550 xxxvir. MELIACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) [Dysoxylum. 



divisions slightly cremilate at the margins ; stamens 10 ; ovary 5-celled, each cell con- 

 taining 1 subhorizontal ovule ; seeds with an incomplete orange arillus. 



7. CKISOCHETON, Blume. (Sckizochiton.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, quite entire, opposite or subopposite: 

 leaflets more or less oblique. Panicles supra-axillary divaricately branched 

 many-flowered, rarely axillary or flowers in spicate racemes ; flowers poly- 

 gamo-dicEcious. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, very 

 rarely 6, usually linear-elongated, Long cohering in a tube especially below, 

 at length spreading, somewhat imbricated or valvate. Stamiftal tube elon- 

 gated, slender, tubular, 4-8-lobed at the apex, lubes entire or toothed; 

 anthers linear, equal in number to and alternate with the lobes, included 

 or somewhat exserted. JJuk short and fleshy or tubular. Ovary short, 2-4- 

 celled; style filiform, usually exceeding the staminal tube, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules usually one in each cell. CaptuU subglobose, thickly cori;; 

 celled, loculicidally 2-4-valved. >'*./.. usually enclosed in an imperfect aril, 

 bile usually suborbicular or oval ; cotyledons usually peltate. DKTBIB, A 

 genus of about 12 species confined to Eastern India and the Indian Archi- 

 pelago. 



SECT. I. Racemes spicate. 



1. C. spicatus, hi'-rn ; leaflets 4 or 6 opposite elliptic or oblong 

 acuminate glabn .-cent, base cuneato shortly petiolulate, racemes spicute 

 axillary, calyx entire, staminal tube obtusely 5-G-toothed, anthers 5-(i. 



MALACCA, Mdhujtii/.. 



A tree about 30 1't. high. Young parts and inflorescence, pale tawny, pvbendent. 

 Leaves 8-12 in., terminating in a growing {mint ; leallets 2 (5 by l|-2 in., but little, 

 oblique, ^jiiki-s 4-tl in., about double tin- k-ngth of the- conniioti peduncle : llowcrs sub- 

 ses>ile, 4~'i in. long; bracteoles ovate, .small. l'< (<(!< 4. titm/iim/l tube appv 

 pubescent on both sides. Fruit (immature) attenuate at both ends, especially to- 

 wards apex, obsoletely tomentose. 



SECT. II. Flowers panicled. 

 * Antliers 5 orftw< r. 



2. C. ery throe arpus, ITiern; leaflets 10-12 opposite elliptic or 

 oblong obtusely cuspiduto glabrate above, base obtuse, panicles about half 

 the length of the leaves mauy-rKnvered supra-axillary, anthers 5, disk in- 

 conspicuous, fruit globose base stipitate. 



MAI.UVA, Mui.ngay. 



Young parts petioles petiolules and fruit tawny and shortly tomentose. Leaves ter- 

 minating in growing points, about 1 ft. long or more; leaflets 3-6 by 1^-2 in. ; petio- 

 lules k~\ in. Flowers ^ in. long ; pedicels short. Calyx 3-5-toothed. I^-tnh 

 5, valvate. Staminal tube truncately 5-tootbed at a])cx, pubescent on both sides, teeth 

 centrally emarginate, truncate ; anthers 5, included. Ovary 2-?-celled; ovtdes solitary. 

 Fruit bright blood-red. Setds exarillate, 1 in. long ; testa very thick, coriaceous, bright 

 orange ; hile f-^ in. diam. 



3. C. penduliflorus. Planch, mss. in Hb. Kew.; tawny velvety, leaf- 

 lets 10-11 opposite elliptic or ovate or upper ones obovate cuspidate base 

 rounded or subcordate except of the upper leaflets, panicles elongated 

 supra-axillary very narrow pendulous, flowers 4-5-merous elongated, calyx 

 toothed or entire, staminal tube appressedly pilose outside below its 3-5 

 lobes, sparingly pilose inside below the middle, lobes deeply emarginate, 

 anthers 3-5 included sessile, style very slender glabrous above pilose below, 

 disk glabrous free short cupular fleshy. Melia penduliflora, Wall Cat. n. 1255. 



