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MELIA sempervirens. 
West Indian Bead-tree. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MELIACER. Jussieu gen. 263; et in mém. du mus. d’hist. nat. 
3. 436. Div. II. Folia composita. 
MELIA. Cal. minimus 5-fidus. Petala 5 oblonga. Stamina 10, tubo 
cylindrico 10-dentato, dentibus antheras intùs adnatas obtegentibus. Stigma 
capitatum. Drupa globosa feta nuce 5-loculari 5-spermá. Frutices; folia 
impari-pinnata, aut bipinnata; flores paniculati axillares. Embryo seminis 
intra albumen carnosum tenue. Jussieu loc. cit. 265. 
M. sempervirens, foliis pinnatis foliolis rugosiusculis subseptenis. Swartz 
prod. 67. 
Melia sempervirens. Swartz obs. 171. Ejusd. flor. ind. occid. 2. 737. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. 559. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Melia Azedarach. f. sempervirens. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 550. 
Azedarach sempervirens et florens. Tournef. inst. 616. 
OBS. Ab Azedarach distincta est, nec pro varietate æstimari debet. Dif- 
fert enim ab illa, quod tota planta minor et sep floret biennis, quod 
foliola lete viridia, raro plusquàm 7, rugosiuscula, profundiüs et magis 
inequaliter serrata et acuminata, Swartz obs. 171; (manuscriptis 
b. Solandri in biblioth. banksianá repositis subducta.) 
MELIA Azedarach differt a sempervirente quod planta major, quod petioli 
prope basin teretiores, quod foliola plura, sepius 9 vel 11, longius petio- 
lata, saturate viridia, plana, nitida subtüs punctis minimis ferrugineis 
adspersa. Solander MSS. in biblioth. banks. à 
Tubus stamineus hypogynus, sanguineo-fuscescens, extus glaber, intüs 
pubescens, corolle equalis, erectus, breve decemfidus, lobulis trifidis, lacinulis 
subulatis media brevissimá introrsúm antheriferd: anthere meline, erecta, 
introrse, ab imo dorso inserte, oblonge, cuspidate, biloculares loculis lon- 
gitudinalitér dehiscentibus: pollen granuloswm, granulis sphericis. Germ. 
virens, glabrum ovatum esulcum, estriatum; stylus continuus, tubo stamineo 
«qualis, virens, glaber, tereti-elongatus, robustus; stigma apex obtusus iso- 
perimetrus subcoloratus pentacollis. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's 
Road, where the plant has flowered the second year from 
seed imported from the Calcutta Garden, into which, 
according to Dr. Roxburgh, it was introduced from the 
West Indies. 
The species was first distinguished from Mura Azeda- 
rach by Dr. Solander, as is proved by his manuscripts in 
Mr. Brown's library, where we have copied the above Latin 
