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MELIACEiE. 
shallowly or deeply lobed pinnatifidly. Flowers 4-8, in copious sub- 
sessile or short peduncled axillary cymes; pedicels stout, inch 
long. Calyx inch deep, thinly silky, nearly truncate. Petals 4-5, 
lingulate, densely grey-silky on the outside, inch long. Stamens 
8-10, the filaments united in a tube at least half as long as the petals. 
Fruit a globose or pyriform hard tomentose capsule inch thick, 
splitting halfway down into 4-5 valves. 
Mauritius, common in the hill forests. Also Bourbon. JBois Quivi or Cafe Marron. 
A variable plant of which the following forms are figured and described as 
species by Cavanilles. 
1. Q. ovata, Cav. Diss. t. 212. Hill form, with firm obtuse obovate alternate leaves, 
and 3-4 tetramerous flowers in a sessile umbel. 
2. Q. heterophylla , Cav. Diss. t. 213. Like the last, hut some of the leaves entire, 
the others pinnatifid, with 2-3 deep or shallow obtuse lobes on each side. 
3. Q. decandra , Cav. Diss. t. 211. Forest form, with larger alternate acute leaves, 
and 8-12 pentamerous racemose flowers. 
4. Q. oppositifolia, Cav. Diss. t. 214. Forest form, with large subobtuse oblong leaves, 
many opposite, and tetramerous flowers in peduncled cymes. 
2. Q. laciniata, Balf. fil. A small much-branched low shrub, 
glabrous in all its parts. Leaves alternate or opposite, nearly sessile, 
obovate-cuneate, obtuse, f-l inch long, very glossy, strongly veined, 
entire c r shallow ly or deeply pinnatifid with a few erecto-patent obtuse 
lobes. Flowers *2-4 in sessile or nearly sessile cymes in the axils of 
the leaves on pedicels inch long. Calyx discoid, under inch 
broad; teeth 4, short. Bud globose, nearly or quite glabrous. Petals 
4, obovate, -Jy inch long. Stamens 8 ; cup of united filaments short. 
Bodriguez, abundant over the island. Bouton ! Balfour ! Endemic. Bois 
Balais. 
3. Q. filipes, Baker. A small much-branched shrub, glabrous 
throughout, or ultimate branches slightly pilose. Leaves alternate or 
uppermost opposite, short-petioled, obovate, obtuse, cuneate in the 
lower half, entire, firm, bright green, reticulato-venulose, \— f inch long. 
Flowers 2-4 in short peduncled axillary cymes ; pedicels filiform, 
spreading, inch long. Bud oblong, glabrous. Calyx minute, 
glabrous, with 4 deltoid teeth. Petals 4, oblong, inch long, wide- 
spread in the expanded flower. Stamens 8, the cup of the joined 
filaments very short. Q. trichopoda, Baill. Adans. xi. 255? 
Mauritius on the Pouce, Gardner ! Ayres ! Endemic., 
# Carapa molvccensis , Lam. ; DC. Prod. i. 626 (Xylocarpus Grana- 
ium, Koen.), a common plant on muddy shores from East Tropical 
Africa to Australia, has been gathered by Mr. Horne in the Seychelles at 
St. Annes Bay, Praslin, where it is called Manglier. It is a glabrous tree 
30-40 feet high, with alternate equally pinnate leaves, 1-2-jugate large 
sessile obovate-oblong entire obtuse coriaceous leaflets, few flowers in 
lax axillary panicles shorter than the leaves, 4-5-merous calyx and 
corolla, the latter } inch long, 8-10 anthers inside a toothed tube, 
ldrge peltate stigma, and a 4-5-celled capsular fruit as large as a child’s 
head finally dehiscing loculicidallv, with few very large angular seeds 
with a thick corky testa. 
