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25. MELIACEiE. 



\_Melia, 



some tree of rapid growth. Bark dark-brown, thin, rongh, ecalj, 

 exfoliating in thin, narrow strips, with broad, shallow, longitudinal 

 cracks; inner bark reddish Sapwood grey; heartwood reddish, soft, 

 lustrous. Pores large, simple or divided. Medullary rays mediara 

 breadth, light red, not close together. Weighs 2G to 33 lbs. to the cub. 

 ft. Used for building purposes in Southern India. Gamble says " will 

 probably be found useful for tea boxes and similar purposes and the tree 

 should be cultivated for its rapid growth." Used for making musical 

 instruments in N. K^nara (Mundgod). 



3. CIPADESSA, Blume. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers subglobose, 

 in axillary peduncled panicles. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 

 5, oblong, spreading, valvate in bud. Staminal tube deeply 10-lobed, 

 lobes linear, bifid ; anthers short, subapiculate. Disk cup-shaped, 

 adnate to the base of the staminal tube. Ovary 5-celled ; ovules 2, 

 collateral^ pendulous in each cell ; style short ; stigma clavate, 

 capitate. Fruit a slightly fleshy drupe, .5-ribbed, 5-celled ; cells 1-2- 

 seeded. Seeds albuminous ; embryo sub-foliaceous. 



C. fruticosa, Blume Bijd. 162 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 545. Mallea Bothii, Adr. 

 Juss. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 37 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 54. Nal hila, H. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan to Ceylon in moist forests; 

 ascend to 4000 feet on the Bababuden Hills in Mysore. Dry parts of 

 the Belgaum District. "Common on the Katruj Ghdt, near Poena;"" 

 Grab, Fl, & Fr. during the rainy season and apparently at other times 

 throughout the year. Wood only used for fuel. 



4. DYSOXYLUM, Blume, 



Trees. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets entire^ opposite, subopposite or 

 alternate, oblique at the base, coriaceous. Flowers hermaphrodite^ in 

 panicles. Calyx 4-5-fid, caducous. Petals 4-5, oblong, spreading^. 

 Staminal tube cylindrical ; anthers short, 6-10, included or half • 

 exserted. Disk tubular, equal to or twice as long as the ovary. 

 Ovary 3-4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style equalling the stamina! 

 tube. Capsule 1-4-celled, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds arillate or 0^ 

 exalbuminous. 



Leaflets witbout glands in the nerve-axils. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, \ the length of the flower, subentire. 



Fruit smooth, reddish- brown ... ... 1. D. hinectariferum. 



Leaflets glandular in the nerve-axils. Calyx short, 

 deeply 4-5 divided. Fruit verrucose, tubercled, 

 bright yellow ... ... ... 2. !>• glandulosum, 



1. D. binectariferum, Hook, f. ex Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XXV. 212 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 546. D. maGrocarpum, Bedd. Fl, Sylv. 150. 

 Epicharis exarillata, Arn. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 87. Quarea 

 I '^icectarifera, Boxb. Fl. Ind. II. 240 j Graham Cat. Bo. Pi. 31. Yerindi^ 

 devdaru, Vern. 



