186 FLORA OF MADRAS, [Chukrdsia. 



usually pubescent or even velvety. Flowers hermaphrodite, rather 

 large, in terminal panicles. Calyx short, 4-5-lobed, with obtuse 

 lobes. Petals 4-5, oblong, free, erect, contorted. Staminal tube 

 cylindric, with 8-10 short crenate lobes at the apex ; anthers erect, 

 inserted within the crenatures and entirely exsert above them. 

 DiskO. Ovary shortly stipitate, cylindric-ovoid. 3-5-celled; style 

 stout ; stigma cylindric-capitate ; ovules many in each cell, biseriate. 

 Fruit a 3-5-celled, septifragally 3-5-valved capsule, the valves 

 2-lamellate separating from the 3-winged axis and often cleft at 

 apex. Seeds many, flattened, broadly winged below ; albumen ; 

 cotyledons orbicular. 



CHUKRASIA TABULARIS, Adr. Juss. ; F. B. I. i. 568 (Chikrassia) ; 

 W. & A. 123 ; Wt. 111. t. 56 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 9. 



Hills of the Deccan up to 4,500 ft., Horsley Konda in Cudda- 



pah, Sandiir Hills of Bellary, Hills of Mysore and Salem ; 



W. Ghats, from Mysore to Tinnevelly in evergreen forests at 



rather low elevations. 



A very large and beautiful tree with a reddish-brown bark and 



yellowish-brown to reddish-brown wood resembling Mahogany. 



Vern. Hind. Chikrasi ; Tel. Madagari vembu ; Tarn. Aglay, 



Malei veppu ; Mar. Pabba. 



17. Cedrela, Linn. 



Tall trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets numerous, opposite 

 or subopposite, entire or serrate. Flowers hermaphrodite, small, 

 white, in terminal or subterminal panicles. Calyx short, 5-lobed. 

 Petals 5, oblong, suberect, free, imbricate. Stamens 4-6, free, 

 inserted on a 4-6-lobed raised disk, sometimes with alternating 

 staminodes ; filaments subulate ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary 

 sessile on the disk, 5-celled; style slender; stigma discoid; ovules 

 in each cell 8-12, biseriate, pendulous. Fruit a coriaceous septi- 

 fragally 5-valved capsule ; valves 2-lamellate. Seeds compressed, 

 winged below or at both ends ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat 

 subfoliaceous ; radicle superior. 



CEDRELA TOONA, Boxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 238 ; F. B. I. i. 568 ; W. & A. 

 124; Wt. Ic. t. 161 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 10; Brand. For. FL t. 14. 

 E. Ghats in valleys and moist forest localities, fairly common 

 in Ganjam, less so southwards ; Hills of the Deccan in Kur- 

 nool, Sandur and Mysore ; W. Ghats, common in evergreen 

 forests up to 4,000 ft., especially in the Nilgins and Anamalais, 



