546 xxxvii. MELiACE:ffi. (W. P. Hiem.) {Dysomyhim. 



6. DVSOXVXiTTIKI, Blume. 



Trees, mostly glabrous. Leaves pinnate ^ leaflets quite entire, opposite 

 subopposite or alternate, more or less acuminate at tie apex and oblique at 

 the base, coriaceous. Flowers paniculate, hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-fid, 

 dentate or partite or subentire, imbricated, caducous. Petals 4^5, oblong, 

 spreading, valvate or slightly imbricated. Staminal iube^ cylindrical, den- 

 tate or crenulate at mouth ; anthers short, 6, 8 or 10, ihcluded or half 

 exserted. Bisk tubular, equalling or twice the length of the ovary, cre- 

 nulate or entire at the mouth. Ovary usually- 3-4-celled ; style about 

 equalling the staminal tube ; ovules usually 2 in each ceU. Capsule globose 

 or pear-shaped, coriaceous (often thickly so), 1-4-celled, loculicidal ; seeds 

 arUlate or exarUlate, exalbuminous. — Disteib. Species about 40, many 

 in the Malay Archipelago, and a few in Australia and New Zealand. 



The Indian species appear to be endemic. Many species emit an alliaceous odonr. 



Sect. 1 C<dyx cup-shaped, subentire, about half the length of the 

 flower. 



1, O. binectariferum, Hooh.f.ex Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc.xiv. 

 212 ; pallid, leaflets 5-9 alternate elliptic acuminate glabrous, panicles 

 nearly glabrous much shorter than the leaves, pedicels shorter than the 

 4-merous obsoletely tomentose flowers, -calyx thick urceolate-cupshaped 

 subentire, petals valvate except the apex, disk glabrous inside scarcely 

 so outside twice as long as the 4-celled shortly hairy ovary, style very 

 shortly hairy, fruit obovoid somewhat pyiiform or subglobose nearly 

 glabrate or puberulous. Guarea binectarifera, lioxb. JBort. B^ig. 28; M. 

 Ind. ii. 240; Wall. Cat. 1260; Grak. Cat. Bomb. PL 31. D. macrocarpum, 

 Thwaites Enum. 60 ; Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 150 ; Anal. Gen. liv. ; Twt of 

 Blume. G. Gotadhora, Buch. Ham,, in Edinh, Mem. Wem. Soc. vi. 307; 

 Wall. Gat. 4884, eaxl. lett. B. Epicharis exarillata. Am. ex W. & A. Prodr. 

 i. 120, not of Nimmo. ? G. Amaris, Hamilt. I.e. 308. 



Khasia Mts. and Assam; Westekn Peniksula from the Concan southwards; 

 Ceylon (? Sikkim Himalaya and S. Andaman Islds.). 



A tree 30 ft. high or more. Leaves 9-18 in. ; leaflets 2^-7 by 1-3 in. ; petiolules 

 4-§ in. ii^oicers I in., pale green ; calyx nearly half the length of the flower ; staminal 

 tube somewhat mealy on both sides. Fruit 2J in. long, reddish, 4-celled, 4-seeded. 

 Seeds polished, dark purple., — The form with smaller and nan-ower leaves is the var. jS 

 of Dr. Thwaites. Arnodra ficiformis, Wight llhistr. Ind. Bat. i. 147, closely resembles 

 the Ceylon specimens, and may be synonymous with this species. 



Sect. II. Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite or -sepalous, mostly short. 

 * Flowers panicled. 

 t Ovary glabrous. 



2. D. brevipes, Hiem ; leaflets 5-11 opposite or alternate elliptic or 

 ovate-bblong acuminate glabrous, ultimate pedicels shorter than the 

 glabrous flowers, calyx small cup-shaped irregularly 4-toothed, petals (3-) 4, 

 disk exceeding the 3-4-celled glabrous ovary, fruit pear-shaped 4-valved. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tree. Leaves 8-24 in. ; leaflets 3-9 by 1-2 in., sometimes obscurely pellucid- 

 punctate ; lateral veins more or less depressed on the upper surface ; petiolules J-J in. 

 Flowers |-J in., white, with a strong alliaceous smell ; petals distinctly but slightly im- 

 bricated at the margin ; staminal tube pilose inside ; connective obtusely apiculate ; ovary 

 glabrous ; style glabrous, smooth, stigma discoid flattened at apex, its base surrounded 



