LANSIUM ANA M ALLAY ANUM. (Nat. ord: Meliaceje.) 



LAKSIUM. Rumph. — GEN. CHAR. Flowers dioecious, sepals 5 rounded imbricate, petals 5 rounded connivent imbricate, staminal tube 

 globose creuulate at the mouth, anthers 10 alternately shorter, the apices of the 5 longer ones just exserted, disk inconspicuous, ovary globose 3-5 celled, 

 style very short thick, stigma truncate 3-5 lobed or radiate, ovules 1-2 in each cell fixed to the axis, berry with a rind 5-celled or by abortion 1-4 celled 

 indehiscent, cells 1-2 seeded. Seed solitary or twin collateral oblong, hilum ventral, aril pulpy covering the whole seed, testa coriaceous, cotyledons 

 transverse, radicle superior. Trees, leaves unequally pinnate, flowers small in axillary racemes or panicles or branched spikes, berry yellow or red, aril 

 sometimes edible. — Sphserosacme, Wall, in part. 



LANSIUM AnAMALLAYANUM. (Bedd.) A good sized tree, leaves 6-9 inches long unequally pinnate, glabrous, 

 leaflets 3-5 elliptic obtusely acuminate, attenuated at the base, eutire, 3-4 J inches long by l|-2 broad, furnished with hairy glands 

 in the axils of the veins beneath, petiolules about ^ an inch long, flowers in axillary panicled spikes, peduncle very short 1-2 lines 

 long, brauchlets 2-3 inches long, flowers pentamerous hermathrodite (always 1) yellow, about 2 lines in diameter, sepals imbricate 

 rounded ciliate, with 1-2 minute bracts at the base, petals about twice as large, imbricate, rounded at the apex, stamen-tube obsoletely 

 5 cleft, anthers 10 alternately shorter, the 5 longer ones just appearing above the apex of the tube, filaments adglutinate to the tube 

 and not separable with the anther, ovary densely strigose sessile on a very small disk, 3 lobed 3 celled, ovules 1 in each cell attached 

 to the axis near the base (or 2 ovules in each cell ?) style very short or obsolete, stigma large obtusely 3 lobed, fruit oblong with 

 a dry greyish rind size of a grape, 2 celled, 2 seeded, seed completely covered with a very succulent aril. Bedd in Linn. 

 Trans, vol. xiv., and Icones Plant. Indice tab. civ. 



/ formerly described the ovaiy cells as 2 ovuled, though I only figured them as 1 ovuled ; in dissecting several flowers 1 



now find only 1 ovule in each cell, but it probably varies. 



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A handsome tree, common in the dense moist forest of the Anamallays (particularly in the Anagoondy shola) at an elevation of about 

 2000 feet, also in Malabar (foot of the Nilgiris) ; it flowers early in April, and the fruit ripens in July, the succulent aril in the latter is greedily 

 eaten by ironkeys and birds ; it is the only species of the genus found in the Peninsula, one species occurs in the Himalayas and a third in Jav.x. 



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