276 A FLORA OF. MANILA 
5. DYSOXYLUM Blume 
Trees with pinnate, often much elongated leaves, the leaflets entire, 
often oblique at the base. Flowers elongated, perfect, paniculate. Calyx 
4- or 5-fid, dentate, or subentire. Petals 4 or 5, oblong, valvate or only 
slightly imbricate. Staminal-tube cylindric; anthers short, 6 to 10, usually 
included. Disk tubular, equaling or longer than the ovary. Ovary 3- or 4- 
celled; style about as long as the staminal-tube. Capsule usually globose, 
the pericarp coriaceous, 1- to 4-celled, loculicidal. (Greek “bad” and 
“wood,” from the ill-smelling wood of some species.) 
Species 100 or more, India to Malaya, few in Australia and New 
Zealand, 17 in the Philippines. 
1. D. decandrum (Blanco) Merr. Iguio (Tag.). 
A tree 10 to 20 m in height. Leaves crowded at the ends of’ the 
branches, 60 to 90 cm long. Leaflets 10 or more pairs, thin when dry, 
the lower ones usually ovate and less than 10 cm long, the median and 
upper ones oblong, 20 cm long or more, base inequilateral. Panicles axil- 
lary, drooping, about 40 cm long. Flowers sessile, pale-yellowish, pubes- 
cent, about 1 cm long, 5-merous. Capsule depressed-globose, 1.5 to 2 em 
in diameter, pericarp yellow, pubescent. Seeds red. 
Occasionally cultivated, fl. May-July; widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines. Java to New Guinea. 
6. MELIA Linnaeus 
Trees with pinnate or 2- or 3-pinnate leaves, the leaflets toothed. 
Panicles axillary. Calyx short, 5- or 6-lobed. Petals 5 or 6, free, spread- 
ing. Staminal-tube cylindric 10- or 12-striate and toothed; anthers 10 or 
12, inserted near the apex. Disk annular. Ovary 3- to 6-celled; style 
nearly as long as the tube. Fruit drupe-like. (Greek name of the ash, 
applied here on account of the resemblance of the leaves.) 
A small genus of the Indo-Malayan region, 2 species in the Philippines, - 
the following introduced. 
Fieaflets prominently. toothed.2.202...W wo... Stee 1. M. azedarach 
Leaflets entire or only slightly crenate..................2....-2-..220.-----+- 2. M. candollei 
* 1. M. AZEDARACH L. Paraiso (Sp.-Fil.). 
A shrub or small tree, usually not more than 3 or 4m in height. Leaves 
bipinnate, occasionally tripinnate, 20 to 40 cm long; leaflets numerous, 
oblong-ovate, toothed, acuminate, 4 to 7 cm long. Panicles 10 to 20 cm 
long. Flowers fragrant, 5-merous, the petals about 1 cm long, oblong- 
spatulate, pale-lilac, the staminal-tube usually dark-purple, about 7 mm 
long. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, about 1 cm long. 
Frequently cultivated for its fragrant and ornamental flowers, fli. all the 
year. A native of tropical Asia, now cultivated in most tropical countries. 
2. M. candollei Juss. Gango (Tag.); Bagaliga (Vis.). 
A tree 6 to 15 m high, glabrous when mature, the younger es 
tomentose-farinose. Leaves long-petioled, about 50 cm long, usually bi- 
pinnate. Leaflets numerous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire 
or obscurely crenate, 4 to 8 cm long. Panicles in the upper axils, shorter 
