Fam. 30. MELIACEJ!. 



Trees or shrubs without (exc. Chloroxylon) trauslucent 

 glands in the leaves. L. alt. pinnate (2-3-pinnate in Melia) 

 exstipulate. Fls. regular, usually in axillary panicles. 

 Calyx 3-6-toothed, -partite, or sub-entire. Pet. 3-6, sometimes 

 cohering at the base. St. 4-12 usually twice as many as the 

 petals, more or less completely nnited (except in Cedreleee) 

 into a tube outside the disc, tube often tootbed. Disc rarely 

 absent, frequently tubular and sheathing the ovary, sometimes 

 adnate to the st. tube. Ovary usually free, 2-5- rarely 

 6-celled. Style 1, stigma disciform or capitate. Ovules 2 

 or more in each cell, rarely solitary. Seeds sometimes arilled 

 or winged. Albumen thin or absent. 



Note.— Chloroxylon is chiefly distinguished from the RutaceaB by its 

 numerous ovules and winged seeds. 



A. Ovules several or many. Seeds winged. 



I. St. not united into a tube (Tribe Cedreleae). 

 Perfect st. 10, L. gland-dotted , . . .1. Chloroxylon. 

 Perfect st. 4r6,;L. not gland-dotted . . . 2. Cedrela. 



II. St. united into a tube (Tribe Swietieniese) 



Ovary 5-celled. Capsule 5-valved 3. Soymida. 



Ovary 3-celled. Capsule 3-valved (rarely ovary and 



capsule 4-5-celled) 4. Chickrassia. 



B. Ovules 1-2 in each Cell. Seeds not winged, St. united 



into a tube. 



I. Albumen thin. Cotyledons foliaceous. Leaflets 

 often toothed (Tribe Melieae). Petals usually 

 spreading. 



St. tube oblong. L. pinnate. Tree. . N . . 5. Azadirachta. 

 St. tube oblong. L. 2-3-pin»ate. Tree . . . 6. Melia. 

 St. tube very short. A shrub 7. Cipadessa. 



II. Albumen 0. Cotyledons thick. Leaflets entire 

 (Tribe Trichilie®). Petals usually erect orsub- 

 eroct (exc. 9). 



Petals shortly oblong. Disc annular. Lflts. 5-11 . 8. Heynea. 



Petals ovate-oblong, spreading. Disc annular. 

 Lflts. 3 9. Walsura. 



Petals narrowly oblong. Disc tubular . . .10. Dysoxylum. 

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