68 “MORINGACER. [ Moringa. 
ous, the nerves almost horizontal ; flowers } in. in diameter, densely 
tomentose, in short very pubescent axillary racemes, and forming 
small terminal panicles ; sepals 6, imbricate 1 “e: - series, strap-shaped, 
blunt, densely pubescent, finally recurved ; stamens about 20, not 
much. exceeding the sepals; ovary densely somes on a gyno- 
phore of its own length, 3-celled; style subulate with 3 minute 
stigmas ; ovules about 4 in each cell—(From Hooker’s Ind. Fl.) 
Hap.—Ava. 
MORINGACEA. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular. Calyx cyathiform, 5-parted, 
the lobes unequal an spreading, imbricate in bud. Petals 5, 
almost: conform with the sepals, the 2 upper ones smaller. Disk 
filling the calyx-tube, free along the very short margin. Stamens 
inserted to the disk-margin, 5 fertile ones alternating with as many 
rudimentary and often bristle-like ones ; filaments free ; anthers 
l.celled, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary stalked, 1-celled, with 
3 parietal placentas bearing many ovules in 2 rows; style slender 
with a perforate, truncate stigma. Capsule pod-like, 3-6-angular, 
1-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded. Seeds winged or not, separated by 
spongy walls, without albumen —Trees, with 2- -3-pinnate leaves. 
Sebi none or reduced to stalked glands. Flowers in axillary 
panicles, 
MORINGA, Juss. 
ae characters those of the family. 
tery: wapernia Gaertn.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 45; Bedd. 
Syly. M we ees uty Brand, For. Fl. mae — Dan-tha-lone. ok tree 
(30—40 4+ 10-20 + 38—4), the younger parts puberulous; bark 
vogiketinaly corky-cracked, grey, boat an in. thick ; cut whitish- 
_ green ; leaves supra-decompound, the pinna and secondary pinne all 
opposite, the rachis and petioles, especially while young, more or less 
rulous; leaflets small, 3-6 lin. long, obovate, entire, 
blunt, on a very short but slender puberulous petiolule, membran- 
ous, glaucous S green, minutely pubescent above, pale-coloured and 
slightly pubescent along the midrib beneath; flowers white (rarely 
red), rather large, on 6-8 lin. long puberalous pedicels dea 
ty densely puberulous or shortly pubescent panicles ; pods 1-14 
= ‘ft. long, Sin las and furrowed, greyish puberulous, more or 
ee Tess torose, 3-valved ; seeds 3- angular, the angles expanded into 
win, 
= ee ee tem and the adjacent islands.—Fl- 
Remass.—Wood soft, white. a _ Seeds yield the <i of 
