Dysoxylum] XXIX. MELIACE.E 139 



glabrous, shallow-cupular indistinctly 5-dentate. petals linear, glabrous, staminal tube 

 glabrous, entire at month', anthers 10 glabrous, included, di-k tubular, longer than 

 ovary, filiate at mouth, fruit green when ripe, :-; in. diam., smooth, seeds glossy, scarlet. 



6. CHISOCHETON, Bl. : Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 550 (Schizochiton, Kurz, 



F. Fl. i. 215). 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. L. mostly paripinnate. petiole produced be- 

 yond the last pair, bearing abortive leaflets. Leaflets entire, opposite or nearly 

 opposite, more or less oblique. Fl. polygamous, as a rule in divaricately 

 branched, generally supra-axillary, panicles. Anthers linear. Disk generally 

 short and fleshy. Ovary 2— t-celled, ovules 1 iu each cell, style long, filiform. 

 Species 22, Indo-Malayan. 



1. C. paniculatus, Hiern. — Syn. Guarea paniculata, Roxb. ; ^Yight, Ic. 

 t. 146. Bauri phal, Nep. ; Dingari, Mechi. 



A large tree, younger leaves and inflorescence hairy. L. up to 3 ft. long, 

 leaflets 5-12 pair, 4-10 in. long, pale beneath. Panicles usually longer than 

 leaves. Fl. linear, ,',-j in. Capsule globose, 1-2 in. diam., orange-red. 

 Seeds 3-4, aril white, fleshy, with crenate margin. 



Sikkitn. Assam, Khasi hills. Tavoy, Fr. C. S. 



2. C. grandiflorus, Kurz, F. Fl. i. 216. 



Attains 60 ft. Common petiole and underside of leaves densely and softly 

 pubescent, leaflets 6-8 in. long, 4-6 pair, sometimes with an odd one. Fl. | in. 

 long, nearly sessile, silky-tomentose, panicles slender, on long peduncles. 

 Capsule yellow, pear-shaped, 3-valved and 3-lobed, lh in. long, pericarp thick 

 coriaceous, seeds enclosed in an orange-coloured arillus. 



Martabanant] Tenasserim, Andamans. Fr. March, April. 3. C. dysoxylifolius, Kurz : 

 Thoungyeen forests, entirely glabrous except the pubescent panicles, leaflets 5 7 pair, 

 1 in in. luiii.', -,•,-. n. |iniiiiiiii'nt beneath. Fl. .1 in. long, hexamerous, stamina! tube 

 densely hairy outside, 6-clefl at the summit, anthers alternating with the lobes. 4. 

 C. divergens, Blume (C. fragrans, Hiern); Malay Peninsula, reported by Wallich from 

 Burma, is nearly glabrous, leaHets 1- VI |iair. membranous. 2-i> in., H. \ in., polygamous, 

 fr. pear-shaped, minutely tomentose, Lj iu. diam., 2-celled, 5, C. costatus, Hiern i 

 Cachar, 6. unknown, hence the genus uncertain, leaflets 10-11, alternate, pale olive and 

 velvety beneath, 3ec. n. prominent, fr. 'J -3-lobed and celled, orange, 1 — 1 .". in. long. 



Munronia Wallichii, Wight .1/. neilgherrica, Wight 111. t. 5 I : Turin,, piniiata, Wall. 

 PI. As. Bar. t. L19); Sikkim to :s.ikhi ft.. Khasi hills, Nilgiris, a shrub with impari- 

 pinnate leaves, leaflets opposite, 8 1 pair, lanceolate, J 5 in., fl. 1— 1 J in. long, white or 

 pink, hairy outside, crowded at the ends of branches, stamina! tube with in anthers 

 alternating with subulate teeth. Oisk membranous, tubular, sheathing ovary and 

 base .if style. Ovary 5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Capsule 5-lobed, 



Irniiy. 



7. AZADIRACHTA, Adr. .fuss. : Trine-,, Handb. Ceylon i. 244. 



A. indica. A. .loss the onl\ series). Syn. Melia Azadirachta, Linn.; 

 Bedd, PI. Sylv. t. 11; M. indica, Brandis P, PI. 67. The tfeem or Margoza 

 tree. Vern. Nim, Hind. ; Tama, Taiiml.-n. Hunn. : ]'cjm, Tel. : <>U> -li,rn. Kan. 



A large glabrous evergreen tree, heartw I red, hard. Leaflets 7-9 pair, 



often alternate, obliquely falcate-lanceolate, serrate, tl Id one 



wanting. Fl. white, strongly honey-scented, pentamerous, in axillary panicles 

 shorter than leaf. Stamina! tube 10-dentate, anthers inserted within the tube 

 opposite its teeth. Drupe the size of an olive, yellow, afterwards purple, 

 kernel .an ilaginoits, 1 -eel led 1 -seeded. ci>t\ ledons plane-convex, flesh] . notched 

 ;i I base, albumen ' '. 



Wild in the drj regl f the Irawadi vallej from Prome upwards. Cultivated and 



naturalized throughout India, in the Punjab to the Jhelum, rare west o) the Sutlej. 

 PI. II. s. 



