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Melia. - DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, | 897 
_their upper and inner angle, to the axis. Style cylindric. 
Stigma large, with a five-toothed apex. Drupe ovate, the 
size of a pigeon’s egg, smooth, fleshy, when ripe yellow. 
Nut oblong, perforated at both ends ; apex five-toothed 
round the perforation, five-celled. Seeds solitary, lanceo- 
lar, attached from the apex. Perisperm in small quantity. 
Embryo straight, inverse, pale green. Colyledons lan- 
ceolate. Radicle oval, superior. 
6. M. robusta, R. 
Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets obliquely ovate, polished, 
entire, or with the anterior margins crenulate, acuminate. 
Panicles axillary. Drupes. ovate. Nut with a quinque- 
dentate apex. 
A large tree, a native of Malabar, and introduced into 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta by Dr. Berry, where in 
seven years the trunk of the largest tree was forty-four 
inches i in circumference, four feet above ground, and the 
total height forty-six feet. Flowering time March and 
April. ~The seed ripens-in December. 
Trunk very straight. Bark clean, smooth, dark 
brown. Branches large, not very numerous, but spread- 
ing considerably, their bark like that of the trunk, with 
Some light grey, scabrous specks. | Young shoots dow- 
ny, with minute stellate pubescence. Leaves alter- 
nate, unequally bipinnate, from twelve to eighteen inch- 
éslong. Pinne about three pair. Leaflets three, five, 
Seven, or nine on each pinna, the pairs obliquely-ovate, 
and oblong; the terminal one biform, all are smooth, 
or rather polished, entire, or crenulate, acuminate, from 
two to three inches long. Panicles axillary, scarcely 
half the length of the leaves. | Flowers numerous, small, 
White, inodorous. Bractes, below the ramifications of 
the panicle, solitary, filiform, and often yery long. Calyx j 
five-leaved ; leaflets ovate-oblong. Petals linear-lan- _ 
ceolar, recuryate, ‘Nectary gibbous at the base; seg- 
‘Ments of its mouth minute and filiform. Filaments 
