Moringa.'] MORINGACEAE. 269 



W. Ghats, in the Hills of Mysore (Barber) ; Wynaad 

 (Beddome). 



A large tree with large conspicuous leaves. 

 5. HOLIGARNA BEDDOMEI, Hook. f. ; F. B. I. ii. 38. 



W. Ghats, in the Hills of Malabar, W. Nilgiris, Anamalain 



and Travancore, in moist forests up to 3,000 ft. 



A lofty tree (Beddome), with black juice. Bark smooth; 



wood light grey, soft and perishable. Vern. Tarn. Pal 



vidinyan. 



Family LIII. MORINGACEAE. 



Trees with soft white wood. Leaves deciduous, alternate, 

 2-3-pinnate, the pinnae and leaflets imparipimiate, opposite, 

 glandular at the base; stipules 0. Flowers large, irregular, 

 hermaphrodite, in axillary panicles. Culyx cup-shaped, 5-cleft, 

 the segments unequal, petaloid, imbricate. Petals 5, unequal, 

 the 2 upper small, the lowest largest. Disk lining the calyx- 

 tube. Stamens inserted on the margin of the disk, declinate, 

 5 perfect opposite the petals with 5-7 alternate sterile antherless ; 

 filaments free, thickened at base ; anthers 1 -celled, dorsifixed. 

 Ovary stipitate, 1-celled; style slender, tubular; stigma truncate, 

 perforated ; ovules many, bi seriate, on 3 parietal placentas. 

 Fruit an elongate, 1-celled, loculicidally 3-valved, beaked capsule, 

 corky and pitted within. Seeds many, in the pits of the valves ; 

 testa corky, winged or not, albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex ; 

 radicle very short, superior, plumule many-leaved. 



Moringa, Lamk. 

 Characters of the Family : 



Leaves usually 3-pinnate ; leaflets elliptic or obovate, rounded at 

 apex, '5-7 in. long, main nerves obscure ; flowers white ; seed wings 



short 1 . oleifera. 



Leaves usually 2-pinnate ; leaflets broadly elliptic or orbicular, 

 emarginate at apex, 1-1-5 in. long, main nerves distinct; flowers 

 yellow streaked with red ; seed wings elongate 2. concanensis. 



1. MORINGA OLEIFERA, Lamk. 37. pterygosperma, Gaertn. ; 

 F. B. I. ii. 45 ; W. & A. 178 ; Wt. 111. t. 77 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 80. 

 N. Circars, in Ganjani and Godavari, probably, elsewhere 

 cutivated near villages in the plains, wild in N. India. 

 The Horse-radish tree. 



