HEYNEA AFF1NIS. (Nat. ord. Meliaceae.) 



•O.EYNEA. Eoxb. — GEN. CHAR. Calyx short, 4-5 cleft imbricate, petals 4-5 oblong erect imbricate, staminal-tube deeply 8-10 cleft, divisions 

 linear sharply 2-toothed at the apex and each bearing an anther between the teeth, anthers slightly exserted, disk fleshy annular, ovary immersed in the 

 disk depressed, 2-3 celled, style short thickened upwards and clubbed at the apex, stigma 2-3 toothed, cells of the ovary 2 ovnled, ovules pendulous 

 from near the apex of the axis, collateral. Capsule fleshy 1 celled 2 valved, 1 seeded, seed arillate, radicle superior. Trees or shrubs, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, leaves unequally pinnate, leaflets opposite, panicles axillary long peduncled, corymbose, flowers small. 



HliYNEA. AFFINIS. (Juss.) A middling sized tree, glabrous, leaves unequally pinnate 12-20 inches long by 10-16 

 broad, leaflets 3-4 opposite pair with, a terminal long peduncled odd leaflet, glabrous above, beneath white and glaucous, but also 

 glabrous except a few distant white hairs on the costa and over the surface (only visible with a lens), obliquely ovate to oblong very 

 unequal at the base and ending in a long terminal very sudden acumination, 4-8 inches long by 2|-3J broad, the parallel primary veins 

 very prominent beneath, petioles from less than | to f inch long (terminal one ] | inches,) panicles axillary about §rds the length of 

 the leaves, corymbosely branched at the apex of the long glabrous peduncle, branches minutely pubescent and furnished with minute 

 hairy bracteoles at the branchlets, flowers white about 2 lines long, calyx corol and staminal-tube pubescent, anthers yellow obtusely 

 apiculate. fruit oblong or roundish about 6 lines long by 5 broad bursting when ripe into 2 valves disclosing the solitary seed surround- 

 ed by its aril. Ad.de Juss. in Mem. Mus. 19. Heynea trijuga, lloxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 390 1 



A very ornamental tree, common in many localities on the western mountains of the Madras Presidency, from 2000 feet upwards 

 (Cenoor 6000 feet, abundant, Bolampaity valley 3000 feet, very abundant.) 



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