Chisocheton.] xxxvii. meliace^. (W. P. Hiern.) 553 



vated, panicles short supra-axillary, fruit subglabrous subglobose or ellip- 

 soidal 3-2-ribbed. 



Eabtehn Bengal ; in Caohar, B. L. Keenan. 



A tree with the shoots softly and shortly velvety. Leaves about 18 in. ; leaflets 

 3-8 by 1^-2^ in., dark green, subglabrous above, lateral veins 15-24 on each side of 

 midrib; petiolules J-|- in. Fruiting panicles 3 in. long; fruit orange-coloured, 

 l-l\ in. long, base shortly stipitate. Seeds nearly 1 in. long, hile ^ in. diam. near 

 the apex; cotyledons somewhat peltate. 



8. SANDOXtXCVm, Cav. 



Trees. Leaves trifoliolate, coriaceous ; leaflets quite entire, the lateral 

 ones shortly and the terminal one long-petiolulate. Flowers 5-merous, in 

 axiUary panicles, yellow or whitish. Calyx cup-shaped, with short lobes 

 imbricated in bud ; base of the tube adnate to the ovary. Petals imbri- 

 cated, spreading. Slaminal tube tubular, nearly as long as the petals, 

 toothed at the apex ; anthers 10 or 8, included. Dish cup-shaped, sheathing 

 the ovary and base of the style, laciniate. Ovary 5-celle4, adnate to the 

 calyx below, attenuate into the style above, cells opposite the calyx-lobes, 

 each with 2 collateral pendulous ovules ; style cylindrical or columnar, 

 nearly the length of the staminal tube, crowned by a slightly elevated 

 glandular ring, stigmas 5 short linear subacute or truncate. Berry supe- 

 rior, globular, fleshy, indehiscent, 3-5-ceUed and -seeded; flesh edible. 

 Seeds included in a papery aril, pulpy outside.— Disteib. A genus of about 

 4 species limited to India and the Malayan Archipelago, one species being 

 cultivated over an extensive area. 



1. S. indicum, Cav. Diss, (vii.) p. 359, tt. 202, 203 ; shoots panicles and 

 lower surface of leaves at least on the veins tawny-velvety, leaflets elliptic 

 or ovate-orbicular shortly acuminate or apiculate, base unequally obtuse, 

 flowers clustered subsessile in ample much branched panicles small yel- 

 lowish sweet-scented, calyx shortly pubescent. W. & A. Prod/r. i. 120 ; Bedd. 

 And. Gen. Iv. ; Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. xix t. 16, f. 15 ; Drury Fl. Ind. 

 i 165 ; Hassk. Betzia, i. 146 ; Boxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 261 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 392 ; 

 WaM. Cat. 1249. S. nervosum, Blume Bijd. 163. S. tematum, Blanco Fl. 

 Filip. ed. i. 346. S. glaberrimum, Hassk. Retxia, i. 145. Trichilia nervosa, 

 7ahl Symh. i. 31. Melia Koetjape, Burm. Fl. Ind. 101. T. venosa, Spreng. 

 Syst. iii. 68. 



Eastehn Penihsula ; from Eangoon and Tenaseerim (var. ^ velutiTia) to Penang. 

 Introduced in the Western Peninsula. — Distkib. Malayan Islands. 

 ■ A lofty tree. Leaves 6-18 in. ; leaflets 3-8 by 1^| in.; common petiole 1^- 

 6 in. Flowers \ in. long; calyx about ^V i"- Stigmas truncate. Fruit about 8 in. 

 diam.; pulp fleshy, acid, with a peculiar smell. — ^The Burmese eat the raw fruit. 

 Tliere are two varieties known at Sincapore, according to Captain Blomfield, under the 

 distinctive names of " Santol" and " Kach^pee ;" they differ in the fruit like the apple : 

 and pear in appearance and flavour. — S. serratura, G. Don Oen. Syst. i. 680, differing 

 by its repand-crenate leaflets, may belong to this species. 



2. S. emarg^inatum, Hiern; glabrous, leaflets obovate or elliptic 

 emarginate usually mucronulate rigid, base obtusely narrowed oblique, 

 lateral veins feeble, panicles short dense, pedicels shorter than the flowers, 

 fruit obovoid very shortly tomentose. 



Malacca, Maingay. . . 



Leaves 5-7 in.; leaflets 2-3i by lJ-2 in.; petiolules J-to h. ">■- the terminal one 

 quasi-articulated near apex, 1-lJ in. Calyx somewhat enlarged and persistent m truit. 



