CedreU.] xxxvii. MELiACEiE. (W. P. Hiern.) 569 



l.c. 73. C. australis, F. Muell. FrOgm. L i, teste Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 387. 

 ! Or multijuga, Kwrz in Joum. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xU. ii. 297. Toona ciliata, 

 febrifuga, hexandra, serrata, and longifolia, Eoem. Synops. i. 139, 140. — 

 Bumph. Herb. Amhoin. iii. t. 39. 



Teopical Himalaya ; from the Indus eastward, ascending to 3000 ft. ; and through- 

 o'at the hilly districts of Central and Southeen India and Bibma (absent in Ceylon!). 

 --DiSTRiu. Java, Australia. 



Leaves 1-3 ft., deciduous ; • leaflets 2-7 hy |-3 in., sometimes glauoesoent beneath. 

 Flowers fragrant, J-| in. long. Petals ciliate. Capavle about |-1 in. long, oblong. — 

 Dr. Brandia distinguishes C. serrata from C. Toona by several characters ; however, 1 do 

 not find any of thcra constant, except that in the few examples that show it the seeds 

 of the former have wings at the upper end only, while those of the latter have wings at 

 both ends ; it is common throughout the Himalaya, attaining an elevation of 8000 ft. — 

 He flowers are used for dyeing : see Buchcman, Jov/rney, i. 215, iii. 288. 



19. CKXiOBOXVXiON, DC. 



A moderate-sized tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets obtuse, oblique, 

 entire. Fanicles terminal and axillary, pubescent; flowers small penta- 

 merpns. Calyx deeply lobed. Petals spreading, unguiculate, imbricated in 

 bad! Stamens 10, inserted in tlie depressions of the di^k, free : filaments 

 filiform-subulate, the alternate ones rather longer ; anthers small, versatile. 

 Disk thick, 10-lobed, pubescent. Ovary pubescent, immersed in the disk ; 

 8-lobed, 3-celled; cells about S-ovuled; style short, slender, glabrous, 

 stigma smail, capitate. Capsule coriaceous, 3-ceUed, loculicidally 3-valved'. 

 Seeds compressed, exalbuminous ; margins angular, winged above ; coty- 

 ledons plano-convex. — Distkeb. One endemic species. 



1. C Swletenia, DO. Prodr. i. 625 ; leaflets 20-40 opposite subopposite 

 or sjternate glabrous pale and dotted on lower surface base very unequal 

 shortly petioluled, panicles scarcely as long as the leaves, pedicels longer 

 than the flowers, capsule glabrous oblong dark brown. W. & A. Prodr. i. 

 123; Wight III. i. t. 56 bis; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 32; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. 

 1. 11 ; Brandis Fl. Sylvat. 74 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Brnnb. Fl. 39 ; Thwaites Enum. 

 61 ; WaU. Gat. 1268. Swie"tenia Chloroxylon, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 64 ; Fl. 

 lid. ii 400. 



Westeen Peninsula, from the Conoan to the Nilghiris ; Ceylon. 



Toung parts petioles and inflorescence covered with grey puberulenoe ;, heartwood 

 with a beautifiil satin lustre and fragrant. Leaves &-9 in. ; leaflets §-1 \ by J-| in. 

 Homers J in. wide when open. Capsule 1 iu. long by 4 in. thick.^Indian Satin- 

 wood. 



Melucea penanqiana, WaU. Oat. 4889, from Penang, consists of 3 unnameable 

 and apparently diverse species, one of which is probably a Oa/narivini. 

 Mellacea BnoosA, Wall. l.c. 4891, from Penang is probably not Meliaceous. 



Order XXXVIH. CHAILLi:TIACE.a:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire ; stipules 2, deciduous. 

 Mowers small, unisexual or polygamous, in corymbose cymes ; peduncles, 

 sometimes adnata to the petiole. Sepals 5, free or connate, sometimea 

 unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, free, subperigynous, equal or unequal, 

 notched or 2-fid, with often an inflexed lamina, which is adnate to the face 

 of the petal, usually open in aestivation. Stamens 5, subperigynous, aU or 

 some only fertile, free or adnate to the corolla ; anthers oblong, connective 



