MELIACE^. 493 



GENERA. 



1. MELIE^. 



1. Melia L. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular, 5-6-merou8, recep- 

 taole convex. Sepals imbricate. Petals same in number free sub- 

 spathulate, contorted or imbricate, patent. Stamens 10-12, verticil- 

 late in 2 scries ; filaments connate in cylindrical petaloid erect tube ; 

 anthers included under dilated and 10-12-fid (lobes 2-fld) mouth of 

 tube erect, introrsely 2-locular. Germen free, girt at base with 

 hyi30gynous annular disk ; cells 3-6, petals (though same in number) 

 opposite ; style slender erect, apex stigmatose capitate, 3_6-lobed, 

 deciduous; ovules in cells 2, subsuperposed descendent ; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior. Fruit di'upaceous slightly fleshy; putamen 

 osseous, 1-6-locular ; cells 1, 2-spermous ; testa of descendent seed 

 crustaceous ; albumen fleshy or slightly membranous ; cotyledons of 

 inverse embryo foliaceous ; radicle terete superior. — Trees or shi-ubs ; 

 leaves alternate, pinnate, or 2-3-pinnate exstipulate, glabrous or 

 stellatcly tomentose ; leaflets petiolulate dentate or serrate ; flowers in 

 axillary ample very ramose compoimd-cymiferous racemes. {All 

 tropical ret/ions). See p. 470. 



2. CipadessaBL.' — Calyx 5-dentate. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 

 10; filaments unequal, connate only at base in short cupule, free 

 above and produced beyond the subapiculate introrse anthers on 

 both sides to a subulate longer or subequal sometimes pilose lacinia. 



1 Sijdy. 162 (1825).— A. Jues. Meline. 70.— aai. 332, n. S.—Rei/mchia K. Iiid. Sem. Sort. 

 Endl. Gen. n. 552li.—Malka A. Juss. Meliac. Serol. (1844), adn. 8 (ex. Walp. Eep. v. 373). 

 69, t. 2 (1830).— Endl. Gen. n. 6622.— B. U. 



