Walsura
(altered from Wallursi, the Telinga name). ORD. Meliaceae. A genus comprising about a dozen species of stove, evergreen trees, limited to India and the Indian Archipelago. Flowers small; calyx short, five-cleft or five-parted; petals five, ovate-oblong, spreading; filaments ten or eight; panicles axillary and terminal. Leaves one to five-foliolate; leaflets opposite, quite entire, pale beneath. Perhaps W. robusta is not now in cultivation. W. piscidia is met with in botanic gardens. They require similar treatment to that recommended for Chloroxylon.
W. piscidia (fish-poison). fl. sordid-yellow; petals imbricated; staminal tube half the length of the petals, equally ten-cleft. June. l. 2in. to 7in. long; leaflets 1in. to 4in. long, 2/3in. to 1 2/3in. broad, sub-ternate, elliptic, obtuse, often retuse, glabrous, shining, pale beneath h. 20ft. India, 1830. The bark acts as a fish-poison.
W. robusta (robust). fl. white, 1/6in. long; panicles nearly as long as the leaves, densely puberulent. June. l. 6in. to 12in. long; leaflets five, sometimes three, ovate or elliptic, acuminate, shining. h. 20ft. and upwards. India, 1827.