1^2 XXIX. MELIACEJ^ [Amoom 



tube at its base. Fruit globose, yellow when ripe, 1-1.^ in. diam., pericarp 

 coriaceous 3-valved. Seed one, oblons; with a scarlet arilkis. 



Satara 



2. A. cucullata, Hoxb. Gorom. PL t. 258. Vern. Amur, Latmi, Sun- 

 drib. ; Thitm\ Burm. 



A o-labrous, middle-sized, at times a large tree, heart wood led. Leaflets 

 2-4 pair, falcate, very oblique at the base, 3-5 in. long : secondary nerves 

 indistinct. M. pedicellate, c? in panicles, c? in short few fld. supra-axillary 

 racemes. Anthers 6. Fruit globose, 2} in. diam., pericarp leathery, 3-valved. 

 Seeds 3 with an orange-coloured arillus" 



Ivha&i hills, Sundriban, Burma, VJ. E. S. 0. S. 3. A. Wallicliii, Iving.— Syn. .i- 

 ^pedaUJis, Fl. B. Ind. i. 561 ; Kiirz, F. Fl. i. 221, Assam, Burma and Andamaiib, lias 

 male and female flowers on the same panicles, 10 anthers, leaflets 5-6 pair, pale beneath. 

 4. A. caJiarana, Beiith. et Hook , Western Ghats from the Xonkan south^\aidb. Leafletb 

 ^~3 pair, sometimeb alternate, calyx ciip-shapecl, 4-5-toothecl, petals 3, sometimeb 4, 

 anthers 6, at times 7. 



B. Leaflets alternate. 



5. A. Lawii, Bedd. Fl. S^dv. t.l33 (Bumonh, Mar.), evergreen forests on the \\est side of 

 the Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. Leaflets 3-5, fl. a;eneially tetramerous, 

 ovary 3-celled. 6. A. cMttagonga, Hiern, Bhutan, Upper Asbam, Chittagong, Pegu! 

 Leaflets S-7, calyx cup-shaped, 3-toothed, anthers 6, ovary 2-celled. King in As. Soc 

 Beng. vol. 64 (1895) 51 states, that this is an Aglaia. 6. A. Manii, King MSS., Soutli 

 Andaman. Leaflets 11-15, fertile fl. in long axillary panicles. 



11. AGLAIA, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 554. 



Evergreen trees, leaves imparipinnate. Fl. polygamous, small, globose, 

 paniculate, as a rule pentamerous, petals imbricate, staminal tube more or less 

 globose, anthers usually 5, rarely more, included or half exserted. Disk in- 

 conspicuous, stigma sessile or nearly so. Fr. indehiscent, 1-2-celled, seeds 1 

 or 2j testa often with a fleshy outer layer, resembling an arillus. Species 7, 

 Indo-Malayan region, China, Polynesia. 



A. Shoots and inflorescence scaly, adult leaves glabrous, leaflets 1-4 pair. 



1. A. odoratissima, Blume ; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 64 (1895) 67. 

 Syn. A, RoxlmrgUana, Miq..; Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 130; SlUnea RoxhiirgMi, 

 Wight, Ic. t. 166. Vern. Yewa Adiiga, Kan., TeL ; Chokala, Tarn. 



A large tree (near the coast in Kanara a shrub), wood bright red, hard, very 

 tough, youngest shoots and inflorescence clothed with round peltate scales. 

 Leaflets glabrous, opposite, 1-B pair, 2-5 in. long, pale beneath, naked part 

 of common petiole as long as the upper portion. Fr. buff-coloured, velvety, | in. 

 diam. Seeds ovoid, surrounded with a white thick slightly acid edible pulp, 

 embryo green. 



Western Peninsula, the nortW on the west and Midnapore on the 



east side. FL E.S., C.S. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. 2. A, oligopHyUa, 

 Miq. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. Leaflets 1-2 pair. Pr globose sup- 

 ported by the remains of persistent calyx. 3. A. fusca, King. South Andaman. 

 Leaflets 2-3 pair PL tetramerous. 4. A. glaucescens, King. South Andaman, Leaflets 

 ^-^ pair. Panicles as long as leaves. PL 4- or 5-merous. 5. A. Khasiaaa Hiern Khasi 

 hills. Leaflets 1-2 pair, panicles mucb shorter than leaves, ferrugineous PI 

 H ^.^* -, ^' ^ ^f^^"^^ Hiern. Silhet. Leaflets opposite 3-4 pair, ellipticdanceolate', 

 2-4 m. long. Fl. small m short panicles. 7. A. panicnlata. Kur^, P. PL i. 219 Pe^ii 

 Yoma. ^Leaflets alternate, 2 pair, 4-9 in. long. PL minute in ample rusty scaly tomen- 

 tose panicles, j j 



