Cava pa] 



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Seashore and Mangrove swamps along the western coast from the Konkan south- 

 wards, Sundxiban, Chittagong, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon. Fl. R. S. Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Fiji islands. 

 Africa, Australia. The 

 leaves of young plants are 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 

 2. C. moluccensis, Lamk. 

 | Xylocarpu* GrTanatum, 

 Willd., Pustur, Sund.). 

 Sundriban, Andamans, Ma- 

 lay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago. Tropical Africa. 

 Australia. A middle-sized 

 tree, 1. 4-10 in. long, leaf- 

 lets usually 2 sometimes 

 3 pair, thinly coriaceous, 

 ovate from a broad hast-. 

 acute. Panicles 3-5 in. 

 long, slender witb lax few- 

 flowered branches, rl. pink- 

 ish yellow. Fr. 3-5 in. 

 diam., 1-grooved, brown, 

 valves woody. Kurz de- 

 scribes the flower as 

 pentamerous. 



Beddomea differs from 

 Carapa by ]»'tals 1-6 

 bI rongly imbricate in bud, 

 anthers 5-6, cells narrow. 

 on a thick connective, 

 ovary hairy, 8-5-celled, 

 cells h it li ■_' ovules. 



I. B. indica, Book. f. 

 Western i Ihats from i loorg 



t i Co !»• I ' rin. A large 



shrub, young shoots lepi- 



dote, leaflets 3, 3-7 in. 



long, fruit 1 - 1 A in. long, 



rough wit li close set rusty 



scales. 2. B. simplicifolia, 



Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. L85, 



Western Ghats common, 



from South Kanara to 



Travancore. A small tree, leaflets solitary, 3-6 in. Ion 



pigeon's egg, acute at 1 h >t h '-lids, densely ru-t \ -to tit- >?-•-. 



Fiti. 6G. — Carapa obovata, Blume. .'. 



fruit oblong, size of a 



It). AMOORA. Etoxb.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 559. 



Evergreen trees, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets oblique. Fl. polygamous, 

 male II. usually paniculate, fertile fl. often racemose or spicate. Calyx 

 partite. Petals:; I in 2 species thick, concave, strongly imbricated. Stami- 

 na] tube oearl] globose, anthers 3-10, included, in one row. Disk incon- 

 spicuous. Ovary 3-celled, cells L-2-ovuled, stigma sessile. Capsule ;i-valve<l 

 or indehiscent, seeds l •';. enclosed in a fleshy arillus. — Species 25, Austra- 

 lian, the rest Indian and Malayan. 



A. Leaflets opposite. 



1. A. Rohituka, \V. & \.. Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 132. Vern. Sohaga, Oudh; 

 Bandriphal, Nep. ; Sikaroro, Kol; Thitni, Burm. 



A middle-sized tree, with a heavy crown, in Burma attains 60 ft., wood pale 

 red, youngest shoots puliescent. I .pallets ."> 7 pair, ■'•-'■' in. long, secondary 

 nerves prominent beneath, L0-16 pair. PI. sessile, <J in panicled spikes. 

 $ in solitary spikes much shorter than leaves. Anther.- 6, attached to the 



