Melia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 395 
Calyx cup-shaped, almost entire, downy. Petals five, 
wedge-shaped, expanding. Nectary cylindric, nearly 
the length of the petals, the ten divisions of its mouth 
linear, and ragged on the inside ; exceedingly hairy. Sta- 
mens as in the genus. Germ ovate, hairy. Style as long 
as the nectary, hairy. Stigma globular. 
The ripe fruit has not been found, but the germ has 
five cells, with one seed in each. 
3. M. sempervirens. Willd. 2 559. 
Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets ovate cordate, gashed, with 
taper, entire apices, smooth on both sides but not shin- 
ing. 
Melia foliis Guplinata’pinnstis.” Flor, Zeyl. 162. 
Sans. Muha-nimba. | 
- Hind. Bakarja- 
Arab. Ban. | vee danse BE ce 
 Teling. Turka-vepa. : Rises 
“A native of Persia, now common CrBuguout India. 
Plants reared in the Botanic garden at Calcutta from 
seed received from the West Indies, did not in any res- 
pect differ from our own Asiatic sort. It blossoms the 
greater part of the year in our gardens, and is perfectly 
distinct from Azedarak which is a robust, deciduous 
timber tree, and this a small, delicate,ever Jew’ of short 
duration, suman with the other. si 
4. M. azedarak. Willd. 2. 558. 
Leaves bipinnate; leaflets obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 
serrate, taper-pointed, ofa deep shining green, — 
Shum-shu of the Chinese at Canton. 
Melia azadiracta. Gert. sem. 2p. 474 t. 189. I. 9. : 
A native of China, &c. In the Botanic garden at Cal... Ps 
cutta it flowers during the hot season, thrives Juxuriant-, 
ly. and quickly becomes a large useful timber tree, of vex 
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