662 xxxTii. MELiACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) 



' Westee^ Penimstila, from the Concan to Malabar. 



A middiing-sized tree ; scales yellowish brown. Leaves 6-9 in. long ; leaflets 3-5 

 by 14-2 in., axils of lateral veins sometimes with hairy gland-lik« excrescences (galls?), 

 petiolules J-4 in. Flowers tu— J ii' lo'igj white, rarely 5-merous. Fruit 1 in. long, 

 abounding in white resinous juice. 



tttt Petals 5. Anthers 10. 



10. A. VXaingayi, Hiem ; subglabrous, leaflets 3-4 elliptic obtusely 

 acuminate glabrous shining above alternate or subopposite base more or 

 less narrowed shortly petiolulate, panicles shorter than the leaves, flowers 

 pentamerous, calyx short Cleft, anthers 10 included, ovary minutely Mrsute 

 3-celled, stigmas 3 connate sessUe. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Leaves numerous, 4-6 in. long ; leaflets very minutely pellucid-punctate, 3-44 ^7 

 1-1 1 in. Flowers y^ in. long; petals slightly adherent at their base to the staminal 

 tube. 



11. A, decandra, Hiern ; leaflets 7-13 opposite oblong acuminate 

 base somewhat cuneate or nearly rounded subglabrescent, opposite sub- 

 membranous, sepals very short, anthers 10, ovary (3-) 5-celled cells 

 1-ovuled, fruit globose-obovoid 5-furrowed umbUicate 5-celled and -seeded. 

 Aglaia? decandra, Wall, in Boxh. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey, ii. 427. Sphsero- 

 sacme fragrans, Wall. l.c. 429 ; Voigt Hort. Svhurh. CaLcutt. 135. Lansium 

 (sp.) W. & A. Prodr. i. 119 ; Bemth. & Hooh.f. Gen. PI. i. 334 S. decandra, 

 Wall. Gat. 1276. 



NiPAL, Wallieh; Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., Hh. Griffith, J.D.H. ; Malayan PEHUf- 

 SVLA, Maingay. 



A large spreading tree with thick trunk. Leaves about 1 ft. long ; leaflets 1^-8 by 

 by |-2 in. ; petiolules short. Male panicles equalling the leaves ; flowers very fra- 

 grant, on slender pedicels. Petals 5. Fruit about 1 J in. diameter, capsular. 



Sect. II. Style long. 



.12. A. t Championii, Benth. ds Hook f. Gen. PI. i. 335 ; leaflets 4^6 

 abruptly pinnate opposite obovate- cuneate glabrous and shining subcor- 

 iaceous without prominent nerves shortly petiolulate apex rounded, panicles 

 supra-axillary slightly puberulent about half the length of the leaves, 

 flowers pedicelled tetramerous oblong, calyx short, petals oblong very 

 slightly or scarcely imbricated in bud at length spreading or reflexed, apex 

 obtusely pointed, staminal tube widely tubular obtusely dentate bearing 

 inside near apex 8 equal short 2-ceUed anthers in one rdw, ovary glabrous 

 4-celled cells 1- (or 2- cf. fig. in Hb. Kew.) ovuled, style columnar, nearly as 

 long as the staminal tube, stigma capitate, disk 0, fruit globose-pyriform 

 1-2-seeded, seeds exalbuminous with aril. Thwaites Enum. 409- Bedd. 

 Anal. Gen. Iv. Dysoxylon Championii, Hook.f. & Thorns, ex Thwaites, 61. 



CErLON ; Central province, up to 4000 ft. alt., Thwaites. 



A large tree, with leaves 4-7 in. long ; leaflets 2-4 by J-IJ in. ; petiolules J-S in. 

 Flowers yellowish, J m. long. Fndt 1 in. long.— Differs from the type of Amoora bv 

 the elongated style and by abruptly pinnate leaves. Perhaps a new genus. Mr. Kurz 

 (in Journ. Asiat. Soo. Beng. xxxix. ii. 72, 1870) declares it to be a species closely allied 

 to Carapa (Xylocarpus) carnosula, Zoll. 



