542 xxxvu. MELIACE.E. (W. P. Hiern.) 



or lateral clusters, shortly peduncled. Calyx shortly 5-fid, hairy. Staminul-tube about 



1 in. long, with 10 lanceolate teeth. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule % in. long, hairy, tieeds 

 not winged. 



2. T. villosa, Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 182; more or less pubescent with 

 short hairs, leaves elliptic or ovate shortly acuminate thin, base obtuse or 

 cuneate, flowers white, style far exserted, capsule glabrate. Wiylit Jc. t. 

 1593. Euonymus (sp.) Beddome Flor. tiylv. Anal. Gen. bdv. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; on the Anamallay and Mahableshwur hills; GCZERAT, at 

 Dolra, Hove in Hb. Banks. 



A large shrub or small tree. Leaves in flower usually about 1 in., in fruit 2-4 in. 

 and sometimes glabrate, entire, shortly petioled. Flowers sweet-scented, l-l in. 

 lonir, in axillary clusters or short racemes, 3-6 together, about double the Icn-tli of' the 

 peduncles. Calyx short, pubescent. .^tuiit null-tube f-1 in. long, glabrous as well as 

 the petals ; teeth very short. Ovary 5-celled.- Capsule, subglobose, about in. long. 

 Seeds not winged. 



2. NAREGAXKXA, W. & A. 



A small glabrous and shining undershrub. Leaiw trifoliolate. F^hiuclrs 

 axillary, solitary, 1-flowered. ( '"If/j- small, campanulate, o-clel't, deciduous. 

 < 5, free, elongate-spathnlite, imbricated in bud, at length >; reading 

 above. >^f" ' elongated, inflated above, obsoletely lo-crenate at 



the mouth; anthers in, terminal, shortly oblong, inserted at me crenatures of 

 the mouth, exserted,s>-turr:ons-apiculate. S)i*k annular. Oc<irn :j--d led, ovules 



2 collateral in each cell, pendoloOfl ; *tyl<- filiform, stigma capitate. CapsuU 

 ovoiil-globtise, ' -loiicd, :j-celled, loculicidally 3-valved; valves se])arating 

 from the 3-winged axis. ,s'.r/x 2 in each cell, albumen fleshy, embryo 

 foliaceous. DISTRIB. One Indian species, represented in Angola, West Tro- 

 pical Africa by a shortly hairy form scarcely likely to prove speciiically 

 distinct. 



1. N. alata, W. <( .-I. /V"//-. i. 117; leaflets sessile cuneate-obovate 

 quite entire or obtusely lobed, common jietioles winged. Wall. < 'at. 

 (;,<//<. Cut. Jjntl>. I'l. 30; Dah. <( (iH*. 1'xnn'i,. /-'/. :{(; ; iJrury 1ml. /'7. i. 161 ; 

 Wi>/h( lc. t. 90. N. uentata, J/^/. /// I'/. JIln nack. No. 71). Turnua alata, 

 Wight ex W: & A. I.e. l/t- >-,/,- ll,,,-t. Mai. x. t. 22. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; or the Western Ghats from the Concan southwards. Disri;ji;. 

 Angola (a pubescent form). 



Branches ereet or decumbent, from a few inches to 2 ft. long. Leaves 1-4 in. long; 

 terminal leaflets rather lai^er than the lateral ones and about the length of the common 

 pet i< ile. Flower* 1-1 1 in. long, cpuite white, longer than the puduucies. Style 

 yellow. 



3. MUNRONIA, Wight. 



Shrubs or undershrubs with trifoliolate or unequally pinnate leaves, 

 entire or coarsely toothed leaflets, elongated flowers, and axilhiry few- 

 flowered peduncles. Calyx 5-partite, short at least in flower, persistent, 

 subfoliaceous. Petals 5, elongate-spathulate, cohering half way. titaminal- 

 tube adnate below to the corolla, cylindrical, 10-toothed at the apex ; 

 anthers 10, terminal, alternating with the teeth, setaceous-apiculate. l)i*k 

 membranous, tubular, sheathing the ovary and base of the style. Ovary 5- 

 celled ; cells opposite the sepals, 2-ovuled ; style elongated, slender, stigma 

 capitate ; ovules superposed. Capsule depressed-globose, 5-lobed, coria- 

 ceous, loculicidally o-valved; valves separating from the 5-winged axis. 



