174 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Turraen. 



Seeds with wings ; leaves pinnate or sometimes bipinnate ; cells of 

 ovary with numerous ovules : 



Staminal-tube cupshaped ; disk conspicuous ; seeds albuminous, 



winged at both ends 15. Soymida. 



Staminal-tube urceolate ; disk annular ; seeds albuminous, winged 



at the upper end Swietenia. 



Staminal-tube cylindric ; disk ; seeds winged below only, exal- 



buminous 16. Ch ukrasia. 



Stamens distinct on a fleshy torus, sometimes with alternating 

 staminodes ; cells of ovary with 8-12 ovules ; seeds albuminous, 

 winged at both ends or only below 17. Cedrela. 



1. Turraea, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, entire or obtusely 

 lobed. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary clusters or short 

 racemes, bracteate. Calyx campanulate, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, 

 free, elongate, linear-spathulate. Disk annular or obsolete. 

 Staminal-tube cylindric, elongate, toothed at the apex ; anthers 

 8-10, short, inserted just within the mouth of the tube, alternating 

 with the teeth. Ova>ry 5- or more-celled ; style elongate, exsert ; 

 stigma urceolate or capitate ; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. 

 Fruit a 4- or more-celled capsule ; cells 1-2-seeded ; valves woody 

 or coriaceous, separating from the winged axis. Seeds oblong, 

 with a broad ventral hilum ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons foli- 

 aceous ; radicle superior. 



TURRAEA VILLOSA, Benn. ; F. B. I. i. 542 ; Wt. Ic. t. 1593. 



W. Ghats in the Anamalai Hills up to 4,000 ft. (Beddome, 

 Fischer) ; hills of Travancore (Wight), not common. 

 A large shrub with membranous ovate acuminate entire 

 leaves up to 4 in. long and large white fragrant flowers up to 

 2 in. long. 



2. Naregamia, W. & A. 



A small branching undershrub. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, 

 petiole winged. Flowers solitary or 2 together, axillary. Calyx 

 5-lobed, imbricate. Petals 5, free, elongate, linear-spathulate. 

 Disk annular. Staininal tube long, slender, cylindric below, 

 inflated near the top and sometimes cleft in two parts, obscurely 

 10-crenate at the mouth ; anthers 10, appendaged at the apex. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell, collateral, pendulous. Fruit an ovoid-globose capsule, 



