334 LVIII. MELIACE^E. 



cells. OVULES ascending or pendulous, hilum usually ventral, micropyle superior. 

 FRUIT dry or fleshy. EMBRYO albuminous or exalbuminous. STEM woody. LEAVES 

 alternate. 



Large or small TREES, or rarely UNDERSHRUBS ; wood often hard, coloured, 

 sometimes odoriferous. LEAVES alternate, exstipulate, very rarely dotted (Flin- 

 dersia), pinnate or rarely simple, entire. FLOWERS g , or rarely polygamo-dicecious, 

 regular, terminal or axillary, panicled. CALYX generally small, 4-5-fid or -partite, 

 aestivation usually imbricate. PETALS hypogynous, 4-5, rarely 3-7, sometimes free 

 and contorted or imbricate, sometimes connate, or adnate to the staminal tube, and 

 valvate. STAMENS generally 8 or 10, rarely 5, very rarely 16-20, inserted with the 

 petals outside of the base of a hypogynous disk ; filaments united by their margins 

 into a more or less complete tube, entire or toothed or variously laciniate, very 

 rarely free (Cedrela) ; anthers introrse, sessile or sub-sessile on the staminal tube, 

 included or exserted, dehiscence longitudinal, connective sometimes lengthened. 

 DISK various, usually annular or tubular and sheathing, free, or adnate to the 

 ovary (Trichilia) or staminal tube (Mallea). OVARY free, usually 3-5-celled ; style 

 simple ; stigma disciform or pyramidal ; ovules usually 2 in each cell, collateral or 

 superimposed, very rarely solitary, sometimes 6 or more (Cedrela, Swietenia), ascending 

 or pendulous, raphe ventral, micropyle superior. FRUIT various : sometimes a drupe 

 (Melia, Mallea) or berry (Vavcea, Sandoricum), sometimes a capsule, loculicidal 

 (Trichilia, &c.) or septifragal (Cedrela, Swietenia, &c.). SEEDS exalbuminous, or 

 with fleshy albumen, winged (Swietenia, Cedrela, &c.) or not (Melia, Trichilia, &c.). 

 EMBRYO flat, hilum usually ventral ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle usually sunk between 

 the cotyledons and superior, sometimes vague. 



TRIBE I. MELIEJE. 1 



Stamens united into a tube. Ovary with 2-ovuled cells. Seeds not winged ; 

 albumen thin, fleshy. Fruit a capsule (Quivisia, Turrcca, &c.) or drupe (Melia, 

 Mallea) or berry (Vavcea). Cotyledons plano-convex or foliaceous. Leaves simple, 

 3-foliolate or pinnate, or decompound. 



GENERA. 



Quivisia. Tumen. Vavsea. Munronia. Melia. Mallea. 



Azadirachta. Naregaraia. Calodryum. 



TRIBE II. TRICHILIE^. 



Stamens united in a tube. Ovary with 1-2-ovuled cells. SEEDS not winged, 

 exalbuminous. Fruit a capsule (Carapa, Trichilia, Guarca, &c.) or berry (Sando- 

 ricum, Milnea, Dasycoleum, Lansium, &c.). Cotyledons thick. Leaves pinnate. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Dysoxylum. Chisocheton. Epichari?. Cabralea. Sandoricum. Aglaia 



Milnea. Lansium. Ainoora. Guarea. Walsura. Ekebergia.. 



Odontandra. Ileynea. Moschoxylon. Trichilia. Carapa. Owenia. 



1 These tribes are those proposed by Uentham and Hooker fil. in the 'Genera Plantarum: -ED. 



