MELIACE^. 496 



tooth bearing an exserted erect introrsc anther surmounting the silky 

 subulate point of the connective. Gynseceum nearly of Munronia ; 

 gcrmcn 3-locular, girt with annular disk ; style filiform, apex 

 stigmatose capitate ; ovides in cells 2, descendent curved, laterally 

 alate ; hilura ventral ; testa crustaceous rugose ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons of curved embryo oblong plane, equal in length to supe- 

 rior terete radicle. — A small ramose glabrous shrub ; leaves alter- 

 nate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets cuueate obovate obtuse; petiole alate; 

 flowers axillary solitary pedunculate. {Eastern India}) 



5. Quivisia Commers." — Calyx cupular, persistent, teeth 4, or 

 sometimes ( Ginnania ^) 5, more rarely 4—8 ( Vavwa *). Petals same 

 in number longer, somewhat thicker, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 

 8-10 or rarely 11-30 [Vavcea); filaments connate in cyathiform or 

 sub-campanulate tube sometimes giandulose within ( Vavcca). 

 Germen sessile ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalous ; style slender, annulate 

 to apex ; at summit stigmatose capitato-4-5-lobed ; ovules in cells 

 2, collaterally descendent or subsujierposed ; micro pyle extrorsely 

 superior. Capsule, sometimes baccate ( Vavwa\ obovate or sub- 

 globose, oftcner loculicidal 4-5-valvate ; valves free from basilar 

 columella. Seeds oblong ; testa short ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of axillate straight or curved embryo plane ; radicle superior. — Trees 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, simple, entire or 

 in the same plant unequally lobate or pinnately subcomposite ; 

 flowers in axillary cymes few or sometimes solitary.^ [South Africa 

 and eastern islands^ Viti islands.^) 



6. Turrsea L.^ — Flowers nearly of 3Iunronia, 4-5-merous ; calyx 

 subentirc, dentate or deeply fid. Petals 4, 6, elongate, free from 



' Spec. 1. N. alata Wight and Aux. loc. cit.— androceum. 



Wight, Icon. t. 90.— Wai.p. Itcp. i. 426.— ^Spec. 4, 5. Cxv. Diss. viii. 367, t. 211-214. 



Turraa alata Wight, MSS. — Pehs. Emhirul. i. 467. — A. Gray, Amer. 



»J. Oen. 261.— Lamk. III. t. 302.— Poiu. E.rpl. Rep. Bat. i.t. W (rara:a).—iilvs\.i.. Kao. 



Bid. vi. 43; Suppl. iv. 641.— DC. Prodt: i. Limxea, xxxiv. 65; DC. Prodi: iv. sect. ii. 



620.— A. Juss. Mcliac. 04, t. 1.— Endl. Oen. n. 227, n. 2 (Paytrw).— Seem. Ft. Vit. 35 ( Vavaa). 



5516.— B. H. Gai. 330, n. 1.— Caker Fl. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 255.— Walp. Rep. i. 



Maiirit. 45. — Gilibertia CtMel. Si/st. 682.— 426 ; v. 376 ; ^«h. iv. 388 (r'aiWrt). 



Aluhclla CoMMEUs. Herb. ^ Mantiss. 1300.— J. Gen. 204. — Lamk. III. t. 



3 KiKM. Synops. 90. 351.— Pom. Diet. viii. 145 ; Suppl. v. 376. — 



* Benth. Uiiulc. Lund. Juurn. ii. 212. — B. II. DC. Pi-odr. i. 620. — A. Joss. Meliac. 65, t. 1. — 



Oen. 331, 994, n. 4. Spacu, Suit, a Biiffon, iii. 182. — Be.nn. Honf. 



' Very near to iV'ncc^amia and rwrraffi from tho PI. Jav. Rar. 177, 180. — Endl. C«i. n. 6519. — 



Btructure of the flower differing from both B. H. Gen. 331, n. 3.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 



chiefly in the shortness of the corolla and 45. 



