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paler beneath, nerves 6—8 pairs, not looped; lowers axillary or in axils of fallen leaves 
along branches, solitary, or two more rarely three on same peduncle, 6 mm. across ; 
peduncles 1:5 em. long, slender, glabrous, pedicels 3 mm.; ca/jyz green, 5-fid, lobes acute 
petals 5, white, elliptic, subacute; stamens 10, filaments short, subulate; dise annular, 
10-lobed; ovary 5-celled with 5 short erect styles; ovules solitary, pendulous; drupes 
3 cm. long, 2 cm. in diam., oval, rounded at apex, yellow, edible; putamen 5-celled 
with 5 eyes at top. Roxb. Flor. Ind. ii. 453 (1832); Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 42 
(18767. S. acuminata Gamble, Trees. etc., in the Darjeeling Dist, Ed. 2. 25 (1896) not of 
Roxb. Cedrela Toona Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. TT (1881); іп part, not of Roxb. С, 
Toona var, 3. Lapshi Gamble, Trees, еѓг., in Darjeeling Dist. 17 (1878). Cedrela 
sp. Gamble, Trees, etc., in Darjeeling Dist, Ed. 2, 17 (1896). Poupartia axillaris Praga 
Mss, 
11181۸0۸۸۰: Nepal; Hamilton, fide Roxburgh, Sikkim; 1,000—3,000 ft.; Gamme! 
Manson ! King! Bootan, at Kalimpong, 4,500 ft.; Gamble 7323 1 Dumsong, 8—4,000 
№; Prain ! Каснік Hitts: Sima, Sadon, etc. ; Prain’s collector ! 
This has long been a puzzling tree. It was known to have been introduced 
from Nepal into the Calcutta Garden in 1802 by Dr. Buchanan-Hamilton under 
the Nepalese name ‘Neema,’ and though the description given in the Flora 
таша, ii. 453, is very brief, Roxburgh left an excellent drawing representing a tree 
very near Spondias in the structure of flower, fruit and embryo. Roxburgh calls it 
“а small beuutiful Afelia-looking tree," a description which the Nepalese name 
‘Neema,’ supplied by Buchanan-Hamilton, would suggest. Sir Joseph Hooker 
remarks on the fact that though Roxburgh describes the leaflets as ‘gash-serrate’ 
he figures them as obtusely serrate. In this we now know there is по real 
discrepancy; the leaflets of seedlings are deeply ‘gash-serrate’ and even іп a 4- 
years old plant they deserve to be so described; the leaflet shown on Plate 
25, fig. 3, shows what all the leaflets on such a plant in the Caleutta Gardens 
are like, while the leaflets shown on the same Plate, fig, 2, shows what all the 
leaflets were like on the tree that yielded the seed from which the plant whose 
leaflets were ‘gash-serrate’ was raisel. This change in type of leaflet has however 
probably had a good deal to do with the difficulty there has been in identifying 
Roxburgh’s Spondias axillaris in the field; collectors have expected to find a small 
tree looking very like a. ‘Nim’ (Melia), which is what it does look like while it js 
still young, When full grown, however, it is a lofty tree that looks very like a 
“Тіп” (Cedrela) anl, as has been shown by Gamble (Trees, Shrubs, etc., of the 
Darjeeling District, p. 17), is often taken for a variety or perhaps distinct species 
of 14" 
There have been long known to be one or more trees, very like Tún in 
appearance and qualities, passing under the name Zabshi or Lapshi in the Sikkim 
Himalaya, whose botanical identity was highly doubtful. Of one of these which 
he terms Labshi, Gamble has distributed specimens to various herbaria (бае р 
2412) under the tentative name “ Melia composita Willd”, а species to which سن‎ 
certainly cannot be referred because the leaves, though twice pinnate, have not ot 
the secondary rachises opposed in pairs; moreover all tho leaflets aro alind 
It bas а red wood with the appearance and odour of Tún and has ee pras 
fruit, characters that it shares with Spondias azillaris, but the foliage makaj ¿a 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Gaz». 0۸٥۵, Vor. IX, 
