560 XXXVII. MELiACEiE. (W. P. Hicm.) [Amoora. 



glabrescent, base more or less narrowed, panicles racemose ratter lax much 

 shorter than the leaves, calyx cup-shaped 3-toothed, petals 3, anthers 6, 

 ovary 2-ceUed, fruit obovoid. Aglaia chittagonga, Miq. in Ann. Mm. 

 Lugd.-Bat. iv. 44.— Meliacea, Oriff. Itin. Notes 168. 



Bhotan and Upper Assam, Griptk; the Khasta Mts., Chittagong, /. Z). 5. <fe 

 T. T. (M%lne.a, No. 13); Pegu, Kwra. . „, , , . 



A tree. Leaves 6-12 in. ; leaBets 3-8 ty 1-3 in. ; petiolule J-J' in. Mowers ^| m. 

 long, pedioelled. Fruit (immature ?) | in. long, longitudinally ridged, 2-oelled. 



3. A. canarana, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 335 ; young parts inflo- 

 rescence calyx and fruit lepidote, leaflets 4r-6 alternate or subalternate 

 narrowly elliptic acuminate glabrate above usually punctate-lepidote 

 beneath, base more or less narrowed shortly petiolulate, panicles pyramidal 

 much branched shorter than the leaves, flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx 

 4-5-toothed cup-shaped ebracteate, corolla 3- (-4) -partite, staminal tube 

 truncate, anthers 6 (-7) included or slightly exserted, ovary 3-ceUed, cells 

 2-ovuled, fruit obovoidl Oraoma canarana, Turcz. in Bvll. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 1858,1.411. 



Western Pehinsula, from Canara, Stocks, to the Anamallay hills, Beddome. 

 Leaves 6-14 in.; leaflets 3-6 by lJ-24 in.; petiolule ^ in. Fruit (immature?) 

 I in. long. 



tt Leaflets 3-13 opposite or suhopposiie. 



4. At cucuUata, RoA Cor. PI. iii. 54, t. 268 ; subglabrous, leaflets 3-13 

 opposite or subopposite obliquely ovate-oblong obtuse at both ends 

 glabrous shining firm terminal one often hooded at the apex, male panicles 

 drooping about as long as the leaves with numerous diverging branches 

 sparingly lepidote, female racemes few-flowered, calyx 3-lobed, petals 3, 

 anthers 6 (-8), ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled, fruit subglobose 3-lobed 

 3-celled 3-valved. Dalz. & Gibs. Bmnh. Fl. 37; Drury Ind. Fl. I 164. 

 Anderaonia cucullata, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 87 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 212. Sphserosacme 

 Eohituka, Wall. Gat. 1278, exd. syn. S. ? laxa. Wall. Oat. 4894. S. pani- 

 ctdata. Wall. Herb, ex Miq. Ann. Mm. L-ugd.-Bat. iv. 37. % Amoora auri- 

 culata, Miq. fide Miq. l.c. 



Lower Behgai, in the Sunderbunds, and in Nipal, Wallich; King's Island in the 

 Andamahs, Heifer. 



A tree of considerable size and slow growth with cinereous bark and smooth branches. 

 Leaves 6-16in. ; leaflets 3-74 ^7 ^^-^J in. ; petiolule |-§ in. or terminal one longer. 

 Male fl. J in. yellow. Bracts caducous, 2 at the base of the calyx. Staminal tvhe 

 turbinate or subglobose. Capsule 2\ in. diam. Seeds three-quarters covered with a 

 fleshy bright orange-oolonred aril. 



5. A. lanceolata, Hiem; subglabrous, leaflets about 17 opposite or 

 subopposite approximated lanceolate obtusely acuminate glabrous shining, 

 base obtuse lateral veins inconspicuous, male panicles nearly equalling the 

 leaves, flowers 3-merou8 shortly pedicelled, calyx trifid, anthers 6 just 

 included, ovary in the male flowers rudimentary. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Shoots angular at the apex, leafy and with numerous axillary panicles. Leaves 6- 

 10 in. ; leaflets 2-3 by \-% m. ; petiolule ^\ in. Flmoers very small. Staminal tiibe 

 globosely cup-shaped, 6-lobed ; lobes ovate, obtuse, minutely apiculate. Anthers mi- 

 nutely and very sparingly pilose. Stigmas 3, sessile, linear-trigonous, glabrous. 



