Melia Azedarach, -Persian Lilac', a deciduous tree in general cull. Leaves 

 2-3 times pinnate. Flowers 12 mm. diam. ; petals white, staminal tube, 6 mm., 

 narrow, violet-purple ; anthers 10, alternating with paired tooth-processes of tube ; 

 Gynoecium 3-6 locular, 2 ovules in each loc; Fruit a small drupe with 5-seeded 

 bony sclerocarp, giving i -4 seedling?. 



' Carapa moluecensis (= Xylocarpiis), a limber-tree of the Sundribans and 

 Mangrove-formation, 30-50 ft., with pneumatophores ; evergreen, leaves pinnate, 

 panicles' of few small reduced flowers, tetramerous, with urceolate staminal tube and 

 8 teelh alternating with the anthers. Ovary 4-I0C., 2-8 ovules in each loc. ; fruit 

 3-5 in. diam., as a massive subspherical woody capsule, dehiscing by 4 valves, and 

 shedding large angular seeds (1-2 in.), which float or germinate immediately; 

 cotyledons store starch, germination hypogeal. 



Soymida febrifuga, a large deciduous tree of dry forest of S. India, &c. ; 

 leaves pinnate ; flowers small, greenish-white in terminal panicles ; staminal tube 

 lo-cleft, with 2 teeth on either side of the anthers. Ovary 5-locular; fruit a capsule, 

 1-2 in., dehiscing by 5 woody valves : seeds flat, winged at both ends. 



Chukrasia" tabularis, a large tree of moist hill-forest (Chittagong) : flowers 

 white, I in. long; staminal tube cylindrical with 10 anthers on the rim. Ovary 

 3-locular; fruit a capsule, li in., dehiscing by 3 woody valves; seeds broadly winged 

 at one end. 



Cedrela Toona (= Tooiia ciliafu) Toon-lree. a large deciduous tree of Sub- 

 Himalya and moist hill-forest, cult. ; Flowers small, white, in loosely panicled 

 systems ; there is no true staminal tube, but a receptacular extension as nectary- 

 pockels at the base of the flower (anlisep.), between orange lobes of the ' disc ' : 

 stamens 5 only (antisep.). Fruit a typical 5-valved capsule with many close-packed 

 seeds, -5 in. long, winged at both ends and spinning freely. Cf. C. scrrala, with 

 5 stamens and 5 siaminodes: C. odorata of W. Indies, seeds winged at dislal 

 end only. 



Ch'loroxylon Swietenia, Satinwood ; valuable timber-tree of Central and 

 S. India, distinguished from the preceding by absence of staminal tube,_ and with 

 gland-dotted leaves. Disc lo-lobed, intrastaminal; ovary 3-locular ; Fruit a typical 

 capsule dehiscing loculicidally by 3 valves as in Chtikrasia, with winged seeds. 

 With pinnate foliage, small 'flowers in panicles, generalized eucyclic flower and 

 capsular fiuit with winged seeds common to many Weliaceae, but now referred 

 to Ruiaceae. 



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