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25. MELIACE^. 



5. AGLAIA,Lour. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate or tnfoliate; scaly or pubescent. 

 Powers polygamo-dioecious, minute, subglobose^ paniculate. Calyx 

 5-lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Petals 5, concave, imbricated. 

 Staminal tube urceolate or subglobose, 5-tootbedat the apex or entire ; 

 anthers 5, erect, included or half ex sorted. Disk minute. Ovary 

 1-3-celled ; style very short ; cells l-2.ovuled. Fruit a dry berry^ 1-2- 

 celled and seeded. Seeds with a fleshy^ arillate covering. 



A large tree. Panicles shorter than the leaves. 

 Fruit sub-globose, top depressed, ferruginous 



lepldote ... ... ... 1. A. Eoxhvrghiana. 



A shrub. Panicles often longer than the leaves. 



Fruit ovoid, yellow-lepidote ... ... 2. A. lUtoralis. 



1. A. Roxburghiana, JMiq. Ann. Mns. Ludg-Bat. IV. 41 ; Pi. Br. I. 

 1. 555 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, t. 130. Milnea Roxburghiana, Wgt. Ic. 166. 



Western PeniDSula fi'om the Konkan southwards ascending to 600O 

 ft. in Ceylon, Singapore, Burma and the Malay Peninsula. In the 

 evergreen forests of the ghdts of North K^nara from Ainshi southwards. 

 Fl. Nov.- Dec. Fr, ripe May- July. A large tree with smooth grey 

 bark. Wood light, brownish yellow, very soft, lustrous. Pores medium 

 sized, numerous. Med. rays broad and fine, light cloured. Weighs 

 about 30 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



2. A. littoralis, Talb. sp. nov. Syst. List of Trees &c., p. 40. {A, 



Uoxhurghiana, Miq. var.) 



A shrub; sometimes a small tree. Leaves 5-foliafce, 3-7 in. ; leaflets 

 ovate or obovate, obtuse, thinly coriaceous ; lateral nerves about 10 pairs ; 

 blade l"0-4'5 by •75-2 in., petiolules short MS in. Flowers in axillary, 

 many-flowered, yellow panicles, often longer than the leaves, smaller and 

 more shortly pedicelled than those of A. Roxburghiana, Miq. Fruit ovoid, 

 •5 in. long, 2-seeded. Seeds surrounded by a thick, white, transparent, 

 veined, arillate pulp; epicarp thin, leathery, lepidote of a bright yellow 

 colour ; radicle pilose. 



Very common along the coasts of the Konkan and N. Kdnara and 

 probably extending further south. Flowers and fruits during the rainy 

 and cold seasons. Differs from A. Eoxhicrghiana, Miq., in habit, shape 

 of leaves and distinct fruit. I do nob think it can fairly be considered 

 a variety of A. Boxburgliiana^ Miq., which is the opinion of Dr. Stapf 

 at Kew. Beddome in the Fl. Syl., p. 55, mentions a small shrub from 

 the S. Kanara plains which he is inclined to consider distinct. It may 

 be the above species. 



6. LANSIUM, Rumph. 



Trees. Leaves cddpiunate. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, 5-merous, 

 in axillary panicles or racemes. Sepals and petals rounded, imbricat- 

 ed. Staminal tube globose, crenulatedj anthers 10^ in 2 ro\ys. 



