AGLAIA ROXBURGHIANA. (Nat. ord. Meliaceae.) 



For Gen. Cbar. see under " Meliaceae" in the Manual. 



-A-GLAIA JuvOXBURGHIANA. (WA.) A large tree polygamous, all the young parts more or less scurfy with reddish scales, 

 leaves unequally pinnate 6 inches to 1 foot long, leaflets opposite or alternate 2-4 pair with an odd one, always more or less lanceolate 

 but sometimes obovato-lanceolate to obovate spathulate, quite entire, paler beneath, 2-5 inches long by 1-1 J- broad, petiolules 2-6 lines 

 long, panicles axillary all more or less scurfy from much shorter to longer than the leaves, generally longer and more compound in the 

 male, and shortened in the fertile, flowers very small geuerally a little larger in the fertile, pedicels 1-3 lines long, calyx 5 fid scaly or 

 glabrous and often ciliate, petals 5 often scaly on the outside when young, staminal tube subglobose from nearly entire to 5 toothed 

 or lobed, anthers 5 sessile (but the tube immediately below each anther is often more or less thickened and gives the appearance of 

 there being a regular filament) quite included or their apices slightly protruded above the tube, fruit from nearly globose to pear- 

 shaped. — Milnea Eoxburghiana, WA. Prod- p. 119. M-Hneaapiocarpaj Tlvw?En. PL'J&y.p. 60. 



Very common throughout the ghat forests on the western side of Madras Presidency up to 4,000 feet, and in parts of Mysore, <&c, and in 

 Ceylon ; it is very variable in the shape of the leaves and fruit and amount of pubescence, the timber is strong and useful for building, the tree 



generally flowers in March and April, but I have also seen it in flower at other seasons. Fig A represents a common form fa branch of the fertile 

 tree with dissection of flowers ofthemale tree). B is a variety fiom the Tinnevelly hills (Atlraymallay ghat) a male tree with dissections of the 



flowers, this variety has the leaves obovate-spathulate, the dissections are o.U from male flowers, but the female flower only differs in having a 



fertile ovary. 



One variety or species in my Herbarium, a large tiee from South Canara which 1 refer doubtfully to this species, has the leaves about 

 2 feet long and the leaflets ovate-lanceolate from a broad base 7 inches long, male panicles nearly as long as the leaves and very compound, flowers 

 in no way differing from those of Roxbwghiana ( fig. A J, fertile flowers and fruit not seen. 



Fig A is a branch of a fertile tree in young bud and young fruit, and dissections of male flowers fall from the Annamallays), Figure 

 B is a male tree and dissections of the flowers (from South Tinnevelly. J 



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