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ORDER XXXV. CEDRELACEZ. 
Trees with alternate, exstipulate, pinnated leaves: calyx 4-5- 
sepalled, or 4—5-cleft: petals as many as, and alternate with, 
the segments of the calyx, distinct, twisted or convolute in sxs- 
tivation: stamens twice as many as the petals, those opposite: 
the petals shorter than the others, or sterile or deficient: fila- 
ments inserted on a hypogynous disk, sometimes broad and 2- 
toothed at the apex and united into a tube, sometimes distirict, 
each l-anthered at the apex: anthers fixed by the back at their 
base or middle, introrse, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise: ovary 
free: ovules 4-12, or more, in each cell, in a double row: style 
simple: stigma 5-angled, or lobed: fruit woody, capsular, 3-5- 
celled, 3-5-valved: seeds without an aril, flat and winged, im- 
bricated: albumen thin and fleshy, or none. 
GENUS I. SOYMIDA. 
Mionadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The Telugu name latinised. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 5, imbricated: petals 5, shortly clawed : 
stamen-tube cup-shaped: lobes cohering by their base, bearing 
anthers on the inside of the tube: ovary 5-celled, with 12 ovules 
in each cell: style 5-angled : capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, dehiscing 
from the apex: seeds pendulous, expanding on all sides into a 
wing : embryo straight. 
({) S. repriruca. (Juss. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 122. 
Syn. Swietenia febrifuga, Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 398.—Deec: 
prod. I. p. 625. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. I, t. 17. 
Spsc. Cuar. Tree: leaves abruptly pinnate: leaflets opposite, 
usually 4 pair, oval-oblong : racemes axillary, forming a panicle by 
the abortion of the upper leaves : flowers small, greenish-white. 
Central and Southern Provinces. Guzerat. F lowering in March 
and April. The bark is a useful tonic in intermittent fevers when 
quiuine cannot be procured. 
