540 xxxvi. BURSERACE^:. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [FiUcium. 



Thwaites, 1. c. 59, and in Hook. Kew Journ. Eot. vi. 66, t. i. B. Rhus deci- 

 piens, W. & A. Prodr. 172 ; Wi>//tt III. i. 184, t. Ib.Burm. Fl Ztyl. t. 45. 

 WESTERN PENINSULA; throughout the Western Ghats ascending to 4-5000 ft., Bed- 

 dome; CEYLON, in the central province, ascending to 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



ORDER XXXVII. MELIACE4B. (By W. P. Hiern, M.A.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, usually pinnate rarely 

 simple or bipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, usually quite entire and 

 more or less oblique at base. Finwr* hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious, 

 regular, usually in axillary panicles. Calfp- 3-<5-lobed rarely entire or with 

 free sepals, usually imbricated in bud. Pc(<t/x :*-<;. free or rarely connate at 

 the base, sometimes adhering to the lower half of the stamina] tube, val vate 

 imbricated or contorted, titamens 4-12, inserted outside the base of the 

 hypogynous disk, filaments connate in a tube or rarely free ; anthers erect, 

 usually sessile on the tube, included or exserted, 2-celled, longitudinally 

 dehiscing. //#/*"/// >/.o//>- <//.</ tubular annular or obsolete, free or connate 

 with the ovary. '6wy usually free, 2-5 : celled ; style single, stigma disci- 

 form or capitate; ovules 2, rarely more, collateral or superposed, raphe 

 ventral, micropyle superior. Fruit capsulaf drupaceous or b;',<-cate. 

 exalbuminous or sometimes with fleshy albumen, often ein-losed in an 

 aril. DISTRIB. About :joo species, mostly tropical, widely spread over both 

 hemispheres. Miquel enumerates 113 species as occurring in the Indian 

 Archipelago. 



enia .Valiaironi, J.'m-n. (Mahogany) has been successfully cultivated n< 

 cutta ami in Sikldm (J , ; it is a native of the West Indies and 



Central Africa. 



In the development of the flower of this Order the staminal-tube and the style are 

 late in completing their growth. 



Heynichia mallet. ides. A"//,, /ml. X< in. J/ort. Berol. 1844 Coll. wlnnt. S, supposed 

 to liav.- cnim- iVom Mast India, is a siK-cies of Moschoxyluin, near M. elogaiis, A. Ju88., 

 and probably came from South America. 



TRIBE I. BXelieee. Leaflets often toothed. Stamens united into a 

 tube. Cell A o/'om/v/ l-2-ovu'led. Meeds not winged, albumen thin fleshy; 

 cotyledons thin, foliaceous. 

 Leaves simple 1. TURR^A. 



Leaves trit'oliolate pinnate or 2-3-pinnate. 

 Flowers (.'loiipitfd. Style long. 



Petioles winged. Ovules collateral 2. XAKKCAMIA. 



Petioles not winged. Ovules superposed. 



lH.sk tubular. Petals cohering half way. Fruit capsular, 



loculicidally 5-valved 3. MUXRONIA. 



Disk annular. Petals free. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent 4. MKLIA. 

 Flowers globose. Style rather short 5. CIPADESSA. 



TRIBE II. Trichilieae. Lea/lets entire. Stamens united into a tube 

 (free in one species of Wnlsura). Cells of ovary 1-2-ovuled (2-5-ovuled in 

 Carapa). Seeds not winged, albumen ; cotyledons thick. 



Flowers and staminal-tube oblong or linear. Style elongated. 

 Capsule loculicidal. Leaves pinnate. 



Flowers oblong. Anthers short. Ovules 2 together, rarely 



solitary 6. DYSOXYLUM. 



Flowers linear or oblong. Anthers linear. Ovules solitary . 7. CHISOCHETON. 

 Berry indehisceut. Leaves trifoliolate 8. SANDORICUM. 



