DE C ANDRIA MONO GYNll 



475 



olitusc,mucronate, marked with transverse purple bands between the 



seeds, generally containing 6 sccils. 



Verj similar in habit and appearance to the C. nictitans, with 

 which it grows on the sea islands, and with which it has hitherto been 

 confounded. On Eding's island near Beaufort, comraon. 



Flowers Au2;ust — October. 



MELTA. Gen. pl. 7S1. 



tals 



Calyx .5-(IentatLis. Pe- 

 tala 5. JSTect avium cylin- 

 draceiim,dentatum,faiice | cal, toothed 

 antheras gerens. Drupa \ anthers m' the throat. 



Calyx 5 toothed. P<s 



J^ectary cyWndrU 



bearing 



the 



mice quinqueloculari. 



i. AZCDARACII. 



M. foliis biphmatis ; fo- 

 liolis Iffivibus, ovatis, den- 



Dri/pe with a S celled 

 nut. 



tatis. 



Pers. 1. p. 469. 



r 



Leaves bipiiinate ; leaf-, 

 lets smoothj ovate^ tooth- 

 ed. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 558, 



A tree 30—40 feet high, and in favourable soils sometimes morfe 

 than 3 feet in diameter, with branches clustered at irregular inter- 

 vals. Leaves deciduous, doubly pinnate ; leaflets of a dee^p green co- 

 lour, dentate, acuminate, j^Iabrous. Flowers in clustered axillary 

 panicles at the summit of the branches, of a lilac colour, and remarka- 

 We in their structure for their curious nectary. Stamens very short. 



Drupe containing a nut obtusely angular, and enveloped in a soft, yeK 

 loyibh pulp. 



This tree, a native of Persia, is now perfectly naturalized in our- 

 country, spriK^ing from seed in cultivated land and around enclo- 

 sures with more freedom than most of our native trees. It is now 



and in yards, and in many re»- 



Itivated 



spects merits this preference. It grows more 'rapidly than any other 

 tree with which uc are acquainted^ forms a fine shade, retains the 

 beautiful verdure of its leaves until late in the autumn, and is so 

 noxious to insects in general, that it excapes almost entirely their 

 I'avages. AVithin a few years past, however, a species of coccus ha» 

 been found in the autumn to destroy the leaves of this tree, in the 

 ^entra! part of Charleston, Its flowers are ornamental and fragrant. 

 Its timber is said to be durable, and, a-? its colour is good, it hasbeea 

 ^ocomincndcd for cabinet-maker's workj but the grain is too coarse 

 for fine and ornamental furniture. Its greatest disadvantage is the 



^iicility with which it is blown down by Tiigh winds ; but as a com- 

 pensation, it bears transplanting even when old, fakes root almost- 



■^Vith the facility of an herbaceous plant, antl appears to suffer no iuy 



