118 MELIACEJE. MILNEA. 
lobes conical. Fruit drupaceous, by abortion 1-celled and 1-seeded.—4A tree 
with glabrous shoots. Leaves simply pinnated ; leaflets unequal sided, gla- 
brous, serrated. Panicles axillary. 
The number of parts of the flower is occasionally decreased by a fifth. 
396. (1) A. Indica (Ad. de Juss.)—Ad. Juss. in. mem. mus. 19. t. 13; 
Wight ! cat. n. 401.—Melia azadiracta, Linn.; DC. prod. 1. p. 622 ; Spr. Syst. 
3. p. 67: Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 394; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 94; Roth. nov. sp. 
p. 215; Wall.! L. n. 1251.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 155 Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 52. 
IV. MALLEA. . Ad. de Juss. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, patent. Stamen-tube deeply 10-cleft; each 
division acutely bifid and bearing an anther on the inside between the seg- 
ments: anthers erect, cordate, slightly apiculate. Ovary 5-celled: ovules 2 
in each cell, collateral, pendulous. Style short, clavate: stigma hemispheri- 
eal, pointed with 5 small lobes. Fruit (a nuculanium) with a fleshy epicarp, 
containing 5 bony indehiscent 1-seeded nuts.—Shrubby. Leaves unequally 
pinnated ; leaflets opposite, unequal sided, quite entire or serrated above the 
middle. Peduncles axillary, below simple, above with the flowers in a co- 
rymb or panicle. 
397. (1) M. Rothii (Ad. de Juss.)—Ad. de Juss. in mem. mus. 19. t. 18; 
Wight! cat. n. 399.—Melia baccifera, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. t. 95; Roth. 
nov. sp. p. 215; DC. prod. 1. p. 622.—Ekebergia Indica, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. 
p. 892; Wall.! L. n. 1256. | 
We regret that M. de Jussieu has given the above specific name, as Roth 
eertainly did not deserve the honour from the meagre description he bas 
given of a plant that was already named to him: we regret also the generic 
name, as the vernacular name Malle-notchi given by Leschenault is probably 
from some mistake, the Telingee name being Pooroodona. 
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TRIBE U.—TRICHILIERZ. Ad. de Juss. 
_ Embryo without albumen ; ne thick: radicle short, commonly concealed 
within the cotyledons.—Leaves alternate, simply pinnated ; leaflets quite entire. 
V. MILNEA.  Roxb. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, concave, erect. Stamens 5, closely combined 
into a globose slightly 5-toothed urceolus: anthers included. Ovary 2-9- 
celled: ovules 1-2 in each cell, peritropal, attached to the axis. Style b 
very short and thick (or 2?): stigma truncated and scarcely broader than 
the style (or 2?). Fruit a dry berry, usually by abortion 1-seeded. Seed 
covered with a complete fleshy arillus—Trees or shrubs, the young parts 
with a scaly pubescence. Leaves unequally pinnated ; leaflets almost oppo 
site. Flowers in axillary panicles. 
In the state of flower we can point out no certain character to distinguish this 
genus from Aglaia, for the number of cells and position of the ovules is, in our species 
very difficult of determination. As the fruit advances, the dissepiment is more Com 
spicuous, even when all the cells become abortive but one. We suspect that sev 
of Blume’s species of Aglaia belong to this. As to M. montana, Jack. (Lin. 
14. p. 117), we should have looked on it as a species of Aglaia in the normal states 
particularly as Loureiro keen to have seen pa odorata in China with two sti 
and therefore probably with two cells to the ovary ; and this is further confirm b 
the circumstance that neither Jack nor Roxburgh have ever seen A. odorata attem 
to produce fruit, the ovary being most likely deformed, in which state also are hat 
Re we have ourselves seen from China. We should not therefore doubt t 
. montana and Aglaia odorata are congeners, and perhaps even that Milnea mit 
be united to Aglaia, but that Blume says that Aglaia has the seed without 
which Milnea and even M. montana certainly has. 
