Afilaia.] MELIACEAE. 179 



girth, with pale green leaves and flowers in axillary 

 panicles. Bark grey with white warts. Wood yellowish or 

 light orange, hard and elastic, used in Cochin for oil-casks. 

 Vern. Mai. Veil a agil. 



8. Aglaia, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous stellately-pubescent or -lepidote. 

 Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets entire, opposite or subopposite ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, minute or small, globose, 

 in axillary branching panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, imbricate. Petals 

 5, free, concave, imbricate. Staminal tube urceolate or sub- 

 globose, entire or more or less 5 -toothed at the apex ; anthers 

 usually 5, erect, included or partly exserted. Disk or incon- 

 spicuous. Ovary ovoid, 1-2- rarely 3- celled ; style very short ; 

 stigma simple or lobed ; ovules 1-2 in each cell. Fruit a 

 1-2-celled and -seeded berry with a coriaceous pericarp. Seeds 

 with a fleshy aril-like testa ; albumen ; cotyledons thick, super- 

 posed, enclosing the minute villous embryo (corculus). 



Stamens quite included in the tube ; leaflets with main nerves nearly at 

 right angles with the midrib : 



Leaflets 3-7, flowers in close panicles under 6 in. long : 



Leaflets usually more or less elliptic, sometimes lanceolate or ob- 

 lanceolate ; berry ovoid, not depressed ; branches of ? panicle spicate, 

 flowers sessile, of $ cymose, flowers shortly pedicelled ; staminal 

 tube usually somewhat contracted at base, stamens small, on the 



middle of the tube 1. Eoxburghiana. 



Leaflets usually lanceolate, sometimes elliptic ; berry depressed- 

 globose ; branches of panicle cymose, flowers pedicelled ; staminal 

 tube not contracted at base, stamens nearly as long as tube 



2. Barberi. 



Leaflets about 13 ; flowers in lax panicles up to about 15 in. long : 

 Leaflets lanceolate, black when dry, unequally acute at base ; flowers 

 glabrous, pedicelled, black when dry; calyx-lobes acute ...3. Maiae. 

 Leaflets lanceolate, olive-brown when dry, obtusely acute or even 

 rounded at base ; flowers lepidote, sessile, brown when dry ; calyx- 

 lobes obtuse, ciliate 4. canarensis. 



Stamens exsert from the tube : 



Leaflets 3-7, oblanceolate, densely scaly beneath with very prominent 

 oblique main nerves; flowers in close panicles under 6 in. long, 

 pedicels short 5. Bourdilloni. 



