896 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Melia. 
great beauty. Its flowers are like those of the Lilac, and 
are sweetly fragrant. iy, 
5. M. superba. R. 
Leaves. bi-tripinnate; leaflets ovate-cordate, wiiilias 
acuminate, lucid. Drupe ovate ; nut perforated at a 
ends, 
A native of Soonda, where Dr. Berry found it, a forest 
tree of immense size. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta 
where it has been raised from the seed, sent by Dr, B. it 
has, in six years from the time the seed was sown, at- 
tained the height of forty or fifty feet, with a most state- 
ly trunk, of about four feet in circumference, at four feet 
above ground. Flowering time February and March, 
and the seed ripens in December and January. 
Trunk nearly straight. Bark dark brown, dotted with 
small white specks. Branches generally trichotomous, 
their bark like that: of the trunk. Young shoots mealy. 
Leaves alternate, in luxuriant young trees tripinnate, when 
older generally bipinnate ; from two to fuur feet long, (in 
M. robusta they are only from twelve to eighteen inches 
long). Pinne from three to six pair, opposite. Pinnule 
ternate. Leaflets from three to seven pair to each pinna, 
generally opposite, petiolated, cordate, and ovate-cordate, 
crenate, smooth, acuminate; from three to five inches 
long. Petioles round, while young mealy,  P. anicles 
axillary,-and lateral, round the base of the present annU- 
al shoots, large, ascending, very ramous, and of an ovate 
form, while young mealy. Flowers numerous, small, of a 
dull white, and offensive smell. Bractes small, lanceolate, 
nearly caducous, Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets ovate-lan- 
i incurved,mealy, Petals tient concave, recury-_ 
. Nectary subcylindric, rather gibbous at the base, 
pater hairy on the inside ; the ten teeth of its mouth 
divided into three, four, or five short, subulate segments. po 
Germ five-celled, with two seeds i in each, attached as : 
Ge te ee. 
