246 MELIACEZ (Sond.) [Trichilia. 
Trees with bi-pinnate or decompound leaves, natives of the tropics of the Eastern 
hemisphere. Flowers paniculate, sweetly scented, lilac-coloured. Name, from peAia, 
the Greek name for the Ash. 
OPT ree ee : = 
Caplin yy 4. M. Azederach (Lin. Sp. p. 550); leaves bipinnate ; leaflets 
Renern (oy smooth, incised, subquinate. #.é Z./ En. No. 424. Herb. Un. It. 
Nav] oa No. 509. 
ml Cultivated in gardens throughout the Colony. “ Cape Lilac,” or Pride of China. 
Il. TRICHILIA, Linn. 
Calyx short, 4~—5-toothed or cleft. Petals 4—5, oblong, or ovate, sub- 
imbricate in estivation, Stamens 8-10, the filaments sometimes sub- 
distinct, sometimes united into a tube, antheriferous within, Ovary 
2~4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell. Style short, continuous with the 
ovary ; stigma capitate, 2-4-lobed. Capsule 2—4-celled, loculicidally 
2-4-valved ; valves septiferous in the middle; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds 
with a fleshy arillus. Endl. Gen. No. 5541. <A. Juss. l.c.p. 235. DC. 
Prod. 1. p. 622. © 
Tropical and sub-tropical trees or shrubs, natives chiefly of America, very few 
African. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Flowers in axillary panicles. Name, 
Tpixa, by threes ; the ovary and capsule are usually trilocular. 
_— * Staminal tube deeply ten-cleft ; segments hairy within. : 
1. T. Dregeana (E. Mey. in Hb. Drege) ; leaves impari-pinnate, leaf- 
lets in 2—5 pair, lanceolate-oblong, acute or sub-acuminate, glabrous on 
both sides, or strigilose on the nerves beneath ; panicles axillary, short, 
divided from the base ; petals tomentose on each side, four times as 
long as the obtusely 5-fid calyx ; staminal tube 10-cleft to the middle, the 
segments very hairy within, antheriferous at the bifid apices ; capsule 
globose, cells 2—-1-seeded f 
Var. 8. oblonga; leaflets 2-3 pair, broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse. T. 
Dregeana 8. oblonga, Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 76. 
Has. In woods at Port Natal, Drege/ Gueinzius/ Var. B. from the same district, 
Mr. Sanderson! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
torbtehed branches thick, with a brownish-grey, rugged bark. Leaves large ; 
1 inches wide, shinin: 
the leaflets are 2i-3t 
y arillus ; cotyledons thick, radicle short, immersed. 
_** Staminal tube undivided. (Sp. 2-3). 
g » (E. Mey. in Hb. Drege) ; leaves impari-pinnate, 
leaflots 3-5 pale "be “eek ine areas ah * 
eee Me ovate, very ¢ , mostly somewhat narrowed at the 
the branches bracteo petals tomentose at eac] Esviees 
as long as the acutel bigs acon Sibilied: 
