FMergia.~\ XXXVII. meliace^e (olivek). 333 



US. senegalensis, A. Jim. Mem. MMiac. 82. t. 17./ 16 a. Leaves 

 I 1 ft. or longer, 5-11-foliolate ; leaflets rather coriaceous, lateral opposite 

 or nearly so, elliptical or oval-oblong, apiculate or rather broadly (sometimes 

 very acutely, Jim.) pointed, rounded or somewhat narrowed at the base, very 

 shortly petiolulate or snbsessile, glabrous, paler or glaucous beneath, 1^-3 

 in. long, £- 1£ in. broad. Flowers cymose, in compound axillary racemes 

 much shorter than the leaves, sessile or subsessile and clustered. Calyx- 

 lobes broad and rounded or deltoid. Staminal tube denticulate. Ovary 5- 

 celled. Fruit fleshy, about the size of a cherry.— Fl. Seneg. i. 127. t. 81. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia ! Leprieur. 



2. E. Ruppeliana, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 105. Leaves collected at the 

 pabrous or, at first, tomentose-pubescent extremities, 5-9-foliolate, \-\ ft. 

 long or more ; leaflets coriaceous or firmly membranous, lateral opposite or 

 subopposite, elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, base varying 

 much in obliquity, entire or obsoletely undulate-crenate, glabrous, paler or 

 glaucous beneath, 2-4 in. long, 1-1| 'in. broad ; petiolule 1-2 lines or less ; 

 terminal leaflet often %-\\ in. beyond the last pair. Flowers cymose, in 

 compound pedunclatue racemes, from the axils of and much shorter than the 

 I'Pper leaves ; pedicels very short. Calyx 5-fid, with ovate or deltoid lobes. 

 Anthers linear-lanceolate. Ovary pilose, 2-locular. Fruit fleshy, globose. 

 —Trichilia Ruppeliana, Fresen. 'in Mus. Senck. ii. 278. Ektberijia Petit- 

 w»«, Rich. 1. c. t. 24. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Riippel, Schimper ! Roth ! and others ; Seunar, Cienkowski ! 



E-Petitiana, of Richard, is the more glabrous form of this species, and therefore corre- 

 sponds more strictly with the plant originally described by Fresenius. I have seen speci- 

 mens from the Kichardian herbarium, collected by Dillon and Petit, communicated by Count 

 Jranqueville. 



E Me yeri, Prcsl, a Cape species, is doubtfully distinct. 



*• TRICHILIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 337. 



. pjlyx short, 4-5-toot.hed -fid or -partite. Petals 4-5, erect or spreading, 

 m 'bricnte. Stamens 8-10, monadelplious ; filaments free more or less above 

 ° r united to the apex, entire or with a lateral tooth on each side of the anther. 

 l f fre e or atlnate to the base of the tube or ovary. Ovary 2-3-celled ; 

 «y« simple, short or elongate, with a capitate stigma. Ovules geminate. 

 J," P sule 2 -3-celled, dehiscing from above loculicidally ; cells 1-2-seeded. 

 seeds « with a fleshy arillus."— Trees or shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate or 

 4 - obolate. Flower's cymose, in axillary panicles or compound racemes, often 

 collected near the ends' of the branches* 



ImH ° 0nsid ? rable g c »"s, including numerous tropical American species. Some of the fol- 

 ■8 species, in the absence of the fruit, must remain uncertain as to genus, 

 ■aments united to the apex. Leaflets 5-7, acuminate or apiculate, . 



glabrous. Flowers li-2 lines L T ' Prieunam - 



lla,nents free in the upper half. 



