20 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



eluded, like M. robusta, Roxb,, under M. composita, Willd. For fclie teeth 

 of the mouth of the staminal tube of the latter are at most bifid, while 

 itsiuuer surface is nearly £rlabrous. The only specimens of Melia known 

 to me which, fits Roxburgh's description in these and other respects, were 

 collected in Burma by the late S. Kurz, and were described by him 

 under the name M. binnnnica, (Journ. As, Soc. Bengal, 1874, ii, 183 ; 

 For. Flora Burmah, I, 213). And 1 know of no other specimens of M. 

 hirmanica than those of Kuiz's collecting. Certainly Maingay's No. 317 

 (Kew Distrib. ) is not the same, as I have determined by dissecting 

 flon-ers of both. 31. covijjosita, Willd., is not really very distinct from 

 the Japanese M. Toosedan, Sieb. and Zucc, which, in turn, is closely 

 allied to M. Azadirach. There ai-e, by the way, in the Calcutta Herba- 

 rium, specimens from the Khasia Hills, Munipore, the plains of Assam 

 and also from Sumatra, which, as far as I see, cannot be distinguished 

 from Japanese specimens of M. Toosedan. If this identification be cor- 

 rect, the geogi'aphical area of the latter species will have to be largely 

 extended. 



M. Azadirachta, Linn., is not found in the Malayan Provinces even 

 planted. But M. Azadarach, Linn., is very common planted. It pre- 

 sents several varieties, some of which have been elevated to the rank 

 of species. 



Roxburgh describes a Penang plant which he names Melia tomen- 

 tosa. Of this no specimen is known now to exist. But he left an 

 excellent coloured drawing of it in the Calcutta Herbarium, which shows 

 it to be no Melia but a Chisocheton. Jack describes (Malayan Miscel- 

 lanies I, 12) a Penang species which he named Melia excelsa. The only 

 specimens known of this are what Wallich issued (under this name) 

 as No. 1253 b. of his catalogue. The only Wallichian specimens of this 

 which 1 have seen are without flowers : they have simple long pinnate 

 leaves, and their fades is not that of Melia but of some other genus. 



2. Melia Azidarach, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I., 384. A small tree ; 

 young branches rather slender, at first scurfy-puberulous, afterwards 

 dark-coloured and glabrous. Leaves I '5 to 2 feet long, bi-pinnate, gla- 

 brous when adult ; pinnre about 3 pairs, the uppermost often 3-foliolate ; 

 pinnulse 5 to 7, opposite or sub-o]iposite, obliquely ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 acuminate, shortly petiolulate, 1"5 to 2 in. long, when young coarsely 

 serrate, when adult serrulate or sub-entire. Panicles shorter than the 

 leaves, shortly pedunculate, spreading, lax, few-flowered, at fiist stellate- 

 puberulous but ultimately glabrous. Floivers "35 in. long. Calyx-lobes 

 oblong-lanceolate, pubescent. Petals flat, oblanceolate-spathnlate, puber- 

 ulons. Siaminal tube lilac, expanding at the 30-toothcd mouth, glabrous 

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