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XXIX. MELIACEiE 



[ Walsura 



or terminal panicles. Calyx 5-fid, petals 5, ovate-oblongj spreading, slightly 

 imbricated or nearly valvate. Eilaments 8 or 10, free or partly connate. 

 Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary 2-3-celled, embedded in the disk, ovnles 2 

 collateral in each cell. Pr. a shortly tomentose berry, 1- rarely 2-seeded, 

 seed without albumen, enclosed in a fleshy arillus. Species 12, Indo-Malayan. 



1. W. piscidia, Roxb. ; Wight, 111. t. 55. Vern. Yerra Vahuht^ Tel, ; 

 Valsura, Tarn. 



A glabrous, generally middle-sized, at times a large tree, with ash-coloured 

 bark and hard reddish-brown wood, tough, made into combs. L. trifoliolate, 

 leaflets 2-3 in. long, filaments broad, flat, hairy inside, slightly connate 



Fia. 65. — Walsura piscidia, Itoxb. "Ft. fl. -J. 



at base. Er. ovoid, bright-yellow. Seed 1, completely enveloped in a white 

 juicy arillus. 



Western Peninsula, on both sides, south of the Goclavery river. !F1. November, 

 December. Ceylon. W. ternata, Boxb. Nortbern Circars and Godavery forests. A 

 small tree, leaves trifoliolate, leaflets coriaceous, sbining, -whitish beneath, lanceolate, 

 fl. milk-white, in axillary panicles shorter tban leaves. 



3. W. villosa, Wall. ; Kurz, E. El. i, 223. Veim. Gijobo^ Burm. 



A moderate-sized tree, leafless in the hot season, branchlets, petioles and 

 inflorescence densely pubescent. Leaflets 2 pair, 2-4 in. long, slightly pube- 

 scent beneath. Eilaments flat, connate J of their length, hairy. 



Common in Lower and Upper Burma, often stunted in Eng forest on poor soil. 5^1., 

 Marcli, April. Coobincliina. 4. W. hypoleuca, Kurz (probably identical with W, oxy- 

 carpa, ISxltz). Lower Bu.rma and Andamans, leaflets 6-8 in., quite glabrous, filaments 

 only connate at base, is united with (8) by Pierre, 1^1. For. Cocbin. t, 364. • 5. W. 

 Caadollei, King. Andamans, leaflets 5, glabrous, pale beneath, 2-4 in., filaments connate 

 J of their length. 6. W. multijuga^ King. Upper Burma (King), Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. Leaflets 3-4 pair, coriaceous, glabrous, dull beneath, 2-5 in., sec. n. 



