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XXIX. MELIACE^ 



Walsura 



or terminal panicles. Calyx 5-fid, petals 5, ovate-oblong, spreading, slightly 

 imbricated or nearly valvate. Filaments 8 or 10, free or partly connate. 

 Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary 2-3-celled, embedded in the disk, ovules 2 

 collateral in each cell. Fr. a shortly tomentose berry, 1- rarely 2-seeded, 

 seed without albumen, enclosed in a fleshy arillus. Species 12, Indo-Malayan. 



1. W. piscidia, Roxb. ; Wight, 111. t. 55. Vern. Terra Valudu, Tel. ; 

 Valsura, Tam. 



A glabrous, generally middle-sized, at times a large tree, with ash-coloured 

 bark and hard reddish-brown wood, tough, made into combs. L. trifoliolate, 

 leaflets 2-3 in. long. Filaments broad, flat, hairy inside, slightly connate 



Fig. 65. — Walsura piscidia, Host). Fr. fl. £. 



at base. Fr. ovoid, bright-yellow. Seed 1, completely enveloped in a white 

 juicy arillus. 



Western Peninsula, on both sides, south of the Godavery river. Fl. November, 

 December. Ceylon. W. ternata, Boxb. Northern Circars and Godavery forests. A 

 small tree, leaves trifoliolate, leaflets coriaceous, shining, whitish beneath, lanceolate, 

 fl. milk-white, in axillary panicles shorter than leaves. 



3. W. villosa, Wall. ; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 223. Vern. Gyobo, Burm. 



A moderate-sized tree, leafless in the hot season, branchlets, petioles and 

 inflorescence densely pubescent. Leaflets 2 pair, 2-4 in. long, slightly pube- 

 scent beneath. Filaments flat, connate - 1 - of their length, hairy. 



Common in Lower and Upper Burma, often stunted in Eng forest on poor soil. Fl., 

 March, April. Cochinchina. 4. W. hypoleuca, Kurz (probably identical with W. oxy- 

 carpa, Kurz). Lower Burma and Andamans, leaflets 6-8 in., quite glabrous, filaments 

 only connate at base, is united with (3) by Pierre, Fl. For. Cochin, t. 354. 5. W. 

 Candollei, King. Andamans, leaflets 5, glabrous, pale beneath, 2—4 in., filaments connate 

 J of their length. 6. W. multijuga, King. Upper Burma (King), Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. Leaflets d-4 pair, coriaceous, glabrous, dull beneath, 2-5 in., sec. n. 



