Melia.] MELIACEAE. 175 



loculicidally 3-valved, the valves separating from the 3-winged 

 axis, the cells 2-seeded. Seeds pendulous, curved, truncate at 

 both ends, muricate, with a short double membrane along the 

 side next the axis ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous. 

 NAREGAMIA ALATA, W. & A. 117 ; F. B. I. i. 542 ; Wt. Ic. t. 90. 



W. Ghats, in all Districts, up to 3,000 ft., in forest 



undergrowth. 



An undershrub with pretty white flowers 1-li in. long, the 



leaflets small, cuneate-obovate. Vern. Mai. Nelanaregam. 



3. Munronia, Wt. 



Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite, entire or coarsely toothed. Floivers hermaphro- 

 dite, elongate, in few-flowered bracteate axillary cymes. Calyx 

 usually with elongate tube, 5-lobed, lobes subfoliaceous. Petals 5, 

 elongate-spathulate, free or partly cohering, spreading. Disk 

 tubular, membranous, sheathing the ovary and base of the style. 

 Staminal-tube cylindrical, 10-toothed at the apex; anthers 10, 

 terminal, apiculate. Ovary 5-celled ; style elongate, slender ; 

 stigma capitate ; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a 

 depressed-globose, 5-lobed, loculicidal capsule ; valves separating 

 from the 5-winged axis. Seeds plano-convex, the hilum ventral, 

 hollowed, the margins fringed with incurved laciniae ; albumen 

 thin ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous ; radicle short. 



MUNRONIA WALLICHII, Wt. 111. i. 147; F. B. I. i. 543. M. 

 neelglierrica, Wt. 111. i. 147, t. 54. 



W. Ghats from S. Canara to the Anamalais and Pulneys, up 

 to 4,000 ft. 



A low shrub in thick forest undergrowth. Flowers con- 

 spicuous, pink ; leaflets 5-9, lanceolate or ovate, pubescent ; 

 capsule pubescent, about '5 in. in diam. 



4. Melia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets 

 toothed, serrate or entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, in large 

 many-flowered axillary panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, free, much longer than the calyx-lobes. Disk annular. 

 Staminal-tube a little shorter than the petals, cylindric, slightly 

 dilated and laciniate at the mouth ; anthers 10, within the tube at 

 its apex, apiculate. Ovary 5-8-celled ; style cylindric, elongate ; 



