Melia.} MELIACEAE, 77 
3—5‘ X& 18/4—3', thick coriaceous and quite opaque, with prominent 
veins and a distinct intramarginal nerve. Panicles as before, but shorter, 
the fruiting pedicels 9‘. Follicle single, spe Mest 1’ long and 9” 
broad, pitted and concentrically rugose, almost woody, with a coriaceous, 
partly detached endocarp. Seed eset. shies , the hard woody and 
smooth testa covered with a black, shining, thin and brittle epidermis, 
the rhaphe extending along its entire length. Cotyledons thick fleshy, 
plano-convex, the radicle very short and enclosed. — Wawra, in Flora, 
onn m. no. 94 
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leaflets in such an extraordinary position, where they appear e appendages of t 
lowest posrapig n Araliads and among Sapindacene 
nig Capara, Pometia, and in Nephelium stipulacewm (vid. Hook. & Benth. Gen 
07). 
Fisk 
et sited t to the ae ok sy was are the murbaangany kcosnind differ ego in the 
entire indehiscent juicy o y fruit with pendulous exalbuminous seeds 0 axial 
placenta, the cells iad an oe yet the thickened rind. 
1. CITRUS, L. 
alyx aggre or cupular, 3—5-cleft. Petals 4—8. Stamens indefinite, ony omg 
artad es variously united at the base vary many-celled, with 4--8 ovules 
each cell. vee simple, articulate, with a mostly winged petiole. 
C. Aurantium, the Orange, C. Limetta, the Lime, C. medica, the Citron, €. Japonica, 
the Comquat, C. Vatgcogg- the Shaddock, have been long in domain and are often 
found in recesses of the deeper intr = that aad might almost claim a place in the 
flora, — poomeset exotica, L., is com n gardens 
Orprer XIX, b. MELIACEAE. 
Calyx 4—5-cleft. Petals 4—5. Stamens as many or several times as many, inserted 
in a hypogynous disk, monadelphous, t 
ia or on its inner — Ovary 3—5-celled, with simple style and generally 2 2 ovules 
auf ior with alternate pinnate leaves without stipules. 
1. MELIA, L. 
Calyx 5-cleft. eer. oblong-I _ Papo yap Staminal tube with 10 sessile anthers 
and twice as many teeth. Ovary celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell. 
Fruit a dryish racy with long ehanect and 1 pendulous seed in each cell. — Trees 
or shrubs, with pinnate or compound leaves a and mostly purple flowers in large axillary 
es. 
Here belongs Melia Azedarach, L., the Pride of India, ete over all islands by culti- 
vation. M, sempervirens Sw., a t tall shrub, is not uncomm 
