20G XXXVI, MELIACE^. 



2. Melia composita, WilM. ^p. PI (1799) v. 2, p. 559. A tall 

 haiulsouie tree ; young branches densely clothed with stellate pubescence, 

 ultimately smooth. Leaves bi- sometimes tri-piunate, 9-30 in. long ; 

 ultimate leaflets 5-11, opposite, |-3 by ^-1| in. (the terminal the 

 largest), from ovate-lanceolate to ovate-rotund, acute or acuminate, 

 entire or crenulate, thinly stellately pubescent on both surfaces when 

 young, at length glabrous, base acute or rounded, more or less oblique ; 

 main nerves 7-8 pairs ; petiolules ^— j in. long. Flowers greenish-white, 

 i in. long, fragrant, in stellately pubescent many-flowered branched 

 panicles shorter than the leaves ; peduncles long ; pedicels short. Calyx 

 stellately tomentose outside, deeply divided ; lobes ovate, erect, ciliate. 

 Petals ^ in. long, linear-spathulate, concave, pubescent outside, pube- 

 rulous within, ciHate. Staminal-tube scarcely i in. long, slightly ex- 

 panded at the mouth, 10-toothed (the teeth bifid), silky puberulous on 

 both surfaces ; anthers exserted, pubescent, longer than the teeth. 

 Ovary glabrous, 5-celled ; style a little longer than the staminal-tube, 

 overtopped by the apiculate anthers ; stigma cylindric, 5-toothed, teeth 

 erect. Drupes ovoid or ellipsoid, 1-1 g in. long, smooth, yellowish. 

 Seed 1 in each cell, smooth, pointed. Grab. Cat. p. 30 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 36; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 12; Brandis, For. Fl. p. 69; King, in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 64, p. 18. Ilelia dnhia, Hiern (not of Cav.), 

 Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 545; DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 1, p. 453; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 223 (excluding from all three the syn. M. superba, 

 Eoxb.) ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 39 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 269. Melia robusta, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. p. 33.— Flowers : 

 Mar. Yern. Kadu-Miajur ; Kdla-hhajur. 



I have followed Sir G. King in the separation of this species from 

 M. dubia, Cav., with which it had been united by Mr. Hiern, Fl. B. I. 

 I. c. The reasons given by Sir G. King (I. c.) for its separation appear 

 quite conclusive. 



KoNKAN : billy parts of the Konkan, Graham. Deccan : Malshiras, Purandar 

 taluka, Kanitka,r\; Paro;hat, Dahell tj- Gibson. S. M. Countky : on the Gatparba 

 river, Ritchie, 1021 ! Kanara : common on the Supa Ghats, Talbot ; Hariiiar and 

 Yacombi, Woodrow. — Distkib. India generally ; Australia, Angola. 



4. CIPADESSA, Blume. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or subopposite, iioparipinnate 

 or 3-foliolate ; leaflets entire or coarsely serrate. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 in axillary panicles. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 

 5-10 ; filaments United below into a short tube, free above, 2-toothed 

 at the apex, antheriferous between the teeth ; anthers short. Disk 

 cupular, adnate to the base of the staminal-tube. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, collateral ; style short ; stigma capitate. Fruit 

 baccate, subfleshy, 5-ribbed, 5-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds angled ; 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo curved ; cotyledons oblong ; radicle superior. — 

 DiSTRiB. India, Java; species 4. 



1. Cipadessa fruticosa, Blume, Bijdr. (1825) p. 162. A small 

 much-branched shrub ; young parts silky. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 4-9 in. long ; leaflets 3-6 pairs and an odd one, opposite, U-S^ by 

 ^-1| in., elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, very coarsely serrate, 

 rarely subentirc, glabrous except the nerves which are more or less hairy ; 



