142 XXIX. MELIACE2E [Amoora- 



tube at its base. Fruit globose, yellow when ripe, 1-1| in. diam., pericarp 

 coriaceous 3-valved. Seed one, oblong with a scarlet arillus. 



Subhiinalayan tract, from the Eapti river eastwards, in Sikkim to 6,000 ft., Assam, 

 Burma, Chota Nagpore, "Western Ghats and adjoining hill ranges, from the.Satara 

 district southwards. Fl. E. S. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 



2. A. cucullata, Roxb. Corom. PL t. 258. Vern. Amur, Latmi, Sun- 

 drib. ; Thitni, Burm. 



A glabrous, middle-sized, at times a large tree, heartwood red. Leaflets 

 2-4 pair, falcate, very oblique at the base, 3-5 in. long ; secondary nerves 

 indistinct. El. pedicellate, <J in panicles, rf in short few fid. supra-axillary 

 racemes. Anthers 6. Eruit globose, 2}, in. diam., pericarp leathery, 3-valved. 

 Seeds 3 with an orange-coloured arillus. 



Khasi hills, Sundriban, Burma. Fl. E. S. C. S. 3. A. Wallichii, King.— Syn. .4- 

 spectabilis, Fl. B. Ind. i. 561 ; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 221, Assam, Burma and Andamans, has 

 male and female flowers on the same panicles, 10 anthers, leaflets 5-6 pair, pale beneath. 

 4. A. canarana, Benth. et Hook., Western Ghats from the Konkan southwards. Leaflets 

 2-3 pair, sometimes alternate, calyx cup-shaped, 4-5-toothed, petals 3, sometimes 4, 

 anthers 6, at times 7. 



B. Leaflets alternate. 



5. A. Lawii, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 1. 133 (Biiramb, Mar.), evergreen forests on the west side of 

 the Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. Leaflets 3-5, fl. generally tetramerous, 

 ovary 3-celled. 6. A. chittagonga, Hiern, Bhutan, Upper Assam, Chittagong, Pegu. 

 Leaflets 3-7, calyx cup-shaped, 3-toothed, anthers 6, ovary 2-celled. King in As. Soc. 

 Beng. vol. 64 (1895) 51 states, that this is an Aglaia. 6. A. Manii, King MSS., South 

 Andaman. Leaflets 11-15, fertile fl. in long axillary panicles. 



11. AGLAIA, Lour. ; El. Brit. Ind. i. 554. 



Evergreen trees, leaves imparipinnate. El. polygamous, small, globose, 

 paniculate, as a rule pentamerous, petals imbricate, staminal tube more or less 

 globose, anthers usually 5, rarely more, included or half exserted. Disk in- 

 conspicuous, stigma sessile or nearly so. Er. indehiscent, 1-2-celled, seeds 1 

 or 2, testa often with a fleshy outer layer, resembling an arillus. Species 7, 

 Indo-Malayan region, China, Polynesia. 



A. Shoots and inflorescence scaly, adult leaves glabrous, leaflets 1-4 pair. 



1. A. odoratissima, Blume ; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 64 (1895)67. 

 Syn. A. Eoxburghiana, Miq. ; Bedd. El. Sylv. t. 130; Milnea Boxburghii, 

 Wight, Ic. t. 166. Vern. Yewa Aduga, Kan., Tel. ; Chokala, Tarn. 



A large tree (near the coast in Kanara a shrub), wood bright red, hard, very 

 tough, youngest shoots and inflorescence clothed with round peltate scales. 

 Leaflets glabrous, opposite, 1-3 pair, 2-5 in. long, pale beneath, naked part 

 of common petiole as long as the upper portion. Fr. buff-coloured, velvety, f in. 

 diam. Seeds ovoid, surrounded with a white thick slightly acid edible pulp, 

 embryo green. 



Western Peninsula, the northern limit Mount Aboo on the west and Midnapore on the 

 east side. Fl. E.S., C.S. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. 2. A. oligopnylla, 

 Miq. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. Leaflets 1-2 pair. Fr. globose, sup- 

 ported by the remains of persistent calyx. 3. A. fusoa, King. South Andaman. 

 Leaflets 2-3 pah-. Fl. tetramerous. 4. A. glaucescens, King. South Andaman. Leaflets 

 2-4 pair. Panicles as long as leaves. Fl. 4- or 5-merous. 5. A. Khasiana, Hiern. Khasi 

 hills. Leaflets 1-2 pair, panicles much shorter than leaves, ferrugineous. Fl. 

 Jp-J in. 6. A. Wallichii, Hiern. Silhet. Leaflets opposite 3-4 pair, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 i-A in. long. Fl. small in short panicles. 7. A. pamculata, Kurz, F. Fl. i. 219, Pegu 

 Toma. Leaflets alternate, 2 pair, 4-9 in. long. Fl. minute in ample rusty scaly tomen- 

 tose panicles. 



