182 FLOE A OF MADRAS. [Amoora. 



A moderate -sized evergreen tree with a red useful hard 

 wood, little used. Vern. Hind. Harin-hara ; Mai. Chem- 

 maram. 



2. AMOORA LAWII, Bedd. Fl. t. 133 ; F. B. I. i. 561. 



W. Ghats, in Malabar (Wight), Tinnevelly (Brasier). 

 A moderate-sized tree, apparently scarce. 



3. AMOORA CANARANA, Hiern in F. B. I. i. 560. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalais (Beddome), Travancore Hills 

 in evergreen forests up to 3,500 ft. 

 A large evergreen tree. 



10. Lansium, Eumph. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets alternate or 

 opposite, shortly petiolulate, entire. Floivers polygarno-dioecious, 

 5-merous, the <? usually in panicles, the ? in spikes or racemes. 

 Calyx of 5 rounded imbricate sepals. Petals 5, concave, connivent, 

 imbricate. Disk inconspicuous. Staminal tube globose, crenu- 

 late ; anthers 10, usually in two rows, the lower included, the 

 upper partly exserted, sometimes apiculate, the attached filaments 

 prominent. Ovary globose, 3-5-celled ; style very short, thick ; 

 stigma 3-5-lobed, truncate ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, attached to 

 the axis. Fruit a 1-5-celled corky or fleshy berry. Seeds solitary 

 or 2, collateral, oblong, imbedded in a pulpy aril ; albumen ; 

 cotyledons transverse ; radicle superior. 



LANSIUM ANAMALLAYANUM, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 558; Bedd. Ic. t. 

 105, Fl. t. 131. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalais and the Hills of Malabar, 

 Travancore and Tinnevelly at 1,500 to 3,000 ft. 

 A handsome medium-sized tree of the evergreen forests, said 

 to have a pink, sweet-scented wood and edible fruit. Vern. 

 Tarn. Santhana viri ; Mai. Vandakamin. 



Lansium domesticum, Jack, the " Doekoe " tree of Java, is some- 

 times cultivated for its excellent fruit . 



11. Walsura, Koxb. 



Trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 1-5, usually opposite, 

 entire ; stipules 0. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary and 

 terminal panicles. Calyx small, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate. 

 Petals 5, oblong, slightly imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 8 or 

 10, linear or subulate, free or partly connate in a tube, the apex 



