192 MO RINGED. [Moeinga. 



XLII.— MORINGE^. 



Deciduous trees with soft wood ; leaves alternate, odd-pinnate or 

 2- 3 -pinnate ; leafiets opposite, quite entire, glandular at the base, 

 caducous. Panicles axillary. Flowers irregalar, 2-sexual. Calyx 

 cnp-shaped, 5- cleft ; segments unequal, peialoid, deciduous from above 

 the base, imbricate. Petals 5, unequal. Fertile stamens 5, inserted 

 on the edge of the disk, declinaie, opposite the petals and alternating 

 witL 5 antherless filaments ; anthers dorsifixed, 1-celled. Disk 

 lining the calyx-tube. Ovary stipitate, l-c.-lled ; style slender, 

 tubnlar ; stigma perforated ; ovules many, in 2 series, on 3 parietal 

 placentas. Capsule elongate, beaked, 3-6-angled, 1-celled, loculi- 

 cidally 3-valved, corky within. Seeds many, winged or not, in pits 

 of the valves, testa corky, albumen 0. — Species 3, natives of W. Asia 

 and N. Africa. 



An order of very doubtful affinity, having been referrad by various 

 authors to near Eesedacece, also to GapparideoB, Melianthece, Violaceos, 

 PolygaiaceoB, LegumiiioscB and Bignoniacem. 



Moringa, Burm. FI. Brit. Ind. ii, 45. 



Characters of the order. 



Leaves usually 3-pinnate, flowers white 1. M. pterygosperma. 

 Leaves 2-pinnate, flowers yellowish 



streaked with pink . . . 2. M. concanensis. 



1. M. pterygosperma. Gcertn. Fruct. ii, 314; W. Sf A. Prod. 178 : 

 Boyle m. 180 ; D. Sf G. Bomh. Fl. 314 ; Brand. For. Fl. 129; F. B. I. ii, 45; 

 Wati E. D. Hyperanthera Moringa, Vahl ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind ii, 368. Vera.' 

 Sanjna. (Horse-radish tree.) 



A small tree with corky bark, wood soft, root pungent, young parts to- 

 mentose. Leavt.s 1-2 ft., usually 3-pinnate ; petiole slender, sheathing at 

 the base ; pinnge 1-6 pairs ; leaflets 6-9 pairs i-f in., opposite, elliptic 

 ovate or obovate, pale beneath, nerves obscure ; glands linear, hairy. 

 Panicles spreading, bracts linear. Flowers pedicelied, 1 in. in diam., 

 white, honey-scented. Sepals linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Petals narrowly 

 spathulate Fertile Jil a me a rs villous at the base. Ovary bairy. Capsule 

 9-20 in., pendulous, 9-ribbed. Seeds about 1 in. long, trigonous, winged 

 at the angles. 



