Heynea.-] MELIACEAE. 183 



usually notched ; anthers terminal or inserted in the notches of 

 the filaments. Disk usually annular, fleshy. Ovary short, 

 2-3-celled, sunk in the disk ; style short, obconic ; stigma turbi- 

 nate-capitate, 2-3-toothed at apex ; ovules in each cell 2, collateral. 

 Fruit an indehiscent tomentose berry, 1- rarely 2-celled, 1-2-seeded. 

 Seed enclosed in a fleshy arillus ; albumen ; cotyledons thick, 

 fleshy, plano-convex ; radicle superior. 



WALSURA PISCIDIA, Roxb.; F. B. I. i. 564; W. & A. 120. 

 W. ternata, Roxb. ; F. B. I. i, 563 ; W. & A. 120. 

 N. Circars and Carnatic, in dry evergreen forests, especially near 

 the coast, as at Vizagapatam, Striharikota in Nellore, Pulicat, 

 and in S. Arcot ; Hills of the Deccan, in Cuddapah and Ching- 

 leput ; W. Ghiits, in the Anamalais, Pulneys and Travancore. 

 A moderate -sized tree with trifoliolate leaves, corymbosely 

 panicled flowers, ovoid fruit, '5 in. long, with a white aril 

 and hard dark red black- streaked wood. Vern. Tel. Walursi; 

 Tarn. Walsura ; Mai. Per ilia piccha. 



12. Heynea, Roxb. 



Trees or rarely shrubs. Leaves iniparipinnate ; leaflets 5-11, 

 opposite, petiolulate, entire. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in 

 long-peduncled terminal and axillary panicles. Calyx short, 

 4-5-lobed, lobes imbricate. Petals 4-5, free, oblong, suberect, 

 subimbricate. Stamens 8-10 ; filaments connate more or less in 

 a tube, linear, 2-toothed at apex ; anthers ovate, attached between 

 the teeth, mucronate. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary sunk in the 

 disk, 2-3-celled ; style slightly obconic ; stigma 2-3-toothed with 

 a thickened base; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, pendulous. 

 Fruit a 1-celled, 2-valved capsule. Seeds surrounded by a fleshy 

 white aril ; testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons hemi- 

 spheric, plano-convex ; radicle superior. 



HEYNEA TRIJUGA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. i. 565. H. affinis, Juss. ; 

 W. & A. 121 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 134. 



E. Ghats, in the forests of Godavari and Vizagapatam, to 



4,500 ft. ; W. Ghats, common from Mysore through Nilgiris 



and Anamalais to Travancore, up to 6,000 ft. 



A small pretty tree with pinnate long-petiolulate leaves, 



corymbose panicles of small flowers and white arillate seeds. 



Wood grey, moderately hard. Vern. Kan. Kora ; Mai. 



Korakadi. 



