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5*12 XXXVII. MELiACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) [Turrm. 



or lateral clusters, shortly peduncled. Ccdyx shortly 5-fid, harry. Staminal-tyhe about 

 1 in, long, with 10 lanceolate teeth. Qvary 5-celled. Ca;psuU k i^- ^^"Si tairy. Seeds 

 not winged. . ' 



2. T. vlUosa, Benn. PI Jav. Rar. 182; more or less pubescent with 

 short bairs, leaves elliptic or ovate shortly acuminate thin, base obtuse or 

 cuneate. flowers white, style far exserted, capsule glabrate. Wight let 



1593, Euonymus (sp.) Beddome Ftor. Syl^. Anal. Gen, Ixiv. .. /. 



WfiriTEKN Peninsula ; on the Anamallay and Mahableshwur hills ; Gdzerat, at 

 Dolra, Hove in Bb. Batiks. . _ . . 



A large shrub or small tree. Leaves in flower usually about 14 in., in fruit 2-4 in. 

 and sometime^ glabrate, entire, shortly petioled. Flowers sweet-scented, 1-U "J. 

 long, in axillary clusters or sbort racemes, 3-6 together, about double the length of the 

 peduncles. Calyx short, pubescent. Staminal-tube |-1 in. long, glabrous as^well as 

 the petals ; teeth very short. Ovary 5-celled. Cajjsvle subgloboae, about \ in. long. 

 Seeds not winged, ' U^ 



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2. NAREGABKIA, W. & A. 





A small glabrous and shining undershrub. Leaves trifoliolate. Pedmd^ 

 axillary, solitary, 1-flowered. C'a^ya: small, campanulate, 5-cleft, deciduoiis. 

 Petals 5, free, elongate-spathulate, imbricated in bud, at length spreading 

 above. Staminal-tube elongated, inflated above, obsoletelv lO-crenate at 

 the mouth; anthers 10, terminal, shortly oblong, inserted at the crenatjires 01 

 the mouth, exserted, setaceous-apiculate. Bisk eimmlnv. Ovary 3-celled, ovules 

 2 collateral in each cell, pendulous ; sfvle filiform, stigma capitate, top^}^^ 

 ovoid-globose, 3-lobed, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved; valves separating 

 from the 3- winged axis. Seeds 2 in each cell, albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 ^ foliaceous.— DiSTRiB. One Indian species, represented in Angola, A> est lr(^ 



Sical Africa by a shortly hairy form scarcely likely to prove specmcaiiy 

 istinct. 



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)(^ 1. N. alata, W. & A. Prodr. I 117; leaflets sessile cuneate-obova^^^^^ 

 quite entire or obtusely lobed, common petioles winged. Wall. ^_^/\^y^, ^ 

 Orah. Cat. B(mb, PL 30 ; Lalz. d: Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 36 ; Drurv hid. ILh Ibi > 

 Wight Ic. t. 90. N. dentata, 31iq. in PL Holimack. J^o. 79, Turrsea alata, 

 Wight exW.& A. l.c—Hheede HorL Mai. x. t. 22. - - v 



Western Peninsula; or the Western Ghats from the Concan southwards.— risTKiB.^^ 

 Angola (a pubescent" form). , /• 'l ^''^ 



Branches erect or decumbent, from a few inches to 2 ft. long. Leaves 1-4 m. long^ 

 terminal leaflets rather larger tban the lateral ones and about the length of the coi»jni 

 petiole. FloKcrs 1-1 J in. long, quite white, longer than the peduncles, ^^y^ 

 yellow. 



3. IttUNRO|«A, Wight. .'•. -h* 



Shrubs or undershrubs with trifoliolate or unequally pinnate leaves, 

 entire or coarsely toothed leaflets, elongated flowers, and axiiwry i 

 flowered peduncles. Calux 5-partite, short at least in flower, P^^S 

 snbfoliaceous. Petals 5, elongate-spathulate, cohering half way. ^^^ j . 

 tube adnate below to the corolla, cylindrical, 10- toothed at tne au ^ 

 anthers 10, terminal, alternating with the teeth, setaceous-apiculate. ^ 

 membranous, tubular, sheathing the ovary and base of the istyle. ^\-^^2k 

 celled ; cells opposite the sepals, 2-ovuled ; style elongated, slender, s g.^^_ 

 capitate; ovures superposed, eaj?s«?e,,depressed-dobose, 5-lobea,^ 

 ceous, locuhcidally 5-valved: valves separating from tM S-wiUoe" 





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