116 MELIACEJE. Nase 
ated: outer petals rounded, concave ; inner cleft almost to the base, more 
than twice as short as the filaments.— Rob. fl. Ind. 1. p. 103 ; Cor. 3. t. 254; 
Spr. syst. 1. p. 36; W. & A. in Ed. new ph. jour. l ¢ ; Wight! cat. n. 946. 
Madura. 
The description and figure given by Roxburgh are not correct as to the 
dissections, as we have ascertained by a specimen from Wallich in Dr 
Hooker’s herbarium. 
ORDER XXXVIIL—MELIACEJE. Juss. 
Sepals 3-5, distinct or more or less united: æstivation imbricative. 
Petals as many as the sepals and alternating with them, longer than 
the calyx, distinct, or rarely united at the base with each other or with 
the stamen-tube : æstivation valvular or imbricative. Stamens usually 
as many as the petals, rarely only as many, and very rarely numerous: 
filaments united into a firm tube: anthers introrse, sessile within the 
tube or on its margin, or adnate to the inside of the tube or its seg- 
ments. Torus between the ovary and stamen-tube, either inconspicu- 
ous or discoid, or tubular. Ovarium single, cells usually equal to the 
number of petals, or fewer (2-3, or very rarely only 1), very rarely 
twice or four times as many: ovules usually in pairs, sometimes soli- 
tary, very rarely 4: styles and stigmas combined into one, very rarely 
distinct. Fruit baceate, drupaceous, or capsular, with several (or 1 by 
abortion) cells: dehiscence in the capsular fruits loculicidal. Seeds 
with or without an arillus, never winged or flat.— Tropical (or nearly 
so) trees or shrubs. Leaves without stipules, alternate or very rarely 
somewhat opposite, sometimes simple and quite entire, sometimes pin- 
nated, or bipinnated. Flowers bisexual, but often by abortion having 
only one sex perfect. 
The great characteristic of the Meliacee consists in the filaments combined into 
a tube, the position of the anthers, and the wingless seeds. Aglaia and Milnea have — 
only 5 anthers, pe are ba a great many ; Aglaia only 1 cell to the ovary; Turrea 
sometimes 10 or 20 cells. Mi/nea? montana, Jack, has the styles and sone dis- 
tak wee those oe M be may be said to have a plurilocu - esti 
e cells not exceeding the number teli. à aisle atvis wd sti and the an- 
thers twice as many a Big petals. petals, a single style and stigma, 
Ld 
TRIBE I.—MELIER. Ad. de Juss. 
pou w $ enclosed within a thin fleshy albumen: cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle 
protruded. 
I. NAREGAMIA. W.& A. 
Calyx small. cup-shaped, 5-cleft. Petals 5, very long, strap-shaped, dis- 
tinct, free from the stamen-tube. Filaments united into a long slender tube, 
that is inflated and globular at the apex, the mouth with 10 very slight cre- 
natures, each bearing an anther: anthers spreading outwards, with a $ 
appendage at the apex. Ovary broadly ovate, 3-celled: ovules 2 in each 
cell, collateral, pendulous. Style filiform, slender: stigma small, discoid- 
capitate, with 3 short points on the apex. Capsule slightly membranaceous; 
3-cornered, 3-valved ; valves orbieular. Seeds 2 in each cell, pendulous, 
