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sionaUy tnpinnate, ultimate leaflets 2-1 L opposite ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 ^:j[^^^^renate-serrate acuminate, base more or less oblique, panicles mealy 

 with stellate hairs rather dense, calyx-lobes ovate, petals mealy, anthers 

 exceeding the numerous short subulate teeth of the hairy mouth of the 

 ^nite statninal tube, ovary 5-celled, fruit with 5 or fewer cells and seeds. 

 >l composita, WiUd. Sp. PL ii, 559 (1799), not of De Candolle ; W. & A, 

 ^rodr. 1. 117 ; Dah. <k Gihs. Bomb. Fl 36 ; Thimites Enum, 59 ; BeAd. Fl. 

 WU. 12; Brandis For. Flor. 69. M. superba, Roxh, Ilort. Benq. 33; 

 ^Und u. 396 ; WcdL Cat 1254. M. robusta, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 33 ; FL 

 » \^?^' ■^' australasica, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Afus. xix. 257. M. sethio- 

 »ca, ire/M^. Apontam. Phyto-geogr. Prov. Angola, 584. M. Bombolo, Welw. 

 •<='561. M. argentea, /A ^am. eo; JTa//. CcE^. 1254, a .. 



^e Eastern and Western Peninsulas ; Birma and Ceylon ;' wild and cultivated, 

 "V',^^; Tropical Asia, Australia, and Angola. ■' ^ 



irht f ^a^dsome tree. Leaves 9-24 in. ; leaQets f~3 by \-~l\ in. Flowers greenish- 

 of IV ■P^^*^*' i-i in. long. Drupe ellipsoidal, J in. or more long.— By the kindness 

 ^ ^. Keeper, Professor of Botany at the University of Kostock, I have been enabled 



examine the original specimen of M. dubia. Cav., and to ascertain its identity 

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bubs or small trees with odd-pinnate leaves, opposite or subopposite 

 gl„u:^5 , serrate or entire leaflets, axillary peduncled panicles and sub- 

 U^f ,°o'«^ers.- Ca^yj; small, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petds 5, oblong, 

 adnTf. k^^*' spreading, free, valvate in bud. Stammal tube deeply lO^obed, , 

 inspr+L u °^ to the disk, lobes linear, bifid at the apex ; anthers short, 

 adnatff "^^i^een the teeth, subapiculate. Disk shortly cup-sliaped wholly 

 wit), fv thel)aseof the staminal tube. Ovan/ 5-celled; cells alternate 



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two o!if '.°^^y^"^obes ; style rather short, stigma cIavate-capitate;^ovule.?- 

 alteL.r^^^'' pendulous. Drupe slightly fleshy, 5-ribbed, 5-ceIIed ; ribs 

 men t i-^^*^ *^« calyx-lobes ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds with fleshy albu- 

 Iadi» y^*!^ subfoliaceous.— DiSTKiB. A genus of 2 species, limited to 

 ^'^ and the Malay Archipelago. '' , . : - 



or en?; *?^**cosa, Blume Bijd. 162 ; leaflets 7-11 ovate or elliptic entire 

 baccififf^y, serrate Pubescent on the nerves beneath, ovarv glabn.us. L. 

 Melial ' -^l- ^^ ^nn. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 6. C. ? subscandens, Mia. I.e. /. 

 ft Xr^.^^fera, Roth Nov. Sp. 215. Ekebergia indica, ii!o.rJ. Hort.Beng.ZZ; 

 HothiL -^H 392 ; ^^«^^- Cat. 1256. E. ? integerrima, Wall. Cat. Uo7. Mallea 

 '^V tV £,'^"f • i^ Mem. Mus. xix. 222, t. 13, f. 6 ; W.^A. Prodr. i. 118 ; 



^M. pf- l^f*- ^^- 31 ; I'/i^mtfes ^«Mm. 60 ; Dah. <k Gibs. Bomb. Fl.if ; 



Vii ^^^^>ia/. 6?m. liv. t. 8,f.5. M. integerrima, Ja//.^ Fow^ 



^H't, ^«^- 134. M. subscandens, Tei/sm. d: Binmnd.tnNMTjdMr. 



^ ^n^. xxvu. 39. Melia montana, Hb. Madr. ex Wall. Cat. 12o6, D. 



D^TERN Pe.mjjs^i,^ from the Concan and Circars south warJs to Ceylon. 



^Jo"°iJ'v ^^nc^ed shrub, erect or in dense moist forests somewhat scandent. Lmrts 

 '*^'tles";J!,*''^t« 1-34 by 4-1 A in, shortly petiolu'"*'' '^"""••' 1- in. loner: 

 , «ostlj on long peduncles. Fruit M in. diam. 



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