No. 83. 
Dysoxylon Fraseranum, Benth. 
(Syn.: D. Lessertianum, Benth.). 
The Rosewood. 
(Family MELIACE^E.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Dysoxylon, Blume. 
Calyx. —Small, 4- or 5-toothed, or divided into 4 or 5 sepals. 
Petals. —4 or 5, free or adnate to the staminal tube, spreading at the top. 
Staminal tube. —Truncate or 8- or 10-toothed. 
Anthers .-—8 or 10, within the summit. 
. Disc. —Tubular, as long as or usually much longer than the ovary. 
Ovary. — 3- to 5-celled ; style elongated. 
Sti yma. —Disclike. 
Ovules. —2 in each cell, or rarely solitary. 
Capsule. —Globular or pear-shaped, 1- to 5-celled, opening loculicidally into 2 to 5 thickly coriaceous 
valves. 
Seeds. —With or rarely without an arillus, oblong, with a broad ventral hilum. 
Testa. —Coriaceous. 
Albumen. —None. 
Cotyledons. —Large. Trees, often foetid. 
Leaves. —Pinnate, leaflets opposite or alternate in the same species, entire, often oblique. 
Panicles. —Axillary, loose, but often small. 
Flowers. —Not very small. 
Botanical description.— Species, D. Fraseranum, Benth., B.P1. i, 381 (1863). 
A tree of 80 to 130 feet, the young leaves and shoots slightly pubescent, glabrous when full- 
grown. 
Leaflets 5 to 9, oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, 3 to 6 in. long, narrowed and equal at 
the base, bearing occasionally tufts of hair in the axils of the principal veins underneath. 
Panicles in the upper axils short, loose, divaricately branched, slightly pubescent. 
Calyx cupular, about 1 line long, shortly and broadly 4-lobed. 
Petals 4, about 3 lines long, nearly glabrous, adnate to the staminal tube to about half tlnir 
length. 
Staminal tube 8-toothed, glabrous outside. 
Disc broadly tubular, rather longer than the ovary. 
Ovary hirsute, 3-celled, with 2 ovules in. each cell. 
Fruit not seen. 
