654: ' XXXVII. MELIACE^. (W. P. Hiem.) [Sandoricnm. . 



Staminal tube terminating 



long. Fruit (immature?) | iu. long. 



Flowers J in 



Maing-ayi, Hiem; subglabrous, leaves elliptic subacuminate, 

 "base obtuse, lateral nerves strong above depressed beneath, panicles s|^^[*^^ ' 

 than the leaves, pedicels equalling the flowers mostly exceeding the subulate 

 bracteoles, calyx fleshy obscurely toothed very minutely pilose. i^.^ 



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A tree. Leaves about 6-8 in. ; leaflets 2-5 by l^-S in.; potiolules I m.;^ temiinai 

 one quasi-articulated near apex, lj~lf in. Flowers \-% in. lonff. Calyx ^-7-1^- ^^"S* 

 i^^aZs white tinged with pink, glabrous, marked' outside with pale glandular dots. 

 Staminal tvhe ventricose-cylindrical, contracted at the throat, ribbed externally imo 

 6-lobed near the apex, each lobe obtusely 4-toothed, the 2 central teeth larger. ^"^^^^* 

 2-8eriate. Stigma subacute.— Cfr. S borneense, Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-mt. 



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z. Trees or shrubs, glabrous lepidote or stellately pubescent. Leaves pinnaW 

 or trifoliolate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, ^^^^^ 

 or small, numerous, paniculate, subglobose. Cahjx 5-lobed, imbricatea m 

 bud. Petals 5, concave, short, imbricated. Staminal tube urceolate or su^ 

 globose, 5-toothed at the apex or entire ; anthers 5, included or half-exsertea, 

 erect. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary ovoid or shortly so, l-.3-cellea, wi 

 2-1 ovules in each cell ; style very short. Berry Axy, 1-2-celled a^l^ -^eeue ^ 

 Seeds with a fleshy integument.— Distrib. Species about 50, mhabiius 

 China, the Malay islands and the islands of the Pacific ocean, as well , as 



India. 



Dcnnstedt Schluss- 



Milnea f racemosa, Eoemer Synops, i. 98 (Nyalelia racemosa, Dcnnstedt bclii • 

 Hort. Mai. 23. NyaU, Reede Hort. Mai. iv, t. 16), has, according' to the fa^re, /" 



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Sect. I. Shoots leaves and infl^ 



Leaflets 3-5, rare?y 7. 

 t Inflorescence lax, pedicels slender, about equalling the flowers. 



1. A. odorata, Lour. Fl. Cockinck 173 ; glabrous or quickly becoming 

 , leaflets obovate or oblong obtuse shortly petiolulate terminal ^^ 

 ngest, base cuneate, panicles rather lax, flowers on slender pedicels au 

 as long as themselves, ovary hairy. Wight Ic. t. 511 ; Miq. ^«"' | -i 

 Lngd.-Bat. iv. 48 ; Wall. Cat. 1275 ; Adr. Jiiss. in Mem. Mus. xix. t. 1\ ^• 

 Camunium sinense, Rumxih. Amh. v. 28, t. 18, f. 1. C chinense, /vcm^- 

 Ilort. Beng. 18 ; Fl. Ind. i 636. Opilia odorata, *S>r. Syst. m ]■ ' 

 Murraya exotica, Eeinw. ex Miq. l.c. A. pentaphylla, Kurz ex Mn- ^^' -^ 



Eastern Peninsula ; Malacca, Penang, and Sincapore; (Ceylon, cultiv. ) . — P'f^ ,. 

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2. A. kbasiana, Hiem; leaves narrowly elliptical ^^*'H^^^ i^ort f^f' 

 towards both ends glabrescent on rather long petiolules, panicles sn 

 ruginous, branches short patent, flowers subsessile not minute. _ ^ 



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