Dysoxylmn.] 



XXXV. MELIACE^. 



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imbricate recurved. Stamen-tube cylindric, mouth dentate; 

 anthers 6, 8, or 10, included or tips exsert. Disc tubular as long 

 or longer than the ovary. Ovary 3- or 4-celled; ovules 2 in each 

 cell; style as long as stamen-tube. Capsule globose or pear- 

 shaped, with a pseudo-stalk; pericarp coriaceous white, yellow 

 or red i- to 4-celled. Seeds arillate. Species about 100, India, 

 Malaya and Australia. 



Flowers pentamerous. 



Small tree; leaflets small 5 in. long elliptic 

 cuspidate ; panicle short 

 Flowers tetramerous. 



Inflorescence panicled ; panicles slender lax 

 few-flowered. 

 Leaflets linear lanceolate flowers "6 in. 

 long; tree ..... 



Leaflets oblong lanceolate caudate ; flowers 

 •15 in. long; shrub .... 



Panicle long, flowers in dense heads, all 

 pubescent; leaflets oblique 6 in. long, 

 pubescent ...... 



Panicle with many spreading branches. 

 Leaves coriaceous nerveless ; fruit 4 in. 



long pear-shaped ; big tree . 

 Leaflets thin ; nerves conspicuously winged 

 Nerves of leaflets not winged. 

 Panicles short. 



Flowers 'i in. long; disc hairy 

 Disc glabrous ; flowers "25 in. long silky in 

 distant clusters ..... 



Flowers "2 in. long not silky; panicles 



elongate; branches spreading 

 Flowers "5 in. long white silky; panicle 

 rather short sometimes reduced to a 

 raceme (var.) ..... 



Flowers '2 in. long glabrous; panicle large 

 spreading ; branches over i ft. long 

 Flowers in racemes on the trunk. 



Leaflets oblique ovate; flowers '35 in. long; 

 fruit glabrous ..... 



Leaflets oblong lanceolate cuspidate ; flowers 



•25 in. long; fruit tomentose . 

 Leaflets oblong 5 by 3 in.; flowers i^ in. 

 long ; fruit tomentose .... 



Flowers in spikes on branches under 2 in. 

 long. 

 Leaflets opposite or subopposite. 



Disc 8- to g-toothed exceeding ovary 

 flowers "2 in. long .... 



Disc o or very small; flowers 'i^ in. long 

 Leaflets remote alternate .... 



(i) D. arborescens 



(2) D, angustifolium 



(3) D. dumosum 



(4) D. interrupturn 



(5) D. acutangulum 



(6) D. venulosum 



(7) D. thyrsoideum 



(8) D. turbinatum 



(9) D. costulatum 



(10) D. macrothyrsum 



(11) D. pulchrum 



(12) D. cauliflorum 



(13) D. flavescens 



(14) D. densiflorum 



(15) D. rugulosum 



(16) D. papillosum 



(17) D. alternatum 



(i) D. arborescens Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. iv. 24 ; King, 

 I.e. 38. D. Maingayi Hiern, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 547. 



Glabrous tree 20 to 30 ft. tall, 4 to 6 in. through. Leaves 

 6 to 9 in. long; leaflets 5 to 7 membranous elHptic caudate, base 



