550 XXXVII. MELiACE^. (W. P. Hiern.) [Dysoxylwm. 



divisions slightly crennlate at the margins ; stamens 10 ; ovary 5-cellfid, each cell con- 

 taining 1 subhorizontal ovule ; seeds with an incomplete orange arillus. 



7. CKXSOCKETOIT, Blume. {Schiiochiton.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, quite entire, opposite or subopposite : 

 leaflets more or less oblique. Panicles supra-axillary divaricately branched 

 many-flowered, rarely axillary or flovf ers in spicate racemes ; flowers poly- 

 gamo-dioecious. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4r-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, very 

 rarely 6, usually linear-elongated, long cohering m a tube especially below, 

 at length spreading, somewhat imbricated or valvate. SiamirMl tvhe elon- 

 gated, slender, tubular, 4-«-iobed at the apex, lobes entire or toothed : 

 anthers linear, equal in number to and alternate with the lobes, included 

 or somewhat exserted. Disk short and fleshy or tubular. Ovary short, 2-4- 

 celled ; style filiform, usually exceeding the staminal tube, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules usually one in each cell. Capsule subglobose, thickly coriaceous, 2-4- 

 celled, loculicidally 2-4-valved. Seeds usually enclosed in an imperfect aril, 

 hile usually suborbicular or oval ; cotyledons usually peltate. — Distkib. A- 

 genus of about 12 species confined to Eastern India and the Indian Archi- 

 pelago. 



Sect. I. Bacemes spicate. 



1. C. spicatus, Hiern; leaflets 4 or 6 opposite elliptic or oblong 

 acuminate glabrescent, base cuneate shortly petiolulate, racemes spicate 

 axillary, calyx entire, staminal tube obtusely 5-6-toothed, anthers 5-6. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tree about 30 ft. high. Young parts and inflorescence pale tawny, puhemlent. 

 Leaves 8-12 in., terminating in a growing point; leaflets 2-6 by 1^-2 in., but little 

 oblique. Spikes 4-6 in., about double the length of the common peduncle ; flowers sub- 

 sessile, i-| in. long ; braoteoles ovate, small. Petals 4. Staminal tvhe appressedly 

 pubescent on both sides. Fruit (immature) attenuate at both ends, especially to- 

 wards apex, obsoletely tomentose. 



Sect. II. Flowers panicled. 

 * Anthers 5 vrfew&r. 



2. C. erytiirocarpus, Hiern; leaflets 10-12 opposite elliptic or 

 oblong obtusely cuspidate glabrate above, base obtuse, panicles about half 

 the length of the leaves many-flowered supra-axillary, anthers 5, disk in- 

 conspicuous, fruit globose base stipitate. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Young parts petioles petiolules and fruit tawny and shortly tomentose. Leaves ter- 

 minating in growing points, about 1 ft. long or more ; leaflets 3-6 by 1 J-2 in. ; petio- 

 lules J— J in. Flowers ^ in. long ; pedicels short. Calyx 3-5-toothed. Petals 

 5, valvate. Staminal tvhe truncately 5-toothed at apex, pubescent on both sides, teeth 

 centrally emarginate, truncate ; anthers 5, included. Chairy 2-?-celled; ovules solitary. 

 Fruit bright biood-red. Seeds exarillate, 1 in. long ; testa very thick, coriaceous, bright 

 orange ; hile f-J in. diam. 



3. C. pendullflorus, Planch, rass. in Hb. Kern.; tawny velvety, leaf- 

 lets 10-11 opposite elliptic or ovate or upper cues obovate cuspidate base 

 rounded or subcordate except of the upper leaflets, panicles elongated 

 supra-axillary very narrow pendulous, flowers 4r-5-merous elongated, calyx 

 toothed or entire, staminal tube appressedly pilose outside below its 3-5 

 lobes, sparingly pilose inside below the middle, lobes deeply emarginate, 

 anthers 3-5 included sessUe, style very slender glabrous above pilose below, 

 disk glabrous free short oupular fleshy. Melia penduMora, Wall. Cai. n. 1255. 



