MELIACEAE. 173 
CEDRELA. False Cedar. 
(Family Meliaceae). 
Rather smooth-barked loosely 
branched trees: deciduous. Twigs 
coarse, terete: pith large, homoge- 
neous, roundish, from white _ be- 
coming colored. Buds _ solitary, 
sessile, short-ovoid, with about 4 
short-pointed exposed scales, the 
end-bud much larger. Leaf-scars 
alternate, cordately elliptical- 
shield-shaped, slightly raised, 
large: bundle-traces 5: stipule- 
sears lacking. 
Wood of the West-Indian and 
Central American cedar, C. odora- 
ta, out of which the better cigar 
boxes are made, resembles mahog- 
any in many respects. The cheap 
grade of cigar boxes is made of 
sycamore wood, the heavy medul- 
lary rays of which are very char- 
acteristic. The Asiatic hardy ce- 
drela presents much the appearance of ailanthus. The win- 
ter-characters of C. sinensis are considered by Schneider, f. 
99; and Shirasawa, 232, pl. 2. 
Twigs puberulent. C. sinensis. 
