Micromelum.] EUTACEAE. 153 



Wt. 111. i. t. 56 bis ; Bedd. Fl. t. 11. Swietenia Chloroxylon, 



Boxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 64. 



N. Circars (common and of large size) and Deccan in dry 



deciduous forests, less common in the Carnatic, usually on 



poor soil like laterite. Satin wood. 



A conspicuous and pretty tree with rough yellowish corky 



bark and yellow close-grained wood valuable for furniture and 



turnery. Vern. Hind. Bhera ; Ur. Bheru ; Tel. Billu ; Tarn. 



Purush. 



8. Glycosmis, Correa. 



Unarmed shrubs or small trees. Leaves 1-foliolate or impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets alternate. Flowers small, in axillary rarely 

 terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5-lobed ; lobes broad, imbricate. 

 Petals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 8-10, free, inserted round a disk ; 

 filaments flat ; anthers small, usually with an apical or dorsal 

 gland. Ovary seated on the disk, 2-5-celled ; style short, persis- 

 tent ; stigma capitate ; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a 

 dry or pulpy berry, 1-3-seeded. Seeds globose, usually depressed ; 

 testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons thick fleshy, hemi- 

 spheric ; embryo very small, villous. 



GLYCOSMIS COCHINCHINENSIS, Pierre. G. pentaphylla, Correa ; 



F. B. I. i. 499 ; W. & A. 93. G. arborea, DC. ; W. & A. 92. 



G. triplujlla, Wt. Ic. t. 167 ; W. & A. 93. Limonia, pentapliylla, 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 84. L. arbor ea, Eoxb. I.e. t. 85. 



In all Districts, common, especially as undergrowth of forests, 

 of mango groves, and of hedgerows near villages. 

 Usually a shrub, occasionally a small tree, very variable in 

 leaves, flowers and fruit. Leaves usually with 3-5 leaflets, 

 but 1 only not rare, the leaflets often are large, up to 9 in. 

 long, sometimes again they are quite small. Many varieties 

 exist, but all are more or less connected by intermediates. 

 Vern. Hind. Ban nimbu ; Tel. Gonji ; Tarn. Kula pannai ; 

 Mai. Panal. 



9. Micromelum, Blume. 



Unarmed trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate, 

 oblique. Flowers in large terminal corymbose panicles. Calyx 

 cupshaped, 3-5-lobed. Petals 5, free, thick, valvate or sub- 

 imbricate. Disk short, stipitiform. Stamens 10, free, inserted at 

 the base of the disk ; filaments linear-subulate, alternately shorter 



