Dysoxylum.] 
xxxv. meliacete. 
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imbricate recurved. Stamen-tube cylindric, mouth dentate; 
anthers 6, 8, or io, included or tips exsert. Disc tubular as long 
or longer than the ovary. Ovary 3- or 4-celled; ovules 2 in each 
cell; style as long as stamen-tube. Capsule globose or pear- 
shaped, with a pseudo-stalk; pericarp coriaceous white, yellow 
or red 1- to 4-celled. Seeds arillate. Species about 100, India, 
Malaya and Australia. 
Flowers pentamerous. 
Small tree; leaflets small 5 in. long elliptic 
cuspidate; panicle short 
Flowers tetramerous. 
Inflorescence panicled; panicles slender lax 
few-flowered. 
Leaflets linear lanceolate flowers m 6 in. 
long; tree ..... 
Leaflets oblong lanceolate caudate; flowers 
•15 in. long; shrub .... 
Panicle long, flowers in dense heads, all 
pubescent; leaflets oblique 6 in. long, 
pubescent ...... 
Panicle with many spreading branches. 
Leaves coriaceous nerveless; fruit 4 in. 
long pear-shaped; big tree . 
Leaflets thin; nerves conspicuously winged 
Nerves of leaflets not winged. 
Panicles short. 
Flowers‘i in. long; disc hairy 
Disc glabrous; flowers ‘25 in. long silky in 
distant clusters ..... 
Flowers '2 in. long not silky; panicles 
elongate; branches spreading 
Flowers *5 in. long white silky; panicle 
rather short sometimes reduced to a 
raceme (var.) ..... 
Flowers '2 in. long glabrous; panicle large 
spreading; branches over 1 ft. long 
Flowers in racemes on the trunk. 
Leaflets oblique ovate; flowers -35 in. long; 
fruit glabrous ..... 
Leaflets oblong lanceolate cuspidate; flowers 
■25 in. long; fruit tomentose . 
Leaflets oblong 5 by 3 in.; flowers ■ 15 in. 
long; fruit tomentose .... 
Flowers in spikes on branches under 2 in. 
long. 
Leaflets opposite or subopposite. 
Disc 8- to 9-toothed exceeding ovary 
flowers -2 in. long .... 
Disc o or very small; flowers ’15 in. long 
Leaflets remote alternate .... 
(1) D. arborescens 
(2) D. angustifolium 
(3) D. dumosum 
(4) D. interruption 
(5) D. acutangulum 
(6) D. venulosum 
(7) D. thyrsoideum 
(8) D. turbinatum 
(9) D. costulatum 
(10) D. maerothyrsum 
(n) D. pulchrum 
(12) D. cauliflorum 
(13) D. flavescens 
(14) D. densiflorum 
(15) D. rugulosum 
(16) D. papillosum 
(17) D. alfcernatum 
(1) D. arborescens Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat . iv. 24; King, 
l.c. 38. D. Maingayi Hiern, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 547. 
Glabrous tree 20 to 30 ft. tall, 4 to 6 in. through. Leaves 
6 to g in. long; leaflets 5 to 7 membranous elliptic caudate, base 
