OARAPA MOLUCCENSIS. (Nat. ord. Meliacese.) 



CARAPA. Aubl.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx small, 4 or 5 lobed. Petals 4 or 5 free, imbricate in the bud. Staminal tube ureeolate, crenate or lobed, 

 authors 8 or 10, within the summit. Disk thick surrounding the ovary. Ovary 4 to 5-celled, with 2 to 6 ovules in each cell, style short, with a large 

 disk-like stigma. Capsule globular or ovoid, fleshy or woody, the dissepiments often disappearing. Seeds several in a compact maBs round the remains 

 of the central axis, large, thick, with a ventral hilum ; testa spongry ; cotyledons superposed often united ; radicle dorsal. Maritime [trees. Leaves pin- 

 nate with eutire leaflets. Pauicles axillary. — Xylocarpus, Kan. ; — Benth. Fl. Aust. 1. p. 386. Persoonia, Willd. Sp. Pi. ii. 331. Touloucouna and Racapa, 

 Ram Synops. 123. 



CARA.PA MoLUCCENSIS. (Lam.) A tree glabrous in all its parts. Leaflets 4, rarely 2 or 6, opposite, ovate, obtuse, 

 shortly acuminate or rarely acute, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 inches long, somewhat coriaceous, reticulate. Panicles short, loose, and few 

 flowered, sometimes reduced to simple racemes or with few divaricate branches. Ca]y x small, irregularly lobed. Petals 4 or rarely 5, 

 21 to 3 lines long. Staminal tube crenate or splitting into short lobes. Ovary very small, in the centre of a large thick depressed 

 disk, Ovules 2, 3, or 4 iu each cell, excessively minute. Fruit often 3 or 4 inches diameter, irregularly globular. Seeds'usually 4 to 

 6, large irregularly shaped, closely packed ; testa very thick, of a hard spongy consistence. — Xylocarpus granatum, Keen ; — Willd. 

 Spec. PL ii. 328 ;— Benth. Fl. Aust. 1. p. 387. 



This tree is a native of the coast in Malabar, Ceylon and in theSunderbvnds, and is also found in Africa, Australia, Madagascar and 

 the Malay Archipelago ; in Tamil it is called Kandalanga, and in Ceylon Kadul. The drawing and dissections are communcialed ly Br. Thwaites. 



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