242 MeliaceCB. {Munronia, 



2. Melia. 



3. azadirachta, 



4. ClPADESSA. 



5. Aglaia. 



6. dvsoxylon. 



7. Pseudocarapa, 



8. Amoora. 



9. Walsura. 



Pet. distinct and free. 

 Pet. 5. 



Fl. bisexual. 



Fruit a drupe, stone 2-5-celled 

 Fruit a drupe, stone i -celled 

 Fruit a berry 

 Fl. polygamous 

 Pet. 4. 

 Disk tubular-cup-shaped 



No disk 



Pet. 3 



Fil. nearly distinct .... 

 Ovules several in each cell. Fr. very large . 10. Carapa 

 Seeds winged. 



Fil. connate into a tube 11. Chickrassia. 



Fil. distinct {Ccdrelece) 12. Chloroxylon. 



Of our 14 species none extend upwards out of the low country, except 

 Aglaia apiocarpa and Pseudocaj-apa. liTelia, Cipadcssa, Psctedocarapa, 

 Aglaia apiocarpa^ Amoora, Chickrassia, and Walsura Gardneri are con- 

 fined to the moist region ; Azadirachta and Chloroxylon to the dry ; the 

 rest occur in both, Carapa being a tree of mangrove swamps. Nearly all 

 afford fine timber. 



I. MUNRONIA,^ Wight. 



Small undershrubs ; 1. imparipinnate ; fl. few, large, race- 

 mose ; cal. very deeply 5 -cleft ; pet. 5, with long claws con- 

 nate into a tube ; staminal tube adnatc to cor.-tube below, 

 lO-toothed, anth. 10, alternating with teeth; ov. 5-celled, with 

 2 superposed ovules in each cell ; fruit a loculicidal, 5-valved 

 capsule, the valves also separating from axis ; seeds narrowly 

 winged, endosperm scanty. — Sp. 3 ; 2 in Fl. B. Iiid. 



M. pumila, Wight, Ic. t. 91 (1840). Bin-kohomba, S. 



Mclia pumila, Moon Cat. 35. Wight, 111. i. 147. Thw. Enum. 59. 

 C. P. 177- 



P'l. B. Ind. i. 543. Wight, Ic. t. 91. 



A very small shrub, with long, woody roots, stem 4-6 in., 

 unbranched, bark whitish ; 1. numerous, rather crowded, 

 spreading, pinnate, rachis strongly pubescent, Iflts. 1-2 pair 

 and a terminal one, very shortly stalked, oval, unequal at 

 base, acute, entire or coarsely lobed, pubescent above, densely 

 silky beneath, terminal one much largest; fl. 1 0-2 in., pedi- 

 cellate, about 2-4 in., in short, axillary pubescent racemes ; 

 sep. linear-oblong, subacute, leafy, hairy, persistent ; cor.-tube 

 \ in., slender, hairy, lob 2s oblong-oval, spreading ; stam.-tube 



* Named in honour of L "iut. Munro, 39th Foot, afterwards General 

 Munro, C.B., the well-known botanist and authority on Graminc.c. 



