176 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Melia. 



stigma capitate, sometimes lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, super- 

 posed. Fruit a fleshy drupe with hard woody endocarp ; cells 

 1-seeded. Seeds pendulous, elliptic ; testa crustaceous ; albumen 

 fleshy or scanty ; cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle terete, superior. 



Flowers lilac ; anthers nearly equalling the laciniae of the purple 

 staminal tube; drupe ellipsoid-globose, *5-'7 in. in diam....l. Azedarach. 

 Flowers white ; anthers exceeding the laciniae of the white staminal 

 tube ; drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, 1-1-5 in. long 2. composita. 



1. MELIA AZEDARACH, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 544 ; W. & A. 117 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 160; Bedd. Fl. t. 13. 



Cultivated in most Districts and occasionally found run 

 wild. The Persian Lilac. 



A pretty but not very big tree with a soft red-cedar-like 

 wood, useful for furniture, but little used as it is not a 

 forest tree properly speaking. Vern. Hind. Bakain ; Tel. 

 Taraka vepa ; Tarn. Mallay vembu ; Kan. Bevu. 



2. MELIA COMPOSITA, Willd. ; W. & A. 117; Bedd. Fl. t. 12. 

 M. dubia, Hiern in F. B. I. i. 545 (not of Cav.). 



N. Circars, Hills of Ganjam ; Deccan in the Nallamalai Hills 

 of Kurnool at 2,000 ft.; W. Ghats from S. Canara to 

 Tinnevelly at low elevations. 



A large deciduous tree with a soft reddish-white wood. 

 Vern. Tarn. Mallay vembu ; Kan. Heb bevu. 



5. Cipadessa, Blume. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subopposite, impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets opposite or nearly so, entire or coarsely serrate ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary peduncled 

 panicles. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, oblong, free, spreading, 

 valvate. Disk cupular, adnate to the base of the staminal tube. 

 Stamens 5-10 ; filaments united below in a short tube, free above, 

 2-toothed at the apex ; anthers inserted between the teeth, short, 

 apiculate. Ovary 5 -celled ; style short ; stigma clavate-capitate ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, collateral. Fruit a 5-ribbed, 5-celled, hardly 

 fleshy drupe; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds angled; albumen fleshy; 

 embryo curved, the cotyledons oblong; radicle superior. 



CIPADESSA BACCIFERA, Miq. C. fruticosa, Bl. ; F. B. I. i. 545. 



Mallea Rothii, W. & A. 118. 



N. Circars, common on laterite hills, near villages and in dry 



