158 
Sprc. Cuar. Leaflets 2-4 pair, entire, somewhat glaucous 
beneath: panicles lax, terminal: calyx deeply 5-partite: petals 
5, narrow-oblong, hairy, without a scale: stamens hairy ovary 
2-3-lobed : stigmas 2-3, linear: berries usually solitary or in pairs, 
rarely 3, globose, slightly scabrous: flowers white. . 
Peninsula. Ram Ghaut. Flowering in February and March, 
The fruit which is the size of a cherry is eatable. The wood is 
hard and-close-grained. 
(2) N. rmmosum. (W. § 4.) 
Ident. W. & A, prod. I. ‘p. 113. Annot. 
Syn. Scytalia rimosa, Rowbd. fl. Ind. I. p. 272. 
Spec. Cuar. Tree: leaflets 3-4 pair, lanceolate: panicles ax- 
illary and terminal: petals wanting: berries oblong, rithose, tuber 
cled : flowers small, greenish. 
Silhet, flowering in March and April. Fruit eatable. 
(3) N. nuszum. (Wight.) 
Ident. Voigt. Hort. Calc. p. 95. 
Syn. Scytalia rubra, Roxb. fi Ind. Tl. p. 272. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 24, 25. 
Spec. CuAr. Tree: leaflets 4-5 pair, lanceolate: panicles ter- 
minal and axillary, shorter than the leaves: petals 5, round, con- 
cave, smooth: stigma 2-cleft: segments recurved: fruit oblong, 
smooth, purple: flowers small, dark-purplish red. 
Silhet, flowering in March. 
GENUS VII. SCHLEICHERA. 
Octandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Gen. Cuan. Trees: leaves abruptly pinnate, exstipulate : 
ealyx 5-toothed: petals wanting: ovary 3-celled, with one erect 
ovule in each cell: style crowned by a 38-cleft stigma: drupe 
indehiscent, 1—2-celled : ‘seeds solitary, covered with pulpy aril. 
(1) S. rrivea. (Willd) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 114.—Roxb. fl, Ind. IL. p. 277. 
Syn. Melicocea trijuga, Dec. prod. I. p. 615.—Stadmannia 
trijuga, Spreng. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaflets about 8 pair, oblong or broadly-lanceo- 
late, entire, nearly glabrous: racemes axillary or below the leaves, 
solitary, simple or compound: drupe globose, surmounted with 3. 
points: flowers small, greenish. 
Coromandel. Western Ghauts and Travancore. 
February and March, Flowering in 
