Menta. . MELIACE E. ; 117 
curved, slightly compressed, with a very short double membrane along the 
side next the axis: hilum slightly excavated.—Shrubby, glabrous. Leaves 
trifoliolate: leaflets cuneate-obovate, quite entire, sessile: petiole margined. 
Flowers large, on longish axillary solitary peduncles. 
392. (1) N. alata (W. & A.)—Wight! cat. n. 391.— Turrza alata, Wight, 
mss.—Nela-Naregam, Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 22. 
II. MELIA.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 372. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, patent. Stamen-tube 10-cleft at the apex, with 
10 anthers in the throat ; segments 2—3-partite ; anthers opposite to the seg- 
ments and a little shorter, oblong, slightly apiculate. Ovary seated on a 
short disk, 5-celled ; cells each with 2 superposed ovules. Style columnar, 
breaking off from the top of the ovary : stigma 5-lobed. Fruit.a drupe, with 
one 5-celled bony nut: cells 1-seeded.— Trees. Leaves alternate, bipinnate : 
leaflets in pairs with an odd one, toothed. Peduncles axillary, simple below, 
- above panicled, branched, and many-flowered. 
The number of parts of the flower is occasionally increased by a fifth. - 
393. (1) M. Azedarach (Linn.:) leaves deciduous; leaflets about 5 toge- 
ther, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, serrated, finely acuminated, glabrous: petals 
nearly glabrous.— DC. prod. 1. p. 621; Spr. syst. 3. p. 67 ; Roxb.! fl. Ind. 2. 
p. 2m ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 643, 1968; Wall.! L. n. 1250; Wight! cat, 
n. 402, 
394. (2) M. sempervirens (Sw.?) leaves evergreen ; leaflets ovate, sometimes 
cordate at the base, cut or serrated, with taper entire apices, glabrous: petals 
nearly glabrous.—Rowb.! fl. Ind. 2. p. 305 ; Wall.! L. n. 1252. r 
is character, principally from Roxburgh, does not well accord with that 
of Swartz, although Roxburgh remarks that seeds from the West Indies pro- 
duced plants quite the same as the East Indian plant. Roxburgh says that 
M. sempervirens “ is perfectly distinct from Azedarak, which is a robust de- 
ciduous timber tree; and this a small delicate evergreen of short duration 
compared with the other:” but after examining all the specimens of both 
preserved in the collection presented by the East India Company to the Lin- 
nean Society, we can find no difference between them: indeed Roxburgh’s 
em Specimens look so much alike as to appear as if eut from the same 
395. (3) M. composita (Willd.!) young shoots, petioles, and panicles very 
mealy: leaves tri- or siete rea from 3 to 7 pair to each pinnule, 
ovate, aeuminated, crenulated, glabrous: calyx and petals mealy.— Willd. 
sp. 3. p. 559; Spr.? syst. 8. p. 67; Wight! cat. n. 400.—M. superba, Roxb. fl. 
Ind. 2. p. 396 ; Wall.! L. n. 1254.—M. robusta, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 997 ; in 
E. I. C. mus. tab. 1969.— —Malabar. Mysore. vu uM 
We have the authority of Dr Wallich's specimen for considering this to be 
M. superba of Roxburgh, although Roxburgh says that the leaflets are cordate 
at the base ; and it corresponds precisely with his description and figure. E 
M. robusta, as well as with a specimen from the Calcutta garden in Hami- 
ton's herbarium. We therefore do not hesitate to unite them, the more espe- 
cially as both were found by Dr Berry in the forests of Malabar. 
IH. AZADIRACHTA. Ad. de Juss. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, patent. Stamen-tube bearing 10 anthers in the 
throat, shortly 10-lobed ; lobes reflexed : anthers opposite to the lobes, and 
out equal to them, oblong. Ovary seated ori a short disk, 3-eclled, ovules 
2 in each cell, collateral, pendulous. Style columnar: stigma 3-partite, the 
