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4. MELIA, Linn. 
Calyx small, 5-fid. Petals 5, linear-oblong, spreading, con- 
volute in bud. Stamens 10, the filaments connate into a 20- 
toothed tube, the anthers sessile within the throat of the tube. 
Ovary on a raised torus, 5-celled; style filiform; stigma 
5-angled. Drupe with a 5-furrowed and 5-celled bony stone. 
—Fl. Cap. i. p. 245. 
M. Azedarach, Linn., the “ Cape Lilac,” or “ Pride of China,’’ is cultivated 
throughout the colony, and partly naturalized. 
Orper XXXII. CHAILLETIACER. 
Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Sepals 5, free or connate, 
coriaceous, imbricate. Petals 5, inserted at the base of the ca- 
lyx, and rather longer, free and equal or connate and unequal, 
with broad claw and narrow 2-fid limb, tipped by an inflexed 
process, which is connate with the margins of the lobes of the 
petals. Stamens 5, inserted with the petals, alternating with 
the lobes of the disk or with hypogynous glands ; anthers ob- 
long, 2-celled. Hypogynous glands 5, scale-like. Ovary free, 
2-8-celled ; ovules in pairs, pendulous; styles 2-3, free or 
partly united. Fruit drupaceous—Trees or shrubs, chiefly 
tropical. 
1. CHAILLETIA, DC. 
Calyx 5-parted. Petals separate, broad-clawed, deeply 2- 
parted or 2-fid. Stamens 5, equal; anthers oblong, the con- 
nective thickened. Hypogynous glands 5, opposite the petals, 
distinct or united in a 5-lobed disk. Ovary subglobose ; styles 
1-8, free or connate, short or long and slender. Drupe 
leathery, dry, 1-2-celled.— #7. Cap. 1. p. 450. 
Chiefly tropical. ©. cymosa, Hk. Ie. t. 591, our only South African spe- 
cies, is a very dwarf, little branched, leafy, villous shrub. Leaves 3-4 
inches long, 6-10 lines wide, alternate, crowded, narrow-oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous and netted-veined. Cymes shorter than the leaves. Found at 
Aapjes river, by Burke and Zeyher. 
Orper XXXIV. OLACINE. 
Flowers regular, perfect or unisexual. Calyx small, 4-5- 
toothed, lobed or parted. Petals 4-5, free or connate in a 
monopetalous corolla, valvate or minutely subimbricate. Sta- 
mens 4-10, inserted with the petals and often more or less 
adnate to them; filaments mostly free; anthers 2-celled. 
Disk annular or 4-5-divided. Ovary free, 1-celled (or spuri- 
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