Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsnla. 17 



Key to the Genera. 

 StaDiens'innted in a tube. 



*Cclls of ovary with 1 or 2 ovules in each. 



Leaflets serrate ; fruit drupaceous ... ... 1. Melia. 



Leaflets entire ; fruit baccate or capsular. 



Flowers and stamina! tube narrow, elongate ; style elongate. 

 Stigmas 5 or 5-toothed ; leaves trifoliolate ; fruit 



baccate ... ... ... 2. Sandoricum. 



Stigmas entire, single; leaves pinnate; fruit capsular 

 or sub-capsular. 

 Petals in 2 rows ; ovary 7- to 9-celled, with 1 ovule 



in each cell ; disk short, inferior to ovary 3. Megaphylljia. 

 Petals iu a single row ; ovary 2-to 4-celled. 



Disk short, atiuular; ovules solitary in tlie cells 



of the ovary ... ... 4. CtiisoCHETON. 



Disk cyliudric, longer than the ovary ; ovules 2 



in each cell of the ovary ... 5. Dvsoxylum. 



Flowers and staminal tube globose or turbinate, style 

 short or absent. 



Anthers included or incurved. 



Petals 3; fruit dehiscent or not ... 6. Amooba, 



Petals 5; fruit indehiscent. 



Style none ... ... 7. Aglaia 



Style short, thick ... ... 8. Lansidm. 



Anthers exserted, never incurved, only partially united 

 into a tube (in two species of TFaZs?tra not united.) 

 Petals 5 ; fruit baccate, indehiscent ... 9. Walsura 



Petals 4 or 5 ; fruit capsular, dehiscent 10. Heynea, 



**Cells of ovary 2- to 8-ovuled; stigma discoid ; fruit caj>sular ; 



seeds large, fleshy, not winged ... ... 1]. Carapa. 



*** Cells of ovary with numerous ovules in each ; stio-nia 



capitate ; fruit capsular ; seeds thin, winged 12. Chickrassia. 

 Stamens distinct. 



Cells of ovary 8- to 12-ovuled; seeds membranous, wino-ed 



13. Cedrela. 

 Cells of ovary with 1 or 2 ovules, fruit baccate ; seeds not 



winged ... ... ... ... 9. Walsub^. 



1. Melia, Linn. 



Trees with pinnate or 2- 3-pinnate leaves, toothed or entire leaflets 

 and panicled axillary flowers ; pubescence often stellate-mealy. Cahj.r 

 shoit, 5-6 lobed, imbricated. Petals 5-6, fice, spathulafce-oblong, patent, 



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