Meliacee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 139 
Sapindus acuminatus (Wall. MSS. E. I. Herb.) ; rachi foliorum angustissime marginata, foliolis 5-6- 
jugis oblique lanceolatis acuminatis lucidis suboppositis breye petiolatis, unico breviore terminali: 
panicula ramosissima terminalii—Hap. Deyra Doon and other valleys within the Himalaya, flowering 
in May ; also at Bechiaco, in the entrance to Nepal and at Silhet: the native name reetha. Fruit 
used for the same purposes as the soap berries of the West Indies and South America. 
40. MILLINGTONIACER. 
Dr. Roxburgh having found it necessary to deprive the late Sir S. Millington of the 
genus assigned to his memory, in consequence of ascertaining the only species thereof to 
be a true Bignonia, restored the name to the system by assigning it to two timber-trees, 
which at that time, as he expresses himself (Fl. Ind. i. p. 102), « constituted this 
strongly-marked family,” of which one species, M. simplicifolia, was figured in t. 254 
of his Coromandel plants ; and with it, another species described in the Flora Indica. 
In 1824 Dr. Wallich sent to England what he considered three more species; AZ. dille- 
nifolia, pungens, and integrifolia; of these the two last appear to me identical, as 
no great reliance can be placed on the entireness of the leaves, as some with entire 
and spinulose margins may occasionally be seen on the same specimen. M. pinnata 
was procured from Silhet; J. simplicifolia and pungens from that district, and the 
entrance into Nepal; the two last were also found by Dr.Wight; the first on the 
Neelgherries, and the second on the mountains of Madura. M. dillenifolia Dr.Wallich 
obtained from Chundraghiry, and other elevated mountains in Nepal. The trees I 
have met with belong to Dr.Wallich’s two species, M. dillenifolia and pungens: the 
former found about Dhunoultee and Simla, between 6,000 and 7,000 feet of elevation ; 
and M. pungens is common about the rivers below both the Mussooree and Suen 
ranges. To this is allied another tree found in the valley about Mugra, which I 
have called MW. acuminata, but it may be only a variety of A/. pungens. 
This genus, therefore, consisting of four or five species, is spread over a considerable 
extent of territory from 10° to 314° of northern latitude, or from the Neelgherries and 
Madura, along Silhet and the foot of Nepal to Mussooree and Simla; and has been 
formed into an order, and an excellent account given by Messrs. Wight and Arnott in 
Jameson’s Journal for July 1833, p. 178; at which time they state (Prod. Fl. Indie 
Penins. p. 115) theyhad not seen the similar remarks made by Jack (Mal. Misc. 2. p. 32). 
The authors observe, that the habit of the MJillingtonias is much that of Semecarpus ° 
mangifera and Buchanania: it may be added, that in inflorescence they also resemble 
the mango. In some of the species, extending to a considerable elevation in the Hima- 
layas, they also, resemble some of the Zerebinthacee; but Dr. Hooker having sug- 
gested an affinity with Sapindacee, the authors see little objection to its forming the 
type of a new order next them, . ‘ 
41. MELIACE®. 
The Aelacee@, it has been observed, are closely allied to Sapindacee; and it has 
been further remarked by M. Adrien de Jussieu, in his excellent memoir on the former 
Ta order 
