48 XXXIT. MELTACE^E. 



more or less united h\ a tube, whicli is entire or toothed at 

 the apex ; anthers sessile or subsessile on the stamina! tube, 

 included or exserted, erect, 2-celled. Disk various. Ovary- 

 free, 3-5-celled ; style simple ; stip;ma peltate. Ovules 2, 

 collateral. Fruit a capsule, drupe or berry. — Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate, exstipulate, mostly piunatipartite, in Tur- 

 rcea simple. 



Leaves simple. Petals and staniinal tube both rerj long 1. Ture^a. 

 Leaves simply pinnate. 



Fruit a dry, splitting capsule 2. Trichilia. 



Fruit a leathery, nearly juiceless, indehiscent, 2-5-celled 



berry . ' 3. Ekebeegia. 



Leaves doubly pinnate. Fruit a drupe 4. Melia. 



1. TURR^A, Linn. 



Calyx cup-shaped, 6-toothed. Petals 5, very long, strap- 

 shaped, convolute in bud. Stamens 10, connate in a long tube, 

 10-toothed at the summit ; anthers sessile between the teeth. 

 Ovary sessile, 5-10-20-celled ; style 1 ; stigma thickened. 

 Capsules 5-celled, cells 2-1-seeded, the valves septiferous. 

 Seeds compressed. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 244. 



Shrubs, with alternate, simple leaves. Flowers on short twigs, solitary 

 or tufted. — 2 South African species, natives of the Eastern frontier and 

 Natal. 



2. TRICHILIA, Linn. 



Calyx short, 4-5-toothed or cleft. Petals 4-5, erect or 

 spreading, imbricate. Staminal tube 8-10-cleft or 8-10-parted, 

 rarely entire, the segments linear, entire or 2-toothed, bearing 

 anthers between or on the teeth ; anthers erect, exserted. 

 Disk annular. Ovary sunk in the disk, 2-3-celled ; style long 

 or short ; stigma 2-3-lobed. Capsules coriaceous, 2-3-celled, 

 2-3-valved.— i^Z. Cap. i. p. 246 ; Thes. Cap. t. 76. 



Trees or shrubs, chiefly American. Leaves pinnate. Flowers in axillary 

 panicles. — 3 South African species, all found near Natal. 



3. EKEBERGIA, Sparm. 



Calyx short, 4-5 -fid ; the lobes obtuse, imbricate. Petals 

 4-5, scarcely longer than the calyx, elliptical or oblong, imbri- 

 cate in bud. Stamens 10, united in a short, campanulate, 

 10-toothed tube ; the teeth bearing anthers. Ovary 4-5-celled, 

 girt by an annular disk ; style short, thick ; stigma obsoletely 

 lobed. Berry dry, leathery, globose, 4-5-celled, 1-5-seeded. 

 Seeds arillate. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 246. 



E. Capensh, Sp., the only species, is a handsome, ash-like tree, native of 

 the Eastern district, Call'raria, and Natal. 



