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XXVI. SIMARUBACE.E 



[Ailanthus 



Vern. Arua, Rajputana ; Maharukh, Hind., Mar. ; Maha him, Uriya; Pedda 

 manu, Tel. ; Matti Pongilyam, Mai. 



Deciduous, bark grey, leaves tomentose, up to 3 ft. long, leaflets 8-14 pair, 



Fig. 61. — Ailanthus malabarica, DC. i. 



nearly opposite, from an unequal-sided base broadly falcate-lanceolate, deeply 

 serrate, often lobed. Panicles ample, shorter than leaves, fl. yellowish, petals 

 glabrous, filaments glabrous, shorter than anthers, ripe carpels 2 in. 



Indigenous in the Peninsula, commonly planted, throughput India, as far north as 



