Dymxylum] XXIX. MBLIACE.E 139 



glabrous, sliallow-cupiilar indistinctly 5-clentate, petals linear, glabrous, staminal tube 

 glabrous, entire at mouth, anthers 10 glabrous, included, dibk tubular, longer than 

 ovary, ciliate at mouth, fruit green when ripe, 3 in. diani., smooth, heeds glossy, scarlet. 



6. CHISOCHETON, Bl. ; M. Brit. Ind. i. 550 (SduzocJufon, Kurz, 



r. Fl i. 215). 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. L. mostly paripinnate, petiole produced be- 

 yond the last pair, bearing abortive leaflets. Leaflets entire, opposite or nearly 

 opposite, more or less oblique. FL polygamous, as a rule in divaricate^ 

 branched, generally supra-axillary, panicles. Anthers linear. Disk generally 

 short and fleshy. Ovary 2-4:-celled, ovules 1 in each cell, style long, filiform. 

 Species 22, Indo-Malayan. 



1. C. paniculatus, Hiern. — Syn. Gicarea pcmiculata^^oxh.; Wight, Ic. 

 t. 146, Baurl phcd^ Xep. ; Dmgarl^ Mechi. 



A large tree, younger leaves and inflorescence hairy. L. up to 3 ft. long, 

 leaflets 5-12 pair, 4-10 in. long, pale beneath. Panicles usually longer than 

 leaves. Fl. linear, i-J in. Capsule globose, 1-2 in. diam., oran£»'e-red. 

 Seeds 8-4, aril white, fleshy, with crenate margin. 



Sikkim, Assam, Kliasi hillb. Tavoy, Fr. C. S. 



2. C. grandiflorus, Kurz, F. FL i. 216. 



Attains 50 ft. Common petiole and underside of leaves densely and softly 

 pubescent, leaflets 6-8 in. long, 4-6 pair, sometimes with an odd one. FL \ in. 

 long, nearly sessile, silky-tomentose, panicles slender, on long peduncles. 

 Capsule yellow, pear-shaped, 3-valved and 3~lobed, 1^- in. long, pericarp thick 

 coriaceous, seeds enclosed in an orange-coloui*ed arillus. 



Martaban and Tenabserim, Andamans. Fr. March, April. 8. 0. dysoxylifolius, Kurz ; 



Thoungyeen forestb, entirely glabrous except the pubescent jjanicles, leafletb 5-7 pair, 

 4-10 in. long, sec. n. prominent beneath. Fl. -J in. long, hexamerous, staminal tube 

 densely haii'y outside, 6-eleft at the summit, anthers alternating with the lobes. 4. 

 0. divergens, Blume {(K fra(jrans, Hiern); Malay Peninsula, reported by Wallieh from 

 Burma, is nearly glabrous, leaflets 4-12 pair, membranous, 2-6 in., fl. | in., polygamous, 

 fr. pear-sha|)ed, minutely tomentose, 1^ in. diam., 2-celled. 5. C. costatus, Hiern; 

 Cachar, fi. unlvno'v\n, hence the genus uncertain, leaflets 10-11, alternate, pale olive and 

 velvety beneath, sec. n. prominent, fr. 2-3-lobed and celled, orange, 1-lJ in. long. 



Munronia Walliclaii, Wight (31. neilgherrica, Wight 111. t. 54 j Turrcea p'mnata^ Wall. 

 PI. As. Bar. t. 119) ; Sikkim to SjOOO ft., Khasi hills, Nilgiris, a shrub with impari- 

 pinnate leaves, leaflets opposite, 3-4 pair, lanceolate, 1-5 in., fl. 1-1 J in. long, white or 

 pink, hairy outside, crowded at the ends of branches, staminal tube with 10 anthers 

 alternating with sn.bulate teeth. Disk membranous, tubular, sheathing ovary and 

 base of style. Ovary 5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Capsule 5-lobed, 

 hairy. 



7. AZADIRACHTA, Adr. Juss. ; Trimen Handb. Ceylon i. 244. 



A. indica, A. Juss. (the only species). — Syn. Melia AzacUrachta^ Linn. ; 

 Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 14 ; M. indica, Brandis F. M. G7. The Keevt or Margoza 

 tree, Yern. iTmjHind. ; Tama^ Tamaka^'BMTm,] Vejja^Tel,; OUe-deviijKB.n, 



A large glabrous evergreen tree, heartwood red, hard. Leaflets 7-9 pair, 

 often alternate, obliquely falcate-lanceolate, serrate, the odd one often 

 wanting. F'l. white, strongly honey-bcented, pentamerous, in axillary panicles 

 shorter than leaf. Staminal tube 10-dentate, anthers inserted within the tube 

 opposite its teeth. Drupe the size of an olive, yellow, afterwards purple, 

 kernel cartilaginous, 1-celled 1-seeded, cotyledons plane-convex^ fleshy, notched 

 at base, albumen 0. 



Wild in the dry region of the Irawadi valley from Prome upwards. Cultivated and 

 naturalized throughout India, in_ the Punjab to the Jhelum, rare west of the Sutlej. 

 Fl. H. S. 



