Dichapetalum.] DICHAPETALACEAE. 187 



Often planted for ornament, or in avenues, or for its wood. 

 The Toon tree. 



A large and beautiful tree with pinnate leaves, lanceolate long 

 acuminate leaflets, a reddish-brown bark and even-grained 

 red soft scented wood, useful for building and furniture, cigar- 

 boxes, etc. Vern. Hind. Tun ; Ur. Mahalimbu ; Tain. San- 

 thana vembu, Thevatharam ; Mai. Mathagiri vernbu ; Kan. 

 Tundu. 



Var. latifolia, C. DC. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. iii. 365, with larger 

 and wider leaflets, rounded at the base but finally acute, the 

 margins often somewhat crenate. 



W. Ghats in the Nilgiris and Anainalais, at about 6,000 ft. 

 A large tree and a fairly well-marked variety. 



Swietenia Mahayoni, Linn., the Mahogany tree of the W. 

 Indies, is sometimes found in gardens and avenues, and has 

 been planted in some forest localities for its timber. 



Family XXXIX. DICHAPETALACEAE, Engler. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire ; 

 stipules 2, deciduous. Flowers small, unisexual or polygamous, 

 rarely hermaphrodite, in corymbose cymes ; peduncles sometimes 

 adnate to petiole. Sepals 5, free or connate, often unequal, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 5, free, subperigynous, notched or bifid, with often 

 an inflexed plate adnate to their faces. Stamens 5, subperigynous ; 

 filaments free or adnate to the petals ; anthers oblong, connective 

 often thickened behind, dehiscence longitudinal. Disk of 5 glands 

 or scales or a 5-glandular or -lobed cup. Ovary free, 2-3-celled ; 

 ovules in collateral pairs, pendulous from the apex of each cell, 

 anatropous. Fruit a pubescent drupe, oblong or compressed or 

 didymous ; epicarp sometimes dehiscent and disclosing the puta- 

 men ; putamen 1-3-celled, the cells 1-seeded. Seeds pendulous ; 

 testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons thick ; radicle small, 

 superior. 



Dichapetalum, Dup. Thouars. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers polygamo-monoecious. Sepals 5, 

 unequal, connate at the base. Petals 5, 2-fid. Stamens 5, slightly 

 adnate at base to the petals. Disk of 5 quadrate scales, placed 

 opposite the petals. Ovary 2-3-celled. Fruit a 1-2-celled, sub- 

 didymous drupe with 1-2-seeded stone, 



