160 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Atalantia. 



3. ATALANTIA CEYLANICA, Oliv. ; F. B. I. i. 512. 



W. Ghats in Wynaad, Malabar, Nilgiris, Anamalais and 



Travancore, up to 5,000 ft. 



A small thorny tree or branching shrub, not common. 



4. ATALANTIA MISSIONIS, Oliv. ; F. B. I. i. 513. Limonia mis- 

 sionis, Wt. Ic. t. 175 ; W. & A. 92. 



Deccan Hills in Chingleput, Cuddapah, etc. ; also E. slopes 

 of Nilgiris and Anamalais ; W. Coast, Quilon in Travancore. 

 A small very thorny Citrus-like tree with yellowish-white 

 hard wood. Vern. Tarn. Kuruntu. 



17. Feronia, Gaertn. 



A tree, armed with spines. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite, subsessile, entire ; petiole and rhachis winged or 

 not. Floivers polygamous, in terminal or lateral racemes or 

 panicles. Calyx small, flat, 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals 5, rarely 

 4 or 6, imbricate, spreading. DisTf short. Stamens 10-12, a few 

 sometimes imperfect, inserted round the disk ; filaments dilated 

 below, villous on face and margins, slender above ; anthers linear- 

 oblong. Ovary oblong, 5-6-celled, at length 1-celled ; style ; 

 stigma oblong, fusiform, deciduous ; ovules numerous, many- 

 seriate, crowded on the at length parietal placentas. Fruit a large, 

 globose, 1-celled, many-seeded berry with rough woody rind. 

 Seeds oblong, compressed, imbedded in pulp ; albumen ; coty- 

 ledons thick, fleshy. 



FERONIA ELEPHANTUM, Corr. ; F. B. I. i. 516 ; W. & A. 96 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 15 ; Roxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 141 ; Bedel. Fl. t. 121. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in dry open forests, often 



cultivated both there and on W. Coast. The Wood-apple. 



A small deciduous spiny tree with yellowish-white hard wood. 



The pulp of the fruit is much eaten. Vern. Hind. Kat-bel ; 



Ur. Koito; Tel. Velaga ; Tarn., Mai Vila, Vilatti ; Kan. 



Bilwar. 



18. Aegle, Corr. 



Trees, armed with spines. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 membranous, subcrenulate, glabrous or pubescent, Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, rather large, white, in axillary panicles. Calyx small, 

 4-5-lobed, deciduous. Petals 4-5, oblong, imbricate, spreading. 

 Disk inconspicuous. Stamens numerous (30-60) inserted round the 

 disk ; filaments subulate ; anthers elongate, erect. Ovary ovoid, 



