SwiETENiA. CEDRELACEvE. 241 



1. MELIA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 372. 



Calyx small: sepals 5, united below. Petals oblong, spreading. Rtamcn- 

 tube 10-ck'ft at the apex, with 10 anthers in the throat ; the segments 2-3- 

 parted. Ovary seated on a short disk, 5-celled, with 2 ovules iu each cell, 

 one above the other. Style columnar, breaking off from the top of the ova- 

 ry : stigma 5-lobed. Drupe ovate, with a 5-celled bony nut ; cells 1-seeded. 

 Embryo enclosed within a thin fleshy albumen : cotyledons foliaceous. — 

 Trees, with bipinnate leaves : leaflets toothed. Flowers in axillary panicles. 



1. M. Az edar ach {L.\nn.) : leaves deciduous ; leaflets about 5 together, 

 glabrous, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; petals (lilac) nearly gla- 

 brous.-— La???. /. c; Cav. diss. 7. p. 363, t. 207; Ell. sk. 1. p. 475; Ad. 

 Juss. Meliac. in mem. vius. 19. t. 13 ; Audubon, birds of Amer. t. 62. 



Naturalized in the Southern States ! Introduced from Asia. April.-- 

 Trunk 20-40 feet high, often 3 feet in diameter. Leaves deciduous late in 

 autumn. — Bark of the root anthelmintic and somewhat narcotic. Ell. — Dr. 

 James found this tree on the Canadian, where he thinks it to be a native. — 

 Pride-of- India. 



Order XLT. CEDRELACEiE. R. Br. 



Sepals 4-5, distinct or united. Petals as many as the sepals and 

 alternate with them, distinct, sometimes unguiculate : sBstivation twist, 

 ed or convolute. Stamens twice the number of the petals ; those op. 

 posite the petals shorter and sometimes sterile or deficient : filaments 

 either broad and flat and united into a tube, or subulate and distinct, 

 inserted with the petals on the hypogynous disk : anthers introrse, at 

 length versatile. Ovary with as many cells as petals (rarely with few- 

 er), supported or surrounded by the discoid torus, with several ovules 

 in each cell : styles and stigmas united into one ; the latter usually 

 broad and discoid, 3-5.angled or lobed. Fruit a woody 8-5-celIed, 

 3-5-valved capsule, with septicidal dehiscence ; the valves separating 

 from the dissepiments, which remain attached to the thick axis. Seeds 

 anatropous, many or ^gw in each cell, imbricated in 2 rows near the 

 inner angle, flat and winged, not arilled : albumen thin and fleshy or 

 none. Embryo with large foliaceous cotyledons, and a very small ra- 

 dicle. — Trees, with very hard and durable, usually fragrant and resin- 

 ous wood. Leaves alternate, pinnate, exstipulate. Flowers in termi- 

 nal panicles, perfect, or diclinous by the abortion of the anthers or 

 ovary. 



1. SWIETENIA. Linn.; Ad. Juss. in. mem. mus. 19. y. 249, t. 11. 



Calyx short, obtusely 5-cleft. Petals 5, reflexed. Filaments 10, united 

 into a subcarapanulate 10-toothed tube : anthers included in the tube, alter- 

 nate with the teeth, attached by the middle, apiculate. Style short: stigma 



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