SOHLEICHERA. TRIJUGA. (Nat, order Sapindacese.) 



SCHLEICHEIJA. Wittd. — GEM. CIIA.1t. Flowers polygarno dioecious, calyx small 4-6 cleft valvate or obscurely imbricate, petals 0, disk 

 repand or lobed, stamens 8-10 (rarely 4-5) inserted ou to the disk, filaments elongate puberulous, anthers basifixed, ovary 3-4 celled, attenuated into a rigid 

 style, stigma capitate 3-4 lobed, revnlute, ovules solitary in the cells erect, fruit dry subcrustaceous ovoid apiculated with the base of the style unarmed 

 or armed with a few prickle?, 1-3 celled, seed erect included in a pulpy aril compressed, testa black, embryo conduplieate, cotyledons unequal connate. Trees, 

 leaves alternate exstipulate abruptly or unequally pinnate, leaflets subopposite few paired entire or undulately repand, racemes simple or paniculate, 

 flowers 3mall fasciculate. — Cassumbium, Rumph. Koon, Gozrt. Melicocea, Juss. 



ScHLEICHERATBIJUGA. (Willd.) A large tree, young parts sericeous, leaves about the extremities of the branches 

 abruptly pinnate, 8-16 inches long, leaflets 2 4 pairs, subopposite sessile lanceolate to oblong, entire very unequal at the base, pretty 

 smooth on both sides, the lowest pair the smallest, 3 to 8 inches long by 1-1^ broad, panicles axillary or from the old axils, slightly 

 puberulous ; male flowers and hermathrodtte generally ou different trees, male flowers much crowded, stamens 6-10, generally 8, a small 

 rudiment of an ovary in the middle of the disk. Hennatht'odite, flowers more laxly arranged, ovary ovoid gradually attenuated into a 

 short style 3 celled, cells 1 ovuled, ovules erect, stigma 3 lobed, fruit dry size of a small nut smooth and unarmed, or furnished with a 

 few prickles, aril succulent and edible. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 277. •//&-• 



This handsome tree is very abundant throughout the Madras Presidency, Bombay, Bengal and Ceylon, ascending the mountains 

 up to about 3,000 feet, but a'ways confined, to the dry forests. It flowers early in the hot season, it is one of our most valuable unreserved timbers, 

 and the wood is much prised, in some districts ; it is reddish in color, very hard and heavy, and makes excellent crushers for sugar and od mills, 

 and is in use for building and a variety of purposes. The common Tamil name is Puva, and the Teligu Pv.ska, on the Anamallays it is called 

 Puvatti by the Kaders, and in Ganarese it is called Chalola and K Akota, in Ceylon Cong, and in Bengal Gosa?n. The fruit ripens in May, and 

 ike pulpy aril is a very agreeable acid ; an oil is expressed from the seed and used for burning, and a quantity of lac is produced on the young 

 branches. The fruit is sometimes quite smooth though often armed with prickles, which is evidently caused by some insect. 



The figure represents a flowering branch of a male tree: — lis a young male flower, stamens not fully developed; 2, the disk and stamen^ 

 of male flower, calyx removed ; 3, a branch ofhermat'^odite ftowers; 4, an hermalhrodite flower. 



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