Chloroxylon
(from chloros, green, and xylon, wood; in allusion to the colour of the wood). ORD. Meliaceae. A fine stove timber tree, having terminal panicles of small, whitish flowers, and abruptly pinnate leaves. It succeeds well in a compost of loam and peat. Ripe cuttings, with their leaves intact, will root in sand, under a hand glass, in a moist heat. C. Swietenia (Van Swieten's). Satin-wood Tree. l., leaflets many pairs, unequal, ovate, somewhat rhomboid, obtuse. h. 50ft. India, 1820. The wood of this tree is of a deep yellow colour, remarkably close-grained, heavy, and durable. SYN. Swietenia Chloroxylon. (B. F. S. 11.)