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XXI. MELIACEiE. 



[Melia. 



4-5-cleft. Petals generally 4-5, free, rarely connate. Stamens generally 

 double the number of petals, rarely 5 ; the filaments in most genera united 

 into a tube, rarely free, inserted on the disc, or outside at its base ; an- 

 thers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, introrse. Disc annular, cup -shaped 

 or tubular. Ovary free, 3-5-celled ; style 1 ; ovules either 2 in each cell 

 or numerous ; plaoentation axile. Fruit various ; seeds with or without 

 albumen. Gen. PI. i. 327; Royle 111. 139; Wight 111. i. 145, 148. 

 (Cedrelaceae.) 



Stamens united in a tube ; ovules 1-2 in each cell. 



Stamina! tube cylindrical, 10-toothed, bearing 10 anthers at 

 the top ; petals erect ..... 



Staminal tube globular or campanulate, bearing 5-10 anthers 

 on the inside ; petals concave, connivent at the top 



Staminal tube cleft into 8-10 divisions, each bearing an an- 

 ther ; petals erect ...... 



Stamens united in a tube ; ovules numerous. 



Staminal tube urceolate, 10-toothed ; seeds winged at the 

 upper end, with a thin fleshy albumen 



Staminal tube cup-shaped, 10- cleft, each division 2-toothed ; 

 seeds winged at both ends ; no albumen . 

 Stamens free, inserted on the disc. 



Stamens 4-6, ovary 5-celled, capsule opening septifragally 



Stamens 10 ; ovary 3-celled ; capsule opening loculicidally . 



1. Melia. 



2. Amoora. 



3. Heynea. 



4. SWIETENIA. 



5. SOYMIDA. 



6. Cedeela. 



7. Chloroxylon. 



Besides the trees here described, this family contains the Chittagong wood, 

 Chickrassia tabularis, Juss. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 9. A large tree of the hills o" 

 Eastern Bengal, Burma, and South India, with light-reddish wood, abruptly pin 

 nate tomentose leaves, terminal panicles ; staminal tube cylindrical, with 10 

 anthers on its edge ; a woody 3-celled capsule, with numerous winged seeds. 



1. MELIA, Linn. 



Trees with alternate pinnate, bipinnate, or tripinnate leaves. Flowers 

 white or purple, in large, branched panicles. Calyx 5-6-cleft, imbricate 

 Petals 5-6, linear-spathulate, convolute in bud. Stamens 10-12, mona 

 delphous, edge of tube with 10-30 teeth ; anthers inserted on the edge of 

 the tube between the teeth, or within the tube below its mouth. Ovary 

 3-6-celled, surrounded at the base by the annular disc, continued into a 

 cylindrical or filiform style, bearing a 3-6-1 obed, deciduous stigma ; ovules 

 2 in each cell. Fruit a fleshy or dry drupe, the putamen 1-5-celled, 

 each cell containing 1 pendulous seed, with a crustaceous testa; albu- 

 men scanty or none ; cotyledons foliaceous. 



Leaves pinnate ; flowers white ; fruit 1 -celled ; endocarp carti- 

 laginous ....... 



Leaves bipinnate ; fruit 5-celled ; endocarp osseous. 



Leaflets serrate, with large, often unequal, teeth; staminal 

 tube glabrous, purple, edge with 20-30 teeth as long as 

 anthers ....... 



Leaflets entire or crenate ; staminal tube hairy, white, edge 

 with an indefinite number of short subulate teeth, shorter 

 than anthers ...... 



1. M. indica. 



2. M. Azedarach. 



3. M. composita. 





