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LXXI. OLEACE^E 



[Fraxinus 



often in the same inflorescence, calyx usually 0. Samara 1-1^ in. long, without a 

 trace of calyx. Differs from the European Ash by fewer slightly serrate leaflets and 

 by longer more slender racemes. Described as F, Hookeri, "Wenzig in Engler Jahrb. 

 iv. 179. 4. F. oxyphylla, M. Bieb. Baluchistan, Afghanistan. Similar to 3, leaflets 

 1-4 pair, coarsely serrate, samara narrowed to both ends. 



5. F. xanthoxyloides, Wall. — Syn. F. Moorcroftiana, Brandis, E. El. 

 304. Vern. Sanjal, Punj. ; Hanuz, Haz. ; Thilm, Kunawar. 



A shrub or small tree. L. approximate at the ends of branchlets, very vari- 

 able in size, leaflets 3-5 pair, 1-2 in. long, sessile or nearly so, common petiole 

 marginate. El. in compact sessile lateral many-fld. fascicles, supported by 

 a number of undeveloped woolly 1., calyx cup-shaped, 4-6-dentate. Samara 

 linear-spathulate, 1-lij? in. long, seed part thick, ribbed and furrowed, sup- 

 ported by the persistent but not enlarged calyx. 



Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Trans Indus territory. N. W. Himalaya, 3-9,000 ft., 

 chiefly in the inner dry valleys. Often gregarious. PI. March, April. 



3. SCHREBERA, Eoxb. ; El. Brit. Ind. iii. 604. 

 Species 4, of which 3 in Africa. 



S. swietenioides, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 101; Wight 111. t. 162; Bedd. El. 

 Sylv. t. 248. Vern. Mokha, ghaut, Hind,; Mokkalapa, Tel. ; Kalgante, Kan. ; 

 Mogalinga, Tarn. ; Thitswelwti, Burm. 



Fig. 169. Schrebera swietenioides, Boxb. J. 



A middle-sized deciduous tree, branches grey. L. im/paripinnate, leaflets 

 opposite 3—4 pair entire, ovate, base often unequal-sided, blade 3-5, pet. \—\ in., 

 branchlets thickened at nodes and common petioles thickened at the insertion 



