iansitm.] xxxvii. meliace*. (W. P. Hiern.) 559 



4ov, i. 121, are probably also varieties of this cultivated speoieB. L. silvestre 

 Boemer, I.e. according to Micjuel, I.e. scarcely belongs to Meliaoese ; the plant intended 

 by this name has been referred by De Candolle to Cookia punctata, Metz. 



11. AMTOORA, Boxb. 



Trees. Zea-yes_ usually unequally-pinnate ; leaflets oblique quite entire 

 axillary snbdioecious, paniculate ; female spicate or racemose. Calyoo 3-5- 

 partite or -fid. Petals 3-5, thick, concave, imbricated, rarely slightly com- 

 bined at the base. Siaminal tvhe subglobose or campanulate, incon- 

 spicuously e-10-crenate; anthers 6-10, included. Dish obsolete. Ovary 

 sessile, short, 3-5-celled; cells 1-2-ovuled ; stigma sessile, or style elon- 

 gated in A. Ghampumii. Capsule subglobose, coriaceous, S-i-celled and 



-seeded, loculicidally 3-5-valved. Seeds in a fleshy aril, with ventral hile. 



DiSTEiB. A genus of about 15 species occurring onJy in India and the 

 Malay Archipelago, and also 1 endemic species in Australia. 



Sect. I. Style short ; staminal tvhe subglobose or turbinate. 



* Panides ^picate, male branched, female dmple or branched ; flowers suh- 

 iessUe. Starmnal tvhe 6-toothed; anthers 6. 



1. A.. Bohituka, W. <k A. Prodr. i. 119 ; young parts tawny closely 

 pubescent in most cases quickly glabrescent leafy, leaflets 9-15 more or less 

 elliptic or ovate acuminate opposite base usually obtuse shortly petiolulate 

 flowers white bracteate subsessile, male spikes panicled, female simple 

 calyx 5-partite, petals 3, anthers 6, ovary 3-c elled with 2 superposed ovules, 

 in each cell. Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 132 (but pedicels ^-^ in. long) ; Bran- 

 dis For. Fl. 69. Andersonia Rohituka, EoaA. Hort. Bencj. 87 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 

 213 ; Rod). Drawings in Hh. Kew. tt. 934, 1827. Sphserosacme polystachya, 

 Wm. Gat. 1277. Aglaia ? polystachya. Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Garey, 

 ii. 429. S. spicata, TFaZ?. Cat. 4895. Buchanania spicata Hb. Roxh. ex Wall. l.c. 

 Mehacea Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4888. Amotra maorophylla, Nimmo in 

 (hah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 31. Andersonia Eohitoca, Grif. Notid, iv. 507 : Ic. 

 PI. Asiat. iv. t. 589, f. 3. 



Assam, Rilhet, Cachab, Oudh, Western Peninsula from Conoan to Travancorej 

 Tenasseetm and the Andaman Islands, Malacca, Cetlon. — Dibtiub. Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Philippine Islds. 



An evergreen tree with a large crown of branches. Leaves 1-3 ft..; leaflets 3-9 

 by lJ-4: in. Male panicles equalling or shorter than the leaves, female about half the 

 length of the leaves ; male flowers J, female J in. long. Stigma trigonous, angles 

 opposite the calyx-lobes. Fruit smooth, pale yellow or reddish, 1-1 4 in. diam., scarcely 

 attenuate at the base, rather "soft and fleshy, 3-celled, 3-valved. — The seeds supply an 

 economic oil. — Col. Beddome, in his Flora Sylvatica, t. 132, figures and describes under 

 this name a form from the Anamallay hills with shortly pedicelled flowers, the pedicels 

 iaeasuring J-J in. lolig. A plant gathered by Dr. Hooker in the Sikkim Terai and 

 Eursiong with very large leaves, the leaflets measuring 12-15 by 3-6 in., may belong 

 to this species. 



** Flowers panicled, not spicate. 



t Petals 3. Anthers 6-10. 



X Leaflets 3-6, alternate or subalternate. 



2. A. chlttag'ong^a, Riern ; young parts calyx and fruit lepidote, 

 leaflets 3-6 alternate and subalternate narrowly elliptic acuminate laub- 



