650 xxxyii. MELiACE^. (W. p. Hiern.) [Bysoxyhm. 



divisions slightly crenulate at the margins; stamens 10 ; ovary 5-celled, each cell con- 

 taining 1 ^ubhorizontal ovule : seeds with an incomplete orange arillus. :-',■/■:% 



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7. CHISOCHETON, Blume. (Schizochiton.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, quite entire, opposite or subopposite : 

 leaflets more or less oblique. Panicles snpra-axillary divaricately brancnea 

 many-flowered, rarely axillary or flowers m spicate racemes ; flowers poiy- 

 gamo-dicecious. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, very 

 rarely 6, usually linear-elongated, long cohering in a tube especially beloWj 

 at length spreading, somewhat imbricated or valvate. Siaminai ^"^^ pj^" 

 gated, slender, tubular, 4-8-lobed at the apex, lobes entire or t^^l^^^'^j 

 anthers linear, equal in number to and alternate with the 1*^^^^' ^"^ i^^? 

 or somcAvhat exserted. Disk short and fleshy or tubular. Ovary short, :i-**- 

 celled ; style filiform, usually exceeding the staminal tube, stigma capitate, 

 ovules usually one in each cell. Capsule subglobose, thickly coriaceous, -^-^ 

 celled, loculicidally 2-4-valved. Seeds usually enclosed in an itiipertect anj 

 hile usually suborbicular or oval ; cotyledons usually peltate.— Diste^. ^, 

 genus of about 12 species confined to Eastern India and the Indian Arciu- 

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Sect. I, Racemes spicate. 



oblong 



1. C. spicatus, Hiern; leaflets 4 or 6 opposite elliptic or oDiong 

 uminate glabrescent, base cuneate shortly petiolulate, racemes^ ^P ^ % 



axillary, calyx " entire, staminal tube obtusely 5-6-toothed, anthers 5-6. 



Malacca, J/ain^ay. V lent 



A tree about 30 ft. high. Touvg parts and inflorescence pale tawny, P*^^^^|j..|g 

 Leaves 8-12 in., terminating in a growing point; leaflets 2-6 by li-2 in., *^"^ V 

 oblique. SpiJces 4-6 in., about double the length of the common peduncle ; ^^^^'^^^'^'^^y 

 sessile, 4-| in, long ; bracteoles ovate, small Petals 4. Staminal tube apPJ^^ ^^ 

 pubescent on both sides. Fruit (immature) attenuate at both ends, especiaiy 

 wards apex, obsoletely tomentose. 



Sect. II. Flowers panicled. 









Anthers 5 or fewer. 



2. C. erythrocarpus, Iliem; leaflets 10-12 opposite elliptic « 

 oblong obtusely cuspidate glabrate above, base obtuse, panicles .about 

 the length of the leaves many-flowered supra-axillary, anthers 5, au* ,, 

 conspicuous, fruit globose base stipitate. . nA 



Young partB petioles petiolules and fruit tawny and shortly tomentose. -t.*^ . -^tio- 

 minating in growing points, about 1 ft. long or more; leaflets 3-6 by 'h^j 'feab 

 lules K in- „ I^lowers ^ in. long ; pedicels short. Calyx 3-5-toothed. ^^^^j^ 

 5, valvate. Staminal tube truncately 5-toothed at apex, pubescent on t'O"' f 'utarv. 

 centrally emargiuate, truncate ; anthers 5, included. Ovary 2- '-celled; ovules " .^ 

 Fruit bright blood-red. Seeds exarillate, 1 in. long ; testa verj thick, coriaceous, u 6 

 orange ; hile §-i in, diam. • \ ; . : 



3. C. penduliflorus, rianck mss. in Hh. Kew. ; tawny velvety, j^^* 

 lets 10-11 opposite elliptic or ovate or upper ones obovate cuspiaa ^^^ 



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rounded or subcordate except of the upper leaflets, panicles ^^""^w 

 supra-axillary very narrow pendulous, flowers 4-5-merous elongatea, ^ 

 toothed or entire, staminal tube appressedly pilose outside below ^^ 

 lobes, sparingly pUose inside below the middle, lobes deeply e|O^JLi^w, 

 anthers 3-5 included sessile, style very slender glabrous above piw^e ^^^ 

 disk glabrous If ee s^oirt cuuular fleshy. Melia penduliflora, Wall. o«- *^ 



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