Chukrasia.] MELIACEAE. 185 



6-12, large, thick, angular, pyramidal, convex on the back, 

 arranged radially from the remains of the axis outwards ; testa 

 hard ; albumen ; cotyledons superposed, often conferruminate ; 

 radicle dorsal at one corner. 



XYLOCARPUS OBOVATUS, A. Juss. X. Granatum, W. & A. 121, 

 not of Koen. Carapa moluccensis, Bedd. Fl. t. 136, not of 

 Lam. ; F. B. I. i. 567. 



Swamp forests of East Coast, in the deltas of the Kistna 

 (A. W. Lushington) and Coleroon (Wooldridge). 

 A moderate-sized evergreen tree with coriaceous leaves, grey 

 bark, and a valuable hard dark red wood. Vern. Hind 

 Pussur ; Tarn. Somunthiri. 



15. Soymida, A. Juss. 



Large trees. Leaves alternate, paripinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 entire or when young crenate-serrate, obtuse, unequal at base. 

 Flowers in large terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx saucer- 

 shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate. Petals 5, free, spreading, 

 obovate, unguiculate. Staminal tube short, cupshaped, 10- some- 

 times 8-cleft, the lobes again bifid ; anthers short, attached to the 

 cleft of the lobes by their backs. Dish flat. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 style short ; stigma thick, discoid, 5-angled ; ovules many in each 

 cell, biseriate, pendulous. Fruit a woody 5-celled, septifragally 

 5-valved capsule, the valves 2-larnellate, separating from the 

 thick 5-winged axis. Seeds numerous, flattened, winged at both 

 ends ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons foliaceous, 2-auricled at base ; 

 radicle short, superior. 



SOYMIDA FEBRIFUGA, Adr. Juss. ; F. B. I. i. 567 ; W. & A. 122 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 8. Sivietenia febrifitga, Koxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 17. 

 N. Circars, from Ganjam to the Godavari, in dry forests and on 

 laterite hills; forests of the Deccan from Kurnool to Mysore, 

 and the Hills of Chingleput. 



A large tree with greyish-green leaves, thick bluish-grey or 

 brown bitter bark and very hard dark red strong and hand- 

 some valuable wood. Vern. Hind. Rohan ; Ur. Sohan ; Tel. 

 Sumi ; Tarn. Shem ; Kan. Sonibi. 



16. Chukrasia, Adr. Juss. 



Lofty trees. Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate or bipinnate ; 

 leaflets alternate or subopposite, entire, unequal at base, acuminate, 



