244 MELIACEZ (Sond.) [Turred. 7 
173. Cav. Diss. t. 159. Lam, Encyel. t. 571. Lodd. Cab. Bot. t. 682. 
Rehb. Exot. t. 229. Burm. Afr. t.21.f.2. Don, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ: 
1832, p. 242, and 1833, p. 262, 
Has. Karroo, near Gouds River and Slang River, Thunberg. Gauritz River, 
George ; and between Uitenhage and Graaf Reynet, H.¢:Z./ Zwarteberg, 2-3000 f.; 
between Kaus, Natvoet, and Doornpoort, 1-2000 f. (Orange River Mouth); and near 
the Great Fish River, Albany, Drege/ Winterhoek, Dr. Pappe! Woods near Uiten- 
hage, Dr. Alecander Prior? (Herb. T.C.D., &c.) 
A much branched, rigid shrub, 5-10 feet high, with long, virgate, leafy branches. 
igs angular, minutely downy. Leaves densely set, scattered, or fascicled on tu- 
bercle-shaped, abortive ramuli, linear, lin.-oblong, or spathulate, tapering at base into 
a minute petiole, 1-11 inch long, 11-3 lines wide ; obtuse or sub-acute, glabrous, 
one-nerved, veinless, coriaceous. Pedicels axillary, shorter than the leaves, minutely 
puberulous, as are also the calyx and petals. Calyx 1} lines long. Petals 5—6 lines 
long, 2-3 lines broad, purplish. Ovary pubescent. Capsule pink or purple, 14 inches 
in diameter, of a thin, membranous substance, much inflated, deeply lobed and 
sharply angled. 
Orper XXIX. MELIACEZ, Juss. 
ms (By W. Sonper.) 
(Melix, Juss. Gen. 263. Meliacem, Juss. Mem. Mus. 3. 436. DC. 
1. p. 619. Ad. de Juss. Memoire Mus. vol. xix. Endl. Gen. No. 
eexxy. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. clxxiii,) “ 
Flowers perfect, or ahortively unisexual, regular, Calyx short, 4-5- 
cleft or cup-shaped, with imbricate zstivation. Petals 4-5, longer than 
the calyx, sessile, with valvate or slightly imbricate estivation. Stamens 
hypogynous, twice as many as the petals ; flaments united into an entire 
or toothed tube ; anthers either on the teeth of the tube, or sessile 
within the orifice. A hypogynous, fleshy, cup-like dise surrounds the 
ovary. Ovary free, pluri-locular, with axile placenta ; ovules in pairs, 
rarely solitary ; style simple, stigma capitate or peltate, obsoletely lobed. 
Fruit a berry, capsule or drupe. Seeds with or without albumen, with 
a straight embryo and leafy or fleshy cotyledons. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely sub-opposite ; usually pinnate or bi- 
pinnate, rarely simple ; the leaflets entire or cut or serrated. Stipules none. Flowers 
either panicled, corymbose, racemose or spiked, usually of small size. 
This Order is chiefly tropical, a few species only straggling into the warmer parts 
_ Of the temperate zone. Most are extremely bitter, astringent and acrid, and are 
_ either powerful medicines or poisons. All parts of the common Cape Lilac (Melia 
— ac malta are intensely bitter, with strongly purgative qualities ; its extract is, in 
useful as a vermifuge ; in larger it is violently poisonous. 
_ ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
‘I, Turrea.—tLearee simple. Petals very long, stra 
a Ten — simple. , strap-shaped. 
te Trichilia. —Leaves simply pinnate. Fruit a dry, splitting capsule. 
ee -Lewn simply pinnate. Fruit , indehiscent. 
