144 XXIX. MELIACE.E [Aglaia 



on lower surface rusty-tonientose, fl. very minute, depressed-globose, broader than long, 

 calyx half the length of petals. Fr. pyriform If in. long. 15. A. minutrflora, Bedd. 

 Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 193, Anamalai, Tinnevelli and Travancore Ghats, above 2,000 ft. 

 Leaflets 4-6 pair, lower surface densely rusty-tomentose, fl. globose, -^ in. diam., calyx, 

 £ the length of petals. 



Some of these 15 species will probably be united, when they are studied in the forests 

 and not from herbarium specimens only. 



12. LANSIUM, Rumphius; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 557. 



Differs from Aglaia by having 10 anthers in 2 rows, the shorter ones 

 included, the longer partly exserted. 



1. L. anamalayanum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 131. Vera. Santhana viri, Tarn. 

 Leaflets alternate, 3-5, 3-4^ in. long, obtusely acuminate. Fr. oblong, § in. 

 diam., 2-seeded, seeds covered with a fleshy integument. 



Evergreen forests of the "Western Ghats from Kanara southwards. PI. April, May. 

 2. L. decandrum, King 1. c. 51 (Amoora decandra, Hiern; Fl. B. Ind. i. 562), outer 

 Himalaya from Xepal eastwards, ascending in Sikkim to 6,000 ft., has o]3posite leaflets, 

 3-6 pair, fl. red, 4- or 5-merous, £ in ample panicles, $ in axillary spikes, fr. globose- 

 obovoid, 4-5-celled, 14 in. diam., with 4-5 seeds. 3. L. domesticum, Jack. Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. Cultivated on account of its fruit in tropical India. 

 Leaflets 5-9, alternate, coriaceous, broadly elliptic, spikes of bisexual fl. from the trunk 

 and larger branches, fr. 1-2 in. diam., seeds 2, embedded in much transparent pulp. 



13. SOYMIDA.. Adr. Juss. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 567. 

 One Indian species, and one or two from East Africa. 



S. febrifuga, Adr. Juss., the only species ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 8 ; Brandis 

 F. Fl. 71. — Syn. Stuietenia febrifuga, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 17. Vern. Rohan, 

 Hind. ; Sumi, Tel. ; Solum, Uriya ; Soymida, Palkonda hills ; Some-mara, 

 Sumbi, Kan. 



A large tree, trunk tall, straight, symmetrical, bark bitter, heartwood 

 distinct, bright red when fresh cut, dark reddish-brown when dry, very hard 

 and very durable. Leaves paripinnate. petiole with a thickened base, 

 leaflets opposite, 3-6 pair, 2-4 in. long. Secondary nerves 10-14 pair, alter- 

 nating with shorter intermediate ones, tertiary nerves prominently reticulate. 

 Fl. bisexual, pentamerous, greenish-white, in large terminal panicles, with 

 triangular bracts. Petals obovate, narrowed into a claw, contorted in bud. 

 Staminal tube cup-shaped, 10-cleft, each segment with 2 short fleshy teeth, 

 the anthers between them on a short filament. Capsule 1-2 in. long, 5-celled, 

 the 5 valves separating from the dissepiments, which remain attached to the 

 thick spongy axis. Seeds numerous in each cell, flat, imbricated, winged at 

 both ends. 



Western Peninsula and Central India, extending to the hills south of Mirzapur in 

 the east, and to Merwara in the west. Doubtful in Burma. The young foliage issues 

 in April and May, while part of the old leaves are still on the tree. Fl. April, May. 



Swietenia Mahagoni, Linn., the Mahogany tree of Central America and the West 

 Indies, differs by an urceolate 10-dentate staminal tube and seeds winged at the upper 

 end only. S. macrophylla, King, is a remarkable variety or species, raised at the 

 Calcutta Bot. Gardens from Honduras seed in 1872. Leaves, capsules (6x3 in.) and 

 seeds much larger, growth more rapid. Seeds more freely at Calcutta. 



14. CHUKRASIA, Adr. Jussieu, Mem. Mus. Hist. Natur. xix. (1830) p. 251. 



Wight and Arnott altered the original name into C'hickrassia ; 



Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 567. 



C. tabularis, A. Juss., the only species ; Wight. 111. t. 56 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 9. — Chittagong wood. Vern. Chikrasi, Beng. ; Pabba, Mar.; Kul hathuri, 

 Kan. ; Dal mara, Coorg ; Yimma, Burm. 



