AMOOEA ROHITUKA. (Nat. ord. Meliaceee.) 



-P or Gen. Char, see under this genus in the Manual. 



AMOORA ROHITUKA. (Roxb.) A small or middling sized tree, polygamous, trunk pretty straight, bark smooth 

 ash colored, leaves alternate unequally pinnate 1-2 feet long, leaflets 4-8 pair opposite obliquely oblong glabrous shortly pointed at 

 the apex 3-6 inches long by 2-2f broad, petiole less than \ an inch long slightly pubescent when young at length glabrous 

 inflorescence axillary, panicled on the male tree, and spiked on the fertile. Male panicles axillary or a little above the axils somewhat 

 drooping very large and much branched, but shorter than the leaves, flowers numerous, pedicels 2-3 lines long, calyx 5 parted 

 imbricate, petals 3 oval to orbicular concave imbricate, stamen-tube globular bluntly 3 lobed at the apex, anthers 6 sessile included, 

 or with the apices just appearing at the mouth of the tube attached by the centre of their back to the tube, a small rudiment of 

 an ovary hairy at the base and 3 lobed at the apex, fertile spikes \ or a little more than half the length of the leaves, flowers as 

 in the male except that they contain a fertile ovary which is 3 celled with 2 ovules in each cell superposed and attached to the 

 middle of the axis, stigma subsessile 3 lobed, lobes emarginate, capsule round reddish 1 \ inches in diameter a little attenuated at the 

 base, 3 celled 3 valved opening from the apex, seed oblong with a brown testa enclosed completely in a fleshy scarlet aril. — Andersonia 

 Rohituka, Roxb. Fl. hid. ii. 213. 



This tree is met with sparingly throughout the Western ghat forests of the Madras Presidency up to 3500 feel elevation in Bengal 

 and in Ceylon ( where it is called Hingoot), it is rather common in the Anamallays, an oil is extracted from the seed in Bengal. The specimen 

 figured and the dissections are all from a male tree gathered in the Anamallay kills. 



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