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1895.] Gr. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ovate, with truncate bases and sub-acute apices, concave, densely ad- 
pressed-pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube much shorter 
than the petals, cylindric, rather fleshy, glabrous, the mouth with 8 
broad shallow emarginate teeth : anthers 8, oblong, longer than the 
tube, much exserted. Disc (if any) very small. Ovary broadly ovoid, 
tapering into the short thick style which is sparsely pilose towards 
the base: stigma thick, discoid, depressed in the centre. Fruit unknown. 
Perak: King’s Collector, No. 10755. 
The disc in this plant, if present at all, must be very small, for 
I cannot detect it in the bud. In spite of this I refer it to Dysoxylum , 
of which it has the general facies. The shrubby habit, short thick 
spicate inflorescence, globular flower-buds, and the occasionally per¬ 
forated leaves make this a remarkable and easily recognisable 
plant. 
6. Amoora, Roxb, 
Trees. Leaves usually unequally-pinnate; leaflets oblique, quite 
entire. Flowers in axillary subdioecious panicles, the females 
sometimes spicate or lacemose. Calyx 3- 5-partite or -fid. Petals 3, thick, 
concave, imbricated. Staminal tube sub-globose or campanulate, entire 
or inconspicuously 6-10-crenate ; anthers 3-10, included. Disc obsolete. 
Ovary sessile, short, 3-celled; cells 1-2-ovuled, stigma sessile. Cap¬ 
sule sub-globose, coriaceous, 3-celled and -seeded, loculicidally 3-valved, or 
indehiscent. Seeds in a fleshy aril, with ventral hile.— Distrib. A 
genus of about 25 species occurring only in India and the Malay Archi¬ 
pelago, and also 1 endemic species in Australia. 
The Indian species of Amoora, as this genus is understood by the most recent 
botanical writers, fall into two groups. One of these (the old genus Aphanamixis) is a 
very natural one. In this group the male flowers are in panicles with divergent 
racemose or spicate branches, while the female flowers are in short racemes. The 
flowers of both sexes have a 5-merous calyx, and a 3-merous corolla, 3 or 6 stamens, 
3-celled ovaries and 3-celled loculicidally dehiscent capsular fruits. The other 
group, named Pseudo-Agluiaby M. C. de Candolle, consists of a number of species with 
from 6 to 10 stamens, 3-celled-ovaries, and large stigmas. Some of these have 
3 petals, others have 4 or 5. As regards fruit some of them (e.g., A. cucullata) have 
a 3-celled capsule like that of Aphanamixis : others have fruits which show 
no evidence of dehiscence. In treating this genus, I have excluded all the species 
having more than 3 petals, and I have abandoned dehiscence in the fruit as a diag¬ 
nostic character. In the note under the genus Aglata, I have explained the change 
which I have made in the staminal character of that genus. I may here add that 
Amoora Chittagonga, Hiern, is certainly an Aglaia ; and that Amoora decandra 
Hiern, with its 10 anthers in two rows, and 5-celled ovary and fruit, is more of a 
Lansium than an Amoora. 
