Fraxinus.] Li. OLEINE^E. 305 



gent branches, forming a rounded crown. Generally a large shrub, 10-15 ft. 

 high. Bark j-^ in. thick, cinereous or brown, scabrous with light-coloured 

 specks, smooth while young, with shallow wrinkles, dark and much cracked 

 when old, resembling the bark of Reptonia buxifolia. Wood light brown, with 

 a few white specks, heavy, hard, close-grained, strong, polishes well. Used for 

 tool-handles, yields excellent fuel. The leaves are valued as fodder for sheep 

 and goats, and the tree is much lopped. 



2. SCHREBERA, Eoxb. 



Deciduous trees, with imparipinnate leaves ; flowers in terminal 

 trichotomous, corymbose, compound cymes. Calyx campanulate, with 5 

 unequal teeth, often splitting into 2 lips. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube 

 longer than calyx, limb spreading, 5-7-lobed, the lobes imbricate in bud. 

 Stamens 2, inserted in the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate-oblong, cells par- 

 allel, contiguous. Ovary 2 -celled, 4 ovules in each cell; stigma bifid. 

 Fruit a large pear-shaped 2-valved capsule, thick, woody, dehiscing locu- 

 licidally, the valves septiferous. Seeds 8, pendulous from the top of the 

 cell, ending below in a long, lanceolate wing j testa smooth, with a thick, 

 spongy inner coating ; albumen 0, radicle short, superior, cotyledons 

 oblong, fleshy, longitudinally plaited. 



1. S. swietenioides, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 101 ; El. Ind. i. 109; Wight 

 111. t. 162. Yern. Moka, mokha, goki, ghaut, gautha (Thitsoayledu, 

 Burm.) 



A moderate-sized tree, with grey branchlets and deciduous pubescent 

 leaves, sometimes glabrate afterwards. Leaflets 3 or 4 pair, ovate, entire, 

 sometimes ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, base often unequal-sided, 

 blade 2-4 in. long, the lateral leaflets short petiolulate, the terminal on a 

 petiolule half the length of blade; main lateral nerves 6-8 pair, with 

 shorter intermediate ones. Flowers fragrant at night. Cymes regularly 

 trichotomous, 3-6 in. long, and equally broad, ramifications and linear 

 bracts pubescent. Calyx pubescent. Corolla J in. long, white and brown, 

 fragrant, the inside of lobes with elevated brown glandular dots. Cap- 

 sule pendulous, rough with white elevated specks, 2 in. long. 



Found here and there, common in places, but not gregarious, in South and Cen- 

 tral India, and in Burma. In Western India I found it in Banswara, and in the 

 Bassi forests of Meywar, N.E. of Chittor. Said to grow in Sindh, on the hills 

 west of the Indus (Graham, Bombay Cat. 112). In the sub-Himalayan tract only 

 known from the south-east corner of Kamaon. Bare for several months, the 

 new leaves come out April- May ; fl. Feb.-April. 



A middle-sized tree, attaining 40 ft., but generally smaller. Trunk erect, 

 straight, 4-5 ft. girth, with numerous branches. Bark' ash-coloured, scabrous. 

 Heartwood yellowish grey, close-grained, hard, 50 lb. per cub. ft., seasons 

 well, without warping and splitting, works freely and is durable. Used for the 

 beams of weavers' looms, for making combs, and in turning. Has some of the 

 qualities of boxwood. 



A second species is described by S. Kurz in Flora, 1872, p. 398, as S. pubescens 

 from Jubbulpore, with subsessile leaflets. I have not seen specimens, and the 

 matter requires farther inquiry on the spot. 



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