XLV. MELIACE^. 



I. MELIA .SEEIES. 



The Bead trees or 3Ielia ' (fig. 462-4G4) have hermaphrodite 

 regular, often pentamerous, flowers. In that case the convex re- 



Melia Azdemch. 



Fig. 462. Florifcrous liranch (i). 



ceptacle supports a calyx with five sepals, at first imbricate in the 

 bud, then early ceasing to touch one another, covered outside with 



'L. Gen. n. 676 (part.). — J. Gen. 265.— Pndr. i. 621. — Spach, Suit, a Bufon, iii. 

 IiAMK. Diet. i. 341; Suppl. i. 500; ///. t. 1S3. — A. Jv.ss. Miliac. (Memoire siir Ic Oroiipe 

 3-02. — G.^iiiTN. Fnwt. ii. 474 (pavt.).— DC. Its Mdiactcs, SMm. Mus. siix. {\^iO), \bZ, %1, 



