MELIACE.r.. i^l 



extrorsely superior. — Fruit various iu form, capsular coriaceous or 

 sub-flesliy, loculiciclally 2-3-valvate, very rarely 4-5-valvate ; cells 

 1, 2-sperinous. Seeds desceudent ; furnished with or enclosed in a 

 more or less evolute aril ; testa coriaceous ; cotyledons of exalbumi- 

 nous embryo fleshy thick ; radicle superior short. — Trees or shi'ubs ; 

 leaves alternate imparipinnate or more rarely 1-3-foliolate } leaflets 

 opposite or alternate ; flowers in axillary or terminal more or less 

 ramosely compound cyraiferous racemes. {^Tropical America, tropical 

 and southern Africa.) See p. 474. 



8. Owenia F. Muell.^ — Flowers nearly of Trichilia ; sepals 5 

 and petals same in number alternate longer open-recurved much 

 imbricated. Stamens 1 ; anthers exserted, inserted at top of cam- 

 panulate tube and surrounded by an exterior 10-co -fid crown. 

 Gcrmon free, surrounded by an annular disk more or less thick 

 (or 0); cells 3, or more rarely 10-12; cells 1-ovular; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior ; style straight, much dilated to stigmatose apex 

 thick conical and more or less lobed at summit. Fruit drupaceous 

 globose; flesh thick or scanty; putamcn 3- or more rarely G-12- 

 locular. Seeds in cells solitary oblong, spongy without (arillate ?) ; 

 hilum ventral ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo plano-convex ; 

 radicle retracted superior. — Glabrous trees, sometimes gum-bearing 

 (?) ; leaves alternate pinnate ; leaflets sub-opposite co ; flowers in 

 ramose " axillary racemes, often 2-nate in axil of bracts ; each 

 2-bracteolate. [Trojncal Australia.-) 



9. Heynea Roxb.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx short imbri- 

 cate, 4-5-fid. Petals 4, 5, longer, imbricate or sometimes sub- 

 valvate (Survala).'^ Stamens 8-10; filaments 1-adelphous at or 

 below the base, free above and there entire or 2 -fid ; anthers sessile 

 between thelegs orat top of inappendiculate filament, 2-rimose. Germen 

 oftener depressed, surrounded by or half-immersed in annular more 

 or less fleshy disk ; cells 2, 3 ; ovules in cells 2, descendeut ; style 

 erect, apex stigmatose dilato-turbiuute or sub-elevate 2-3-(l('utate 

 and a little bchnv surrounded by a thickened ring. Fruit fleshy, 

 indehiscent (Wahura^) or sometimes capsularily dehiscent (£u- 



^ Hook. Kcw Joitrii. ix. 303. — B. H. Gen. (1819).— A. Ji'ss. Miliac. 82, t. 7.— Spacii, 



.3;i7, 994, n. 28. 'V'aV. d Btiffmi, iii. 192.— E.NUL. Qcn. n. 5.)10. - 



= Spec. 5. F. JIuEi.i,. J^/ff(/Hi.iii. 1.3.— Bentii. B. H. Geii. 336, n. 23. 



Fl. Austt-al. i. 384 (part.).— Walp. Ann. vii. ■■ R(i;m. Si/imps. 108. 



.5-59 [O. ternxifern est, fid. V. Mukll. [Fi-arjm. v. ' Hoxn. 77. Jii^. ii. 386 (1824) — Wic.nr and 



\'l),Spoiidiai< pleiiiyi/iia {\>.%')i)]. Ait.v. Prodi: i. 120. — EsDL. Gni. n. ;'i.j.'!9.— 



■' /lot. Miiji. t. 1738; PI. Coromaiiil. iii. 230 B. H. Gen. 330, n. 22. 



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