Munronia.] xxxvu. MELIACE.E. (W. P. Hiern.) 543 



'/SWs winged, albumen thin. DISTRIB. Three species confined to India 

 and the Malay Archipelago. 



1. BX. pumila, Wight Ic. t. 91 ; III. i. 147 ; leaflets 3 rarely 4-5 elliptic- 

 lanceolate terminal one longer, peduncles axillary few-flowered crowded 

 near the top of the short stem. Thwaites Enum. 59. Melia pumila, Moon 

 Cat. 35. 



CEYLON ; not uncommon in the warmer parts of the Island. 



More or less hirsute, 3-6 in. above the ground ; leaves about as long ; petiole 

 scarcely half'cis long; lateral leaflets subsessile ; terminal one 1^~3^ in. long. Flotccrs 

 1$-14 in. long, white, somewhat hairy outside. Peduncles short, bracteate. 8ta- 

 minal-tube with subulate teeth. Fruit f in. diam., hairy. Much valued in India as a 

 medicinal plant. 



2. M. Wallichii, WiyM III i. 147 ; leaflets 5-9 usually 7 opposite or 

 subopposite lanceolate or ovate lateral ones very shortly petioled, base 

 obliquely rounded or rarely cuneate, peduncles axillary bearing a few 

 fascicled flowers crowded at the top of the stem. Turra^a pinnata, Watt. 

 PL As. Rar. ii. 21, t. 119. M. neilgherrica, Wight III. i. 147, t. 54. 



EASTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA, in Sikkim. KHASIA MTS. NILGHIRI MTS. at Koondah 

 Ghat. 



A shrub. Leaves approximated at the ends of the branches, 6-12 in. ; leaflets 

 1-5 in. by f-1^ in.; petiole 2-4 in. Flowers 1-1| in. long, pale rose or white, hairy 

 outside. Peduncles 1 in. long, hairy, bent downwards after flowering, bracteate. Sta- 

 minal-tube with short subulate teeth. Fruit 4~t in. diam., hairy. 



4. XKESXiXA, Linn. 



Trees with pinnate or 2-3-pinnate leaves, toothed or entire leaflets and 

 panic-led axillary flowers ; pubescence often stellate-mealy. Catyx short, 

 5-6-lobed, imbricated. Petals 5-6, free, spathulate-oblong, patent, imbri- 

 cated in bud. Staminal-tube cylindrical, dilated at base and apex, 10- or 

 12-striate and -toothed ; anthers 10 or 12, included or partly exserted, short, 

 inserted near apex. Disk annular. Ovary 3-6-celled ; cells alternate to the 

 sepals when equal in number to them ; style slender, nearly as long as the 

 tube, stigma capitate ; ovules ^ superposed. Fruit drupaceous, tieeds 

 with thin fleshy albumen ; cotyledons foliaceous. DISTHIB. A genus con- 

 taining scarcely more than the following five species. 



Melia latifalia, in Griff. Itin. Notes, ^fttQ2, is a misprint for Melica latifolia, JRoxb. 



- 

 * Leaves simply pinnate. 



1. M. tomentosa, Roxb. Hcpt, Rehg. :M ; Fl Ind. ii. 394; leaves 

 simply pinnate, leaflets subsessilej 20 oft more opposite lanceolate acumi- 

 nate needle-pointed firmly coriaceo^ base obtuse, panicles spike-like on 

 long peduncles, flowers 5-merous, teeth of stammal tube linear-oblong 

 notched about equalling the anthers, ovary 5-celled. 



PENANG, Roxburgh. 



A large tree, with the young parts petioles lower surface of leaflets bracts calyx ex- 

 terior of petals interior of staminal-tube ovary and style downy. Leaves 6 ft. or more 

 lonj; continuing to expand leaflets at the apex ; leaflets ranging up to 1 ft. Flowers 

 pretty large, very numerous, crowded. Bracts subulate. Calyx cup-shaped, subentire. 

 Young fruit 5-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. There is a coloured drawing of this 

 plant amongst Roxburgh's jfr&wings; in the Kew Herbarium, but no specimen. 



