500 MELIACE. 
hypogynus, ovaria basi cingens. Ovar. glab. 3-loculare, locu- 
lis 2-ovulatis ovulis pendulis collateral. foram. superum hilum 
prope. Pl. DLXXXV. Fig. V. single ovules attached to the 
Placenta. 
Gen. discedit. ovaria 3 nec 5 loculare. 
An Melia excelsa Jack, sed charactere DeCandollii erroneus 
Has. Circa Mergue, an culta: Dec. 1834 
2. Melia azadarachta. 
Arbor. Folia pinnata, dimidiato-ovatze, acuminata, prone 
dentato-serrata, ad apices ramorum conferta. 
Inflorescentia axillaris terminalisque, racemoso-paniculata. 
Flores albi redolentes bracteata, bracteis caducis. Æstiv. 
corol. imbricat. 
al. 5-sep. sepalis ovatis. 
Cor. 5-pet. petalis lanceolatis sepalis alternis patentibus 
stamina hypogyna, biserialia, sepalorum numero duplex. 
Filam. in tubum coalita. Tubus ad apicem 10-lobus, quo- 
rum | cuique antherz respondit, lobis 5 exterior sepalis, 5 
interior petalis oppositis. Antherz ad apicem tubi, longitud. 
et introrsum dehiscentes. 
Stylas I tubo stamineo brevior filiformis. Stigma submi- 
trzeformes. Ovarium 3-locul. loculis 2-ovulat. ovulis pendulis. 
Oss. Development. The younger the bud is, the less is the 
development of the tubus stamineus and style compared cri 
that of the anthers and stigma. In a bud, in which 
corolla is double the bu of the calyx, the anthers are 
very large, the lobes of the tube small, not reaching ha 
way up the back of the anthers, while the tube its 
ed but almost sessile. 
af scarcely - 
exceeds in length the anther. The stigma is well develop- 
