No. 101 
Awoora nitidula, Benth. 
A Bog Onion. 
(Family MELIACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Amoora , Boxb., PI. Coromandel , iii, 54, t. 258 
(1819). 
Flowers. —Polygamous. 
Calyx. —3- to 5-toothed or lobed. 
Petals. —3 to 5, imbricate in the bud, free from the staminal tube. 
Staminal tube. —Urceolate or nearly globular, truncate or crenate; anthers within the tube, 
twice as many as petals. 
Disc .—None, besides the thickened base of the ovary. 
Ovary .—3- to 5-celled or rarely 2-celled, with 1 or 2 superposed ovules in each cell; style short or 
long, with a disc-like stigma. 
Capsule.— Obovoid or globular, coriaceous or hard, opening loculicidally in 3 to 5 valves (or 
sometimes indehiscent ?). 
Seeds. —Solitary in each cell, enclosed in a fleshy arillus (or sometimes without an arillus ?). 
Trees. 
Leaves. —Pinnate, with entire leaflets. 
Flowers .—Small, but usually larger than in Aglaia. (B.F1. i, 383.) 
Botanical description.— Species, A. nitidula , Benth., B.E1. i, 383 (1863). 
A tall tree, quite glabrous. 
Leaflets. — 2 or 4, opposite, without any tei - minal odd one, elliptical oblong, 3 to 4 inches long, or 
sometimes more, obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, somewhat coriaceous and shining, 
narrowed at the base, the common petiole often slightly dilated towards the end. 
Panicles. —Axillary, loose, but shorter than the leaves. 
Calyx. —Very short, with 5 short teeth or lobes. 
Petals. —5, about 2 lines long, glabrous or minutely ciliate. 
Staminal tube. —Broadly urceolate; anthers 10; the tips slightly protruding. 
Ovary. —2- or 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 
Fruit. —Obovoid, hard, and almost woody; narrowed almost into a stipes at the base ; 2-or 
3-celled. 
Seeds. —Nearly globular, laterally attached near the top, apparently without any arillus. 
(B.F1. i, 383.) 
There is only one species in Australia, but at least a dozen in India and 
Malaysia. Descriptions of the timbers of four of them will be found in Gamble’s 
“ Manual of Indian Timbers ” (2nd Edition). 
