554 xxxvu. MELIACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) [Sandoricnm. 



Staminal tube terminating in 8 or 10 subglabrate emarginate lobes. Flowers $ in. 

 long. Fruit (immature?) | in. long. 



3. S. Xttaing'ayl, Hiern; subglabrous, leaves elliptic subacuminate, 

 base obtuse, lateral nerves strong above depressed beneath, panicles snorter 

 than the leaves, pedicels equalling the flowers mostly exceeding the subulate 

 bracteoles, calyx fleshy obscurely toothed very minutely pilose. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A tree. Leaves about 6-8 in. ; leaflets 2-5 by 1^-3 in.; petiolules in.; terminal 

 one quasi-articulated neai: apex, l|-lf in. Flowers ^- in. long. Calyx -f in. long. 

 Petals white tinged with pink, glabrous, marked outside with pale glandular dots. 

 Mi'ii/hi.al till? ventrieose-cylindrical, contracted at the throat, ribbed externally and 

 5-lobed near the apex, each lobe obtusely 4-toothed, the 2 central teeth larger. Anthers 

 2-seriate. /Stigma subacute. Cfr. S. borneense, Miq. Ann. Mus. L>ot. Lugd.-Bat. 

 iv. 33. 



9. AGX.AXA, Lour. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous lepidote or stellately pubescent. Leaver pinnate 

 or trifoliolate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers polygamo-dicecious, minute 

 or small, numerous, paniculate, subglobose. Calyx 5-lobed, imbricated in 

 bud. Petals 5, concave, short, imbricated. Mnmin<il Inh-.- urceolate or sub- 

 globose, 5-tootbed at the apex or entire ; anthers 5, included orhalf-exserted, 

 erect. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary ovoid or shortly so, 1-3-celled, with 

 2-1 ovules in each cell ; style very short. ll< rrtj dry, 1-2-celled und -seeded. 

 Seeds with a fleshy integument. DISTRIB. Species about 5(), inhabiting 

 China, the Malay islands and the islands of the Pacific ocean, ;is well as 

 India. 



Milnea ? raccmosfi, Roomer Synops. i. 98 (Nyalelia racemosa, Dennstedt Schliiss. 

 Hort. Mai. 2;:. A>//,7, Beede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 16), lias, according to the figure, the 

 structure of the stamens incompatible with the Order Meliaceae. 



SECT. I. Slwots leaves and inflorescence lepidote or glabrous. 



* Leaflets 3-5, rarely 7. 



t Inflorescence lax, pedicels slender, about equalling the flowers. 



1. A. odorata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 173; glabrous <>r quickly becoming 

 so, leaflets obovate or oblong obtuse shortly petiolulate terminal one 

 longest, base cuneate, panicles rather lax, flowers on slender pedicels about 

 as long as themselves, ovary hairy. Wight Ic. t. 511; Miq. Ann. J/'/.s. 

 Lugd.-Bat. iv. 48; Wall Cat. 1275; Adr.Juss. in Mem. Mus. xix. t. 14, t. 7. 

 Camunium sinense, J!um/>li. Am!>. v. 28, t. 18, f. 1. C. chinense, lio.cb. 

 Hort. Beng. 18; Fl. I ml. i. (536. Opilia odorata, Spr. Sy*t. \ r e<j. i. 766. 

 Murraya exotica, Reinw. ex Miq. I.e. A. pentaphylla, Kurz ex Miq. l.c. 



EASTERN PENINSULA; Malacca, Penang, and Sincapore; (CEYLON, cultiv.). DISTRIB. 

 Siam, Java, China. 



An elegant shrub or small leafy tree ; extremities of young shoots covered with stel- 

 late ferruginous scales. Leaves 2-6 in. ; leaflets 1-3 by -l in. Flowers yellow, frag- 

 rant, T a T in. diaru. Often cultivated for its sweet-scented flowers. 



ft Inflorescence dense ; pedicels very short. 



2. A. khasiana, Hiern; leaves narrowly elliptical obtusely narrowed 

 towards both ends glabrescent on rather long petiolules, panicles short fer- 

 ruginous, branches short patent, flowers subsessile not minute. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 4-5000 ft., /. >. H. & T. T.; (?Sikkim, Himalaya, /. D. H.). 



