262 Materials Jvr a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



about as long as the thick flattish filaments which are insei'ted on the 

 edge of the thick fleshy ring-like disc ; rudimentary ovary ovoid, minute. 

 Female ftoivers not seen. Hipe drupes ovoid-globose, flattened on one side, 

 •75 in. long, glabrous, the scar of the stigma below the apex of the 

 flattened side. Engler in DeCand. Monogr. Phanerog. IV, 160. 



Malacca: Grifiith, No. 1151: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 305. 

 Perak : King's collector. 



I quite agree with the author of this species that, when better 

 material of /S^awima ^07?iew^osa, Blume (Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 211), shall 

 be forthcoming, the two will probably be found to be identical. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By George King 

 M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., C.I.E., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta. 



No. 7. 



From the Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LXIV, Part II, No. 1, 



1895. 



In working out tlie difficult family of Meliacese, I have had the 

 great advantage of being able to consult a suite of the specimens of 

 Blume and Miquel, which were kindly lent to me, for the purposes of 

 comparison and study, by Drs. Suringar and Boerlage, of the Leiden 

 Herbarium. Many specimens, chiefly of Bornean species, were, through 

 the kindness of its Director, Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., also lent 

 to me from the Kew Herbarium, some of which were enriched by notes 

 by Dr. 0. Stapf, a member of the staff of that Institution. 



Order XXVII. Meliacese. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, usually pinnate, 

 rarely simple or bipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, usually quite 

 entire and more or less oblique at the base. Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamo-dicecious, regular, usually in axillarj^ panicles. Calyx 3- 6- 

 lobed, sometimes entire or with free sepals, usually imbricated in bud. 

 Petals 3-6, free or rarely connate at the base, sometimes adhering to 

 the lower half of the staminal tube, valvate or imbricated. Stamens 

 3-12, inserted outside the base of the hypogynous disc ; filaments 

 connate in a tube or rarely free ; anthers erect, usually sessile on the 

 tube, included or exserted, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Hypogy- 

 nous disc tubular annular or obsolete, free or connate with the ovary. 

 Ovary usually free, 2- 5-celled ; style single, stigma disciform or capitate; 

 ovules 2, rarely more, collateral or superposed, raphe ventral, micropyle 

 superior. Fruit capsular, drupaceous or baccate. Seeds exalbuminous or 

 sometimes with fleshy albumen, often enclosed in an aril. — Distrib. 

 About 700 species, mostly tropical. 



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