270 FLORA OF MADRAS. {Moringa. 



A graceful tree with corky grey bark and soft white wood. 

 The root has the flavour of horse-radish and the seeds 

 are eaten in curries, and give a valuable oil. Yern. Hind. 

 Sohajna ; Ur. Mnnigha ; Tarn. Moringa ; Tel. Miinga. 

 2. MORINGA CONCANENSIS, Nimmo ; F. B. I. ii. 45 ; Hook. Ic. 

 t. 2596. 



N. Circars and Deccan, from Yizagapatam to Guntur, 

 Knrnool and Coinibatore. 



A tree with thick corky bark and white soft wood. Yern, 

 Tel. Konda inunga ; Tarn. Kattu moringa. 



II. CALYCIFLORAE. 



Sepals herbaceous, partially or completely connate in a tube 

 adnate to or enclosing the ovary, persistent or with the upper 

 portion deciduous, rarely free. Disk adnate to the calyx-tube 

 and free from the ovary, or adnate both to ovary and calyx-tube, 

 bearing the stamens on its apex ; rarely epigynons and within the 

 stamens. Petals as many as the sepals or sometimes fewer by 

 suppression, inserted at the apex of the calyx-tube or on the disk 

 lining the calyx, sometimes absent. Stamens variously definite 

 or indefinite, inserted on the margin or inner face of the disk, 

 rarely outside the epigynous disk. Carpels free or connate, 

 usually inferior or enclosed in the calyx-tube. 



Family LIY. CONNARACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate, 1-3-folio- 

 late or imparipinnate ; leaflets entire ; stipules 0. Flowers usually 

 hermaphrodite, regular or somewhat irregular, in racemes .or 

 panicles. Calyx usually 5-lobed, generally persistent ; lobes 

 imbricate or valvate. Petals 5, free or slightly connate below, 

 imbricate or rarely valvate. Disk small or none, annular oiv 

 imperfect. Stamens 5 or 10, perigynous or hypogynous, some- 

 times decimate, those opposite the petals usually shorter ; fila- 

 ments filiform, often connate below : anthers short, didymous. 

 Carpels 5, rarely fewer or more, 1-celled ; styles subulate or 

 filiform ; stigmas capitellate, simple or 2-lobed ; ovules 2, col- 

 lateral, ascending, orthotropous. Fruit of 1-, rarely 2- or more, 

 sessile or stalked, 1- rarely 2-seeded follicles, dehiscing ventrally. 



