CHUKRASIA , MELIACEÆ (AUCTORE C. DE CAND.). 121 
fasc. 1, p. 185, S. villosa Wall. list, Plagiotaxis chickrassia Wall. 
list. Chukrassi incolarum. 
Arbor, ramulis atro-rubescentibus, pallido-lenticellosis, glabris. Folia 
3 dec. longa ; foliola firmula; superiora circiter 12 cent. longa, 42 mill. 
lata, inferiora gradatim minora ; nervis secundariis alternis, patulo-ad- 
scendentibus, utrinque circiter 12. Rhachis cum petiolo 4 ! / cent. longo 
teres, hirtella. Paniculæ pedunculus ad 6 cent. longus, rami inferiores 
ad 6 cent. longi, bracteæ lineari-laciniosæ. Alabastra oblonga. Florum 
pedicelli ad 5 mill. longi. Petala circiter 12 mill. longa, membranacea, 
obovato-laciniosa, obtusa. Tubi denticuli obtusi. Antheræ ellipticæ, 
glabræ, 1 mill. paullo excedentes. 
In horto Calcutt. culta (Wall. n. 1269 in herb. DC.) ; in Malabar et 
Concan spontanea (Hook. et Thoms. in herb. DC., Kew., etc.). 
B, Malaccana; foliolis basi inæquali acutis. 
In Malacca. (Maingay, n. 3367, in herb. Kew.). 
2. €. velutina (Rom. Syn. fasc. 1, p. 135); foliis modice petio- 
latis, abrupto-pinnatis, 8-10-jugis ; foliolis alternis, petiolulatis, sub- 
oblique ovatis, basi inæquali in latere superiore rotundatis, inferiore 
acutis, apice longiuscule acute cuspidatis, utrinque tomentoso-pubes : 
centibus ; paniculis terminalibus, fulvescenti-tomentosis, folii dimi- 
dium vix æquantibus, breviter ramosis ; ramis pedunculatis, breviter 
ramulosis; floribus breviter pedicellatis ; calyce obtuse vel acuti- 
uscule 5-dentato, extus tomentello; petalis 5, extus puberulis; tubo 
ovato-cylindrieo, glabro, integro, margine 10-antherifero ; ovario sti- 
pite brevi glabro insidente, adpresse hirsuto, 3-4-loculari; capsula 
ovato-globosa, 3-4-loculari, — Kurz Prel. rep. p. 37. C. Nimmonii 
Graham in Wight. Ill. p. 148. C. Tabularis Hiern in Hook. Flor. 
Brit. Ind. pars 3, p. 568 (ex parte). Swietenia velutina Wall. list. 
Arbor, ramulis tomentellis. Folia 3 dec. longa ; foliola firma; supe- 
riora 71/, cent. longa, 3 !/, cent. lata, inferiora gradatim minora ; nervis 
secundariis alternis, patulo-adscendentibus, utrinque circiter 14. Rha- 
chis eum petiolo 5 cent. longo teres, tomentella. Paniculæ pedunculus 
circiter5 cent. longus, rami inferiores ad 1 dec. longi ; bracteæ lineari 
lanceolatze. Alabastra oblonga. Florum pedicelli 1 mill. paullo supe- 
rantes, Petala carnosula, obovato-laciniosa, obtusa, circiter 12 mill, 
longa. Antheræ ovato-acutæ, vix 1 mill. longe. Capsula 3 cent. longa. 
In Bombay et Concan (Hook. et Thoms. in herb. DC. et Kew.), 
Ceylon (Thwaites n. 2454 in herb. DC. etc.) ; India (Wall. n. 1270, 
in herb. DC.). 
B, macrocarpa; foliolis subtiliter puberulis subtusque ad axillas ner- 
vorum fasciculato-pilosis, capsulis ellipsoideis ad 45 mill. longis. 
In Sikhim (Treutler in herb. Kew.). 
Forsan species distincta. 
