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Spec. Cuan. Tree: leaves abruptly pinnate: leaflets 10-20 
pair, pale-coloured, unequal-sided, with pellucid dots : panicle ter- 
minal: flowers small, greenish-white. 
Circars and near Belgaum, flowering in March and April, The 
tree yields good oil. The wood is close-grained, yellow, and a 
good substitute for box-wood. This is known as the satin-wood 
tree. 
GENUS IV. CEDRELA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Cedrus, the cedar-tree, alluding to the aromatic 
scent of the wood. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-cleft: petals 5, erect: keeled towards 
the base on the inside; stamens and pistil on a common stalk: disk 
5-ribbed and 5-lobed at the apex: filaments inserted on the disk, 
5 antheriferous and 5 sterile or wanting ; ovary 5-celled: ovules 
8-12 in each cell: style 5-angled, deciduous: stigma 5-rayed 
above: capsule 5-celled, 5-valved: seeds produced downwards 
into a wing: albumen fleshy : embryo nearly erect. 
(1) C. Toona. (Roxb. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I, p. 124.—Roxb, fi. Ind. I. p. 635. 
Dec. prod. I. p. 624. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 161.—-Roxb, Cor, TIT. t. 238.— 
Rumph. Amb, II. t. 39, 
Seec. Cuar. Large tree: leaves abruptly pinnate: leaflets 6- 
12 pair, ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, entire or slightly toothed : 
panicles drooping : petals ciliated : stexile filaments none: ovules 
8 in each cell: capsule oblong: flowers small, whitish, fragrant. 
Peninsula. Foot of the Himalaya. Ravines at Khandalla, 
Flowering in May and June. The wood forms the Mahogany of 
India, and is much used in Bengal for furniture of all kinds, 
ORDER XXXVI. VITACEZ. 
Climbing shrubs, or erect bushes: lower leaves opposite, 
upper ones alternate, with racemes opposite them, sometimes by 
abortion changing into tendrils: calyx nearly entire: petals 4-5, 
valvate in estivation: stamens 4-5, opposite the petals: fila« 
ments distinct, or slightly cohering at the base: anthers ovate, 
versatile: ovary 2-6-celled: ovules erect: style very short: 
stigma simple: disk annular, bearing the petals on the outside 
