226 BURSERACEZ. [ Carapa. 
nating with the teeth or lobes. Disk thick, hemispherical. Ovary 
4-5-celled, each cell with 2 to 6 ovules superposed in 2 rows;_ 
style short.. Capsule fleshy or woody, 1-5-celled (the thin septa 
often obliterating), 2-5-seeded. Seeds large, packed round the 
remains of the central axis, convex-angular, the testa spongy. 
Arillus none—Trees, with abruptly or unpaired-pinnate leaves. 
Flowers usually in poor axillary panicles. 
Flowers about 2 lm. across, 5-merous; leaflets in 2.3 pairs, more or 
less ovate, shortly bluntish acuminate . ‘ mice « OC. moluccensis. 
Leaflets obovate to obovate-oblong in 2-1 pairs or solitary, retuse 
or rounded; flowers about 4 lin. in diameter, 4-merous . . C. obovata. 
1. C, moluccensis, Lamk.— Peng-Jay-oang.—A small evergreen 
tree, all parts glabrous; leaves abruptly or spuriously unpaired- 
pinnate, the rachis terete; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs, ovate or ovate- 
oblong, usually a little oblique, bluntish or shortly bluntish acu-. 
minate, chartaceous (somewhat fleshy when fresh), very shortly 
petioluled, entire, glabrous ; flowers small, about 2 lin. in diameter, 
on slender glabrous pedicels, forming slender lax panicles in 
axils of the leaves and often as long as them; calyx 5-cleft, 
the lobes rotundate, acute; petals 5, nearly 14 line long; sta- 
minal tube about 14 lin. long, erenate; capsules the size of a s 
lime or smaller, globose, containing 2 or 3 large angular seeds. 
Has.—Not unfrequent along the rocky and sandy shi f the Andamans, 
especially along the aia sidee= Pr. pr sMape: be peta! el, 
_ 2. C. obovata, BI. (C. moluccensis, Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 136.) 
Peng-lay-oang.—An evergreen tree (25—40 + 8—20 + 4—6), 
parts glabrous ; leaves eas pinnate, or occasionally simple, 
the smooth rachis brown or - leaflets in 2 or a sin > 
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Morse 
Has.—Frequent in the littoral forests, especially the tidal ones, all along 
the shores from Chittagong down to Tonseseeiay and the cnienae= Fl. June- 
July; Fr. Apr.-May.—l.—SS. = Sal. ee 
__ ReMarKs.—Wood pale or dark reddish-brown, broadly streaked, not Very 
rather heavy, strong. O’—47 Good for handles of tools 
&e., ts. The fruits used for 
