1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 89 
Roemer Synops. fasc. I, p. 135 ; Knrz For. Flora Burma I, 227; C. DC. 
Monogr. Phaner. I, 717. G. Nimmonii Grali. in Wight Ill. 148; Dalz. 
and Gibs. FI. Bombay, 38. Plageotaxis velutina, Wall. Cat. 1270. 
Gedrela velutina. DC. Prod. I, 625. ? Gedrela villosa, Roxb. Hort. 
Beng. 18. ? Melia tomentosa, Knrz Rep. Yeg. Andam. ed. i. p. iv., 
(not of Roxburgh ). P Toona velutina , Roem. Synops. Monogr., i. 139. 
? T. villosa. Roem, 1. c. 140. 
Malacca : Maingay. Andaman Islands : King’s Collectors. Distrib. 
Burma, British India, Ceylon. 
13. Cedrela, Linn. 
Tall trees with coloured wood. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets numerous, 
opposite or sub-opposite, entire or serrate. Panicles terminal and sub-ter¬ 
minal. Flowers white, pentamerous. Calyx short, 5-cleft. Petals sub¬ 
erect, oval, imbricated, free. Stamens 5, free, inserted at the top of the 
disk, rarely alternating with staminodes, filaments subulate. Anthers 
oblong, versatile. Dish thick or raised, 5-lobed. Ovary sessile on the 
top of the disk, 5-celled ; cells alternate with the calyx-lobes, each with 
8-12 bi-seriate pendulous ovules ; style filiform ; stigma discoid. Capsule 
coriaceous, 5-celled, septifragally 5-valved, valves consisting of two 
plates. Seeds compressed, winged at the apex or at both ends, with 
fleshy albumen; cotyledons flat, sub-foliaceous.— Distrib. About 16 
species, inhabiting Tropical Asia, Australia, and America. 
Cedrela febrifuga, Forsten Diss. Cedrel. 16. A tree 80 to 150 feet 
high; young branches puberulous, lenticellate. Leaves 15 to 24 in. 
long, glabrous; leaflets membranous, 7 to 10 pairs, obliquely ovate- 
oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base broad and unequal-sided, 
the edges entire; main nerves 12 to 15 pairs, sub-horizontal, distinct 
beneath when dry; length 3*5 to 4 25 in., breadth 1-75 to 2 in., petio- 
lule *2 in. Panicles terminal, shorter than, or as long as the leaves, 
spreading, glabrous ; their ultimate branches short, cymose, crowded. 
Flowers '2 in. in diam., on short pedicels. Segments of the calyx spread¬ 
ing, much shorter than the petals, obtuse, pubescent at the edges. Petals 
broad, obtuse, pubescent. Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the petals, 
the filaments and ovary sericeous. Capsule 1 in. long, lenticellate. 
Seeds winged at each end, *6 to *7 in. long. Blume Bijdr. I, 180; A. 
Juss. Mem. Mel. 103; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Y. I, pt. 2, 548; Suppl. 197; 
Ann. Mus. Lngd. Bat. IY, 63 ; De Cand. Monogr. Phaner. I, 744. G. Toona , 
Hiern (not of Roxb.) Hook. FI. Br. Ind. I, 569. Toona febrifuga, Roem. 
Syn. fasc. I, 139. 
Penang : Curtis, No. 826. Perak : King’s Collector, No. 10403. 
In the Flora of British India, Mr. Hiern has reduced this to 
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