Melia.] xxxvn. MELIACE^E. (W. P. Hiern.) 54o 



5. IH. dubia, Cav. Diss. (vii.) 364 (1789) ; leaves bipinnate or occa- 

 sionally tripinnate, ultimate leaflets 2-1 1 opposite ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 entire or crenate-serrate acuminate, base more or less oblique, panicles mealy 

 with stellate hairs rather dense, calyx-lobes ovate, petals mealy, anthers 

 exceeding the numerous short subulate teeth of the hairy mouth of the 

 white staminal tube, ovary 5-celled, fruit with 5 or fewer cells and seeds. 

 M. composite, Willd. Sp. PI ii. 559 (1799), not of De Candolle ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 117; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 36; Thwaites Enum. 59; JBedd. Fl. 

 Svlvat. t, 12; Brandis For. Flor. 69. M. superba, Roxb. Ilort. Beng. 33; 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 396 ; Wall. Cat. 1254. M. robusta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 397. M. australasica, Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. xix. 257. M. aethio- 



Eica, Welw. Apontam. Phyto-qeogr. Prov. Angola, 584. M. Bombolo, Wdw. 

 c. 561. M. argentea, Hb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 1254, C. 



The EASTERN and WESTERN PENINSULAS ; BIRMA and CEYLON; wild and cultivated. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Australia, and Angola. 



A large handsome tree. Leaves 9-24 in. ; leaflets f-3 by |-14 in. Flowers greenish- 

 white, fragrant, \-\ in. long. Drupe ellipsoidal, | in. or more long. By the kindness 

 of Dr. Koeper, Professor of Botany at the University of Rostock, I have been enabled 

 to examine the original specimen of M. dubia, Cav., and to ascertain its identity 

 with M. composita, Willd. 



5. CIFADESSA, Blume, (Mallea, Juss.). 



Shrubs or small trees with odd-pinnate leaves, opposite or subopposite 

 coarsely serrate or entire leaflets, axillary peduncled panicles and sul> 

 globose flowers. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, oblong, 

 rather short, spreading, free, valvate in bud. Staminal tube deeply 10-lobed, 

 adnate below to the disk, lobes linear, bifid at the apex ; anthers short, 

 inserted between the teeth, subapiculate. D-isk shortly' cup-shaped, wholly 

 adnate to the base of the staminal tube. Ovary 5-celled ; cells alternate 

 with the 4 calyx-lobes : style rather short, stigma clavate-capitate ; oviiles 

 two, collateral, pendulous. Drupe slightly fleshy, 5-ribbed, 5-celled ; ribs 

 -d&ernate with the calyx-lobes ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds with fleshy albu- 

 men ; embryo subfoliaceous. DISTEIB. A genus of 2 species, limited to 

 India and^the Malay Archipelago. 



1. C. Jruticosa, Blume Bijd. 162 ; leaflets 7-11 ovate or elliptic entire 

 serrate pubescent on the nerves beneath, ovary glabrous. C. 

 ? Mig.. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 6. C. ? subscandens, Miq. I.e. 7. 

 baccifera, Roth Nov. Sp. 215. Ekebergia indica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33; 

 R 392 ; Wall. Cat, 1256. E. ? integerrima, Wall. Cat. 1257. Mallea 

 r. Juss. in M?m. Mus. xix. 222, t. 13, f . 6 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 118 ; 

 . Bomb. PI. 31 ; Thwaites Enum. 60 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 37 ; 

 FL Sylv. Anal. Gen. liv. t. 8, f. 5. M. integerrima, Wall, ex Voigt 

 fort. Sun. Calc. 134. M. subscandens, Teysm. & Binnend. in Nat. Tidjdschr. 

 jtfk Ind. xxvii. 39. Melia montana, Hb. Madr. ex Wall. Cat. 1256, D. 



Wjj0h.i;\ PENINSULA; from the Concan and Gircars southwards to CEYLOX. 

 Java. 



A much branched shrub, erect or in dense moist forests somewhat scandent. Leaves 

 J^fin. ; leaflets 1-34 by 4~U i n -> shortly petiolulate. Flowers - in. long; 

 panicles mostly on long peduncles. Fruit ^- in. diam. 



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