198 RUTACER. [ Feronia. 
narrowly or rarely broadly winged ; flowers small, white, usually 
solitary, shortly pedicelled ; calyx small ; petals 5, oval-oblong, 3-4 
lin. long ; aeaok globular with a thick rather long style; berries 
rather small, from 1-3 in. in diameter, globose to oblong, with a 
sweet acid or bitter recs ed pulp, the skin nearly smooth and 
usually thin, orange-coloure 
Has.—Very much cultivated ae over Burma.—Fl. H.S.; Fr. R. s. 
RemarKs.—Wood heavy, yellow, of an unequal coarse fibre, but close-grained, 
rather hard. 
FERONIA, Corr. 
Flowers by spon polygamous. Calyx deciduous, 5-toothed. 
Petals 5 (rarely 4 or 6), imbricate. Stamens 10-12, some of them 
usually as ghee Ae dilated at base ; anthers linear-oblong. 
Torus short. Ovary 5-6-celled, finally 1 -celled, w ovules 
in several rows sate the parietal placentas. Berry globose, with 
a woody rind, l-celled, many-seeded. Seeds immersed in a flesh 
edible pulp. —Armed trees with unpaired-pinnate leaves, Flowers 
ms y racemose or panicled, 
ee —o” Corr.; Hf. Ind. Fl, i. 516; Bedd. Sylv. 
Mair. 121; Brand. For. Fl. 56.—Mahan.—A leaf-shedding tree 
(25—30+8—10 +2—8), armed with short straight infra-axillary 
spines, all parts glabrous; leaves unpaired-pinnate, the rachis slight- 
ly or almost not winged ; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs with an odd one, 
nearly sessile, obovate, sometimes cuneate at base, blunt or — 
about 1-1} in. long, obscurely crenate or almost entire, coriac 
glabrous, glossy above; flowers small, ereenish-white, on slenden 
pedicels, forming short terminal or axillary lax racemes or poor 
panicles ; petals about 3-4 lin. ie stamens usually 10, unequal ; 
parr elbow, about 13-2 in diameter, énecollnd, the 
numerous mersed in a “aie pidiae pulp. 
Has. ee sila dry forests (?)—Fl, March-Apr.; Fr. Octob—1. 
Remazks.—Wood yellowish-white, rather heavy, rather fibrous, but. 
_— re comes taken’ fine poliak: Yie is dsp Takis es oO Lac is 
m it, 
ZEGLE, Corr. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4- or 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals 
icate. 
