tomentose. Stamens S, inserted under the disk, filaments sub- 

 .ulate, the alternate ones longer. Ovary 4-celled, inserted on the 

 hollowed top of the disk ; style terminal ; stigma 4-grooved ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a 4-celled drupe or 

 4-valved loculicidal capsule. Seeds 1-2 in each cell ; testa black ; 

 albumen copious ; embryo straight ; cotyledons oblong, flat. 



Branchlets rather stout, grey ; leaflet 3-9 in. long, thick ; flowers in 

 rather stout long-pedunculate corymbs, 3-6 in. long ; petals '2 in. long, 



the base inside with white retrorse hairs 1. laurifolia. 



Branchlets slender, reddish ; leaflet 1-3 in. long, thin ; flowers in slender 

 panicles of cymes under 1 in. long; petals under *2 in. long, nearly 

 glabrous within 2. Barber i. 



1. ACRONYCHIA LAURIFOLIA, Blume ; F. B. I. i. 498. Cyminoswa 

 pedunculata, DC. ; W. & A. 147 ; Wt. 111. i. t. 65. 



N. Circars in the Hills of Vizagapatam ; S. Deccan slopes 

 in Salem ; W. Ghats, common in hill forests up to 6,000 ft. 

 A small evergreen tree, drupes subglobose, apiculate. 

 Wood greyish-white, smooth. Vern. Tarn. Mutta nari ; 

 Mai. Vidu Kanalei. 



2. ACRONYCHIA BARBERI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1915, 345. A. 

 laurifolia var. 4 ; F. B. I. i. 498. 



Anamalai Hills of Coimbatore (Barber) ; Pulneys (Wight). 



7. Chloroxylon, DC. 



A deciduous tree. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets numerous, very 

 oblique, entire, gland-dotted. Floivers small, in terminal and 

 axillary pubescent panicles. Calyx short, 5-lobed. Petals 5, 

 clawed, imbricate. Disk thick, 10-lobed, pubescent. Stamens 

 10, free, inserted between the lobes of the disk. Ovary pubescent, 

 sunk in the disk, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; style short, slender, glabrous ; 

 stigma capitate ; ovules 8 in each cell. Fruit an oblong, 3-celled, 

 loculicidal capsule. Seeds about 4 in each cell, imbricate, com- 

 pressed, winged especially above, their margins angular, attached 

 to the edges of the septa ; albumen ; cotyledons fleshy, flattened ; 

 radicle short. 



CHLOROXYLON SWIETENIA, DC. ; F. B. I. i, 569 ; W. & A, 123 ; 



