172 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Cmiariinn. 



lobed. Stamens 6, rarely only 3, inserted outside the disk ; fila- 

 ments free or connate at the base ; anthers oblong-triangular, 

 dorsifixed, introrse. Ovary ovoid, in <? flowers reduced to a 

 pistillode, 2-3-celled ; style stout ; stigma capitate, 2-3-lobed. 

 Fruit an ovoid or ellipsoid, often trigonous drupe with a 

 1-3-celled, 1-3-seeded stone. Seed conform to the cell ; testa 

 membranous ; cotyledons contortuplicate, often divided. 



CANARIUM STRICTUM, Roxb. ; F. B. I. i. 534 ; W. & A. 175 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 128. 



W. Ghats, common in moist evergreen forests, up to about 

 5,000 ft. 



A very large, handsome tree with straight white cylindrical 

 stem. The large pinnate leaves when very young are bright 

 yellow turning velvety crimson, when older they are rusty 

 tomentose and at length subglabrous. The flowers are poly- 

 gamous and the stamens have the filaments combined in a 

 tube. The wood is soft and of little value. The tree gives 

 a black resin. Vern. Tain. Karapu kangiliam, Karang kun- 

 thrikam ; Mai. Kunthirikka payin, Thalli ; Kan. Manda dhup. 

 Canarium commune. Linn., is a large tree occasionally found 

 in cultivation. 



Family XXXYIII. MELIACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate ; usually pinnate, rarely 

 simple or bipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, generally 

 oblique at the base ; stipules 0. Floiuers regular, hermaphrodite 

 or polygamo-dioecious, in terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx 

 usually small, 3-6-lobed, rarely entire or with free sepals, usually 

 imbricate. Petals 3-6, free or rarely connate at the base, some- 

 times adnate below to the staminal-tube, valvate imbricate or con- 

 torted. Disk tubular or annular, free or adnate to the ovary or 

 obsolete. Stamens 4-12 ; filaments connate in a tube or rarely 

 free ; anthers erect, usually sessile on the tube, included or 

 exserted, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary usually free, 

 2-5 -celled ; style simple ; stigma disciform or capitate ; ovules 2, 

 rarely more, collateral or superposed, rarely solitary. Fruit 

 dehiscent or indehiscent, capsular baccate or drupaceous. Seeds 

 sometimes arillate, sometimes winged ; exalbuminous or with 

 fleshy albumen, embryo usually flat, cotyledons fleshy. 



