MELIAC'E^. 607 



collected in a ball round the rest of the central columella ; testa 

 spongy ; hilum ventral ; embryo fleshy, sometimes germinating within 

 the pericarp [Xy hear pus) ^ cotyledons thick superposed often conferru- 

 minate ; radicle short dorsal. — Glabrous trees ;^ leaves^ alternate 

 pari- or impari-pinuate ; flowers ^ in compound ramose cymiferous ra- 

 cemes axillary or terminal. {All tropical regions^) 



IV. CEDRELE^. 



30. Cedrela L. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; receptacle short 

 or long conical. Calyx short, G-partite, sometimes fissus ; pra^flora- 

 tion at fij'st imbricate. Petals 5, alternate, free or adnate within to 

 middle to elongate receptacle by means of interposed vertical keel 

 with 2 " adherent " spurs, imbricate or contorted, sometimes valvate 

 at base. Disk more or less elevated, 5-lO-lobed. Stamens equal 

 in number to petals, and alternate with them (an equal number of sta- 

 minodes sometimes being interposed) ; filaments subulate, or inserted 

 with petals, or superior to mouth of spurs ; anthers introrse versatile, 

 2-rimose, apiculate or muticous. Germen sessile at top of receptacle ; 

 cells 5, oppositipetalous ; style erect, apex stigmatose discoid ; oviiles 

 in cells c», inserted in 2 series in internal angle descendent ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely sviperior. Capsule woody or membranous, septifragal 

 from apex 5-valvate ; valves free from septiferous axis, 2-lamellate ; 

 seeds descendent compressed, imbricate, alate on one or both sides ; 

 albumen slightly fleshy; cotyledons of slightly fleshy embryo plane 

 subfoliaceous ; radicle superior short. — Lofty trees ; wood coloured ; 

 leaves alternate impai'i pinnate ; leaflets petiolate, oftcner entii-e, 

 00 -paired ; flowers in compound cymiferous racemes. {Asia^ trojjical 

 America^ and Australia.) See p. 481. 



31. Chloroxylon DC.^ — Flowers nearly of Cedrela; receptacle 

 short. Sepals 5, not contiguous.*' Petals 5, alternate, unguiculate, 

 imbricate finally patent. Stamens 10, verticillatc in 2 series; fila- 

 ments free subulate, inserted at base in hollows of thick disk ; alter- 



' Littoral. 131.— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 386.— Tinv. Eiium. 



2 On the evolution of which see II. 13.N. Dull. PL Zeyl. CO {Di/soxi/lon), 61 (jfyforar/zHs).— Mm. 



Soc. Linn. Par. 22. Fl. Ind.-Ilnt. i. p. ii. 51G {Xijlocarpu.i).—\\ M.r. 



' Small, white. Ann- ^^i• 5.59. 



< Spec. 3, 4. ErMi'H. Ilab. Amloin. iii. 92, 5. Proilr. i. 62.5.— SrACH, Suit, a lUiffuii, iii. 



t. 61 [Granatum).—'RaiK. Synops. Ihsper. i. 122. 171.— A. Jtss. ildiae. 100, t. 12.— Enul. Chh. 



— GriLL. et Perk. Fl. Hen. Tent. i. 128.— Oliv. n. 5553.— B. H. Geii. 340, n. 36. 



n. Trap. Afr. i. 33G.— GniSEii. Fl. Brit. W.-hid. « In first stage imbricate. 



