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minate, rarely ovate-oblong or elliptie and acute or acuminate, minutely serrulate. 

 Bacemes axillary or in tlie forks, solitary or clustered, 2-6 in. long, racliis glabrous 

 or pubescent; bracteoles oblong, concave, deciduous. Flowers about | in. diam. Fruit 

 \-^ in. diam., black. 



Oedek XLVIII.— MORlHreBH:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Deciduous trees ■with soft wood. Leaves alternate, .odd-pinnate or 2-3-pin- 

 nate ; leaflets opposite, qtdte entire, caducous as well as tlie pinnules, glandular 

 at the hase. Panicles axillary. Flowa-s irregular, bisexual. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, 5-cleft ; segments unequal, petaloid, deciduous from above the base, im- 

 bricate. Petals 5, unequal, upper smaller, lateral ascending, anterior larger. 

 Stamens inserted on the edge of the disk, declinate, 5 perfect opposite the petals 

 alternating with 5 (or 7) which are reduced to antherless filaments ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, 1-celled. Dish lining the calyx-tube. Ovary stipitate, 1-celled ; 

 style slender, tubular, stigma perforated ; ovules numetous, in 3 series, on 3 pa/- 

 rietal placentas. Capsule elongate, beaked, 3-6-angled, 1-celled, loculicidally 

 3-valved, corky and pitted within. Seeds many, in pits of the valves, testa 

 corky winged or not, albumen ; embryo straight, cotyledons plano-convex, 

 radicle very short superior, plumule many-leaved — Disikib. 3 species, natives of 

 Western Asia and NT Africa. 



A natural order of very doubtful affinity, which has been referred to near Besedacee, 

 Capparideis, Melianthecs, Violaries, FolygaUie, Legv/minoscB, Bignoniacecs, and others. 



DKORXNGA, Lamk. 



Character of the order. 



1. III. pterygrosperma, Gesrtn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 478 ; leaflets elliptic 

 ovate or obovate, nerves obscure, flowers white, capstde 9-ribbed, seeds winged. 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 178 ; Wight III. i. 186, t. 77 ; Pedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 80 ; Dalz. Sf 

 Gibs. Bomh.Fl. 814 ; Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 43 ; Brand. For. Fl. 129 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5814. M. oleiferaj Lamk. Fneyel. i. 398. M. zeylanica, Peirs. M. polygona, 

 DC. Prodr. ^. 478. Hyperanthera Moringa, Vahl.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11.368-, 

 Clriff. Notid. iv. 572, t. 609. H. decandra, Willd. Guilandina Moringa, Linn. 

 —JRheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 11. 



Forests of Western Himaij.ya and Ottdh, and cultivated elsewhere throughout 

 India. — Disteib. Cultivated in various tropical countries. 



A small tree, bark corky, wood soft, root pungent; young parts tomentose. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft., usually 3-pinnate ; petiole slender, sheathing at the base ; pinnae 4-6 

 pairs ; leaflets 6-9 pairs, J-f in., opposite, pale beneath ; petioliiles slender ; glands 

 linear, hairy. Panicles spreading, bracts linear. Flowers pediceUed, 1 in. diam., honey- 

 scented. Sepals linear-lanceolate, reflexed'. Petals narrowly spathulate. Fertile 

 filainents villous at the base. Ovary hairy. Pod 9-18 in., pendulous, 9-ribbed. 

 Seeds 3-gonous, winged at the angles. — ^The Horse-radish tree. 



2. HL. concanensis, Nimmo in Orali. Cat. Bomb. PI. 43 ; leaflets 1- 

 IJ in. broadly elliptic or orbicular, nerves 4^6 pair distinct. Dalz. Sf Gfibs. 

 Bomb. Flor. 311 ; Brandis For. Flor. 130. 



Eajputaita, on dry hills ; Sindh and the CoNCiN. 



A tree, very similar to M. pterygesperma, but the leaves are much larger as are 

 the leaflets, which are often retuse at the tip ; the petals are yellowish streaked with 

 pink. Seeds J in. long, very broadly trigonous with membranous wings. This may 

 possibly be the red-flowered species alluded to by Eoxburgh (Fl. Ind, ii. 368) as occur- 

 ring near Maldah. 



