AMOQRA LA.WII. (Nat. ord. Meliacese.) 

 For. Qeu, Char, see letter press to PI. cxxxii. 



AmOORA LaWII. (Wight.) A middling sized tree, all the young parts and the inflorescence scaly with yellowish browa 

 leprous scales, leaves unequally pinnate generally about 8 incb.es each, way, leaflets 2-3 opposite or alternate pair with a terminal odd one, 

 leaflets lanceolate acuminate about 4 inches long by 1| broad, petioles 2-3 lines long, panicles axillary much branched, calyx scaly more 

 or less 4-toothed, petals 4, one of which is rnuch narrower thau the others, stamen tube orbicular subentire or crenated at the apex, 

 anthers 8 rarely only 7, attached by the back near the base to an evident filameut which is adglutinate to the calyx tube and rises from 

 nearly its base, ovary scaly, 3 -celled, cells 1 ovuled, ovules attached to the axis a little above the base, stigmas 3 sessile, fruit (immature) 

 pear-shaped size of a plum iudehisceut? abounding in white resinous juice. — Nimmonia Lawii, Wight. Gal Journ- of Nat. His. vii. 13. 

 Nemedra Nimmonii, Dab, in Bomb. Flora, p. 37. 



A middling sized tree, Bombay and Canara ghat forests, and probub'y elsewhere on our western chain of ghats ; called Boorumb in 

 the Bombay Presidency. 



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