Amoora.] MELIACEAE. 181 



6. AGLAIA MINUTIFLORA, Bedd. Ic. t. 193. A. minutiflora, var. 

 travancorica, Hiern in F. B. I. i. 557. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalai and Travancore Hills, from 

 1,500 to 3,000 ft., in the evergreen forests. 

 A slender tree with long leaves, large, very tomentose, long- 

 acuminate leaflets and minute flowers in large panicles. 

 The wood is reddish-pink and fragrant. Vern. Mai. Nir 

 mulei. 



Aglaia odorata, Lour., is a small pretty tree sometimes found 

 in Madras gardens. 



9. Amoora, Roxb. 



Trees, the young parts sometimes lepidote. Leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets oblique, entire. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, 

 small, cf paniculate, ? or in spikes or racemes. Calyx 3-5- 

 lobed. Petals 3-5, thick, concave, imbricate. Disk 0. Staminal- 

 tube subglobose or campanulate, slightly crenate at the mouth ; 

 anthers 6-10, included. Ovary short, 3-celled ; style or short ; 

 stigma pyramidal or disciform, usually vertically lobed ; ovules 1-2 

 in each cell, in <? flowers abortive or absent. Fruit a subglobose 

 coriaceous loculicidally 3-5-valved capsule. Seeds surrounded by 

 a fleshy aril, the hilum ventral ; testa coriaceous ; albumen ; 

 cotyledons superposed or conferruminate, enclosing the minute 

 villous embryo. 



Inflorescence as long as or nearly as long as the nearly glabrous leaves : 

 Petals 3 ; stamens 6-7 ; leaves large, up to 2 ft. long ; leaflets thick, 

 9-17, up to 9 in. long, 4 in. broad; <f flowers in panicles of spikes or 



racemes, 9 flowers in long spikes 1. Rohituka. 



Petals 4; stamens 8-10; leaves moderate-sized, up to 1 ft. long; 

 leaflets rather thin, 5, up to 7 in. long, 25 in. broad ; cf flowers in 

 panicles of racemes, ? flowers in short spikes 2. Lawii. 



Inflorescence much shorter than the lepidote leaves, up to 5 in. long ; 



leaves large, up to 15 in. long; leaflets thin, up to 7 in. long, 3 in. 



broad; flowers very small, petals 4, stamens 6-7 3. canarana. 



1. AMOORA KOHITUKA, W. & A. i. 119 ; F. B. I. i. 559 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. t. 132. 



W. Ghats, in all Districts from S. Canara to Tinnevelly, at 

 low elevations and up to 3, 500 ft. in moist forests, especially 

 common and usually with pedicellate male flowers in the 

 Anamalais. 



