78 



25.# MELIACE^. 



[A moor a. 



lines in the spring wood. Med. I'ays very fine and close. Annual rings 

 visible. Weighs about 61 lbs. to the cub. ft. A strong timber, apparent- 

 ly not much used in N. Kanara. 



3. A. cueculata, Roxb. Cor. Plant. III. 54. t. 258 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 560 ; 

 Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 37 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 55. 



Coasts of Bengal and Barma, Nepal and the Andamans. Parwar 

 gWt, Bombay, Dalz.; not seen by me. Bark thin, grey. Wood red, 

 hard, closed-grained, apt to split. Weighs 44i lbs. to the cub. ft. Gamble. 



4. A. Lawii, Benth. Hook. f. Geu. Plant. 1. 335; Fl. Br. I. 1. 561 ' 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 133. Nemedra Nhnmonii, Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 37. Madrasada, K. ; Buramh^ M. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards ; common on the N. 

 Kanai-a ghats in evergreen forests ; sometimes a fairly large tree with 

 smooth bark. Fl. cold season. Fr. ripe rainy season. 



8. WAL SURA, Roxb, 



Trees. Leaves 1 — 5 -foliate. ; leaflets opposite, entire. Flowers 

 small, in axillary or terminal panicles. Calyx 5-divided, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, free, spreading, imbricate or subvalvate. Filaments 8-1 Q, 

 free or connate into a tube ; anthers 8-10 erect, exserted. Disk 

 usually annular, fleshy. Ovary 2-3-.celled, immersed in the disk ; 

 style short ; stigma, turbinate, capitate ; cells with 2 collateral ovules 

 in each. Fruit a fleshy berry, 1-seeded. Seed enclosed in a fleshy 

 aril, exalbummous. 



W. piscidia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 387 ; Fl. Br. LI. 564 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 56; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 37. Walasura^ wallursi, Yern. 



Western Peninsula from Kanara southwards to Travancore and 

 Ceylon. On the North Kanara and Belgaum ghats in evergreen forests. 

 Fl. Nov. -Dec. Fr. May- June. 



Wood heavy and strong. Bark used to intoxicate fish. Contains much 

 tannin. 



9. HEYNEA, Roxb. 



Trees. Leaves 5-1 1-foliate, imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, entire. 

 Panicles terminal, and axillary, corymbose, long peduncled ; peduncles 

 and pedicils articulate. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-5-fid. 

 Corolla of 4-5 oblong petals. Staminal tube 8-10-fid, divisions linear, 

 bidentate at apex ; anthers between the linear teeth. Disk annular, 

 fleshy. Ovary immersed in the disk, 2-3-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell ; stigma with a thickened ring at the base. Fruit capsular^ 1- cel- 

 led, 2-valved, 1-seeded. Seed enclosed in an arillus, exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons hemispherical thin, white. 



H. trijuga, Roxb. Fl. Ind. IL 390 ; Fl. Br. L 1. 565; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 38 ; Brandis For. FL 70. B. affinis, Juss. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 134. Kora^ kuriya, tural, doddagli madduj K. ; Gundira^ M. j Limbara, 

 Vern. 



