XXXIT. MELTACE^. 49 



4. MELIA, Linn. 



Calyx small, 5-fid. Petals 5, linear-obloni^, spreading, con- 

 volute in bud. Stamens 10, the filaments connate into a 20- 

 tootbed tube, the anthers sessile within the throat of the tube. 

 Ovary on a raised torus, 5-celled ; style filiform ; stigma 

 5-angled. Drupe with a 5-furrowed and 5-celled bony stone. 

 —Fl. Cap.lp. 245. 



M. AzedaracJi, Linn., the " Cape Lilac," or " Pride of Cliina," is cultivated 

 throughout the colony, and partly naturalized. 



Order XXXIII. CHAILLETIACE^. 



Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Sepals 5, free or connate, 

 coriaceous, imbricate. Petals 5, inserted at the base of the ca- 

 lyx, and rather longer, free and equal or connate and unequal, 

 with broad claw and narrow 2-fid limb, tipped by an inflexed 

 process, which is connate with the margins of the lobes of the 

 petals. Stamens 5, inserted with the petals, alternating with 

 the lobes of the disk or with hypogynous glands ; anthers ob- 

 long, 2-celled. Hypogynous glands 5, scale-like. Ovary free, 

 2-3-celled ; ovules in pairs, pendulous ; styles 2-3, free or 

 partly united. Pruit drupaceous. — Trees or shrubs, chiefly 

 tropical. 



1. CHAILLETIA, DC. 



Calyx 5-parted. Petals separate, broad-clawed, deeply 2- 

 parted or 2-fid. Stamens 5, equal ; anthers oblong, the con- 

 nective thickened. Hypogynous glands 5, opposite the petals, 

 distinct or united in a 5-lobed disk. Ovary subglobose ; styles 

 1-3, free or connate, short or long and slender. Drupe 

 leathery, dry, 1-2-celled. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 450. 



Chiefly tropical. C. cymosa, Hk. Ic. t. 591, our only South African spe- 

 cies, is a very dwarf, little branched, leafy, villous shrub. Leaves 3-4 

 inches long, 6-10 lines wide, alternate, crowded, narrow-oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous and netted-veined. Cymes shorter than the leaves. Found at 

 Aapjes river, by Burke and Zeyher. 



Order XXXIY. OLACINE^. 



Plowers regular, perfect or unisexual. Calyx small, 4-5- 

 toothed, lobed or parted. Petals 4-5, free or connate in a 

 monopetalous corolla, valvate or minutely subimbricate. Sta- 

 mens 4-10, inserted with the petals and often more or less 

 adnate to them ; filaments mostly free ; anthers 2-celled 

 Disk annular or 4-5-divided. Ovary free, 1-celled (or spuri- 



