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a 1-6-celled stone. Seed usually solitary in each cavity; testa crustaceous; endosperm fleshy 

 or thick; cotyledons foliaceous; radicle terete, superior. 

 Type species, Melia Azedarach L. 



1. Melia Azedarach L. Sp. PL 384. 1753. 



Melia sempervirens Sw. Prodr. 67. 1788. 



Azedara speciosa Raf. Fl. Ludov. 135. 1817. 



Azederach vulgaris Maza, Repert. Med. -farm. 5: 296. 1894. 



Melia Azedarach umbraadifcra Sarg. Garden & Forest 7: 92. 1894. 



Melia Azedarach umbraculiformis Berckm. & Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1001. 1900. 



A tree sometimes reaching a height of 15 m., with a bitter astringent bark; under surface 

 of the leaflets, branches of the young inflorescences, pedicels, sepals, and petals sometimes 

 clothed at first with a dense matted stellate pubescence, this gradually disappearing with age, 

 or persistent on the backs of the sepals and on the pedicels; leaves bipinnate or occasion- 

 ally tripinnate, 3-8 dm. long, sometimes longer; leaflets lanceolate to ovate or occasionally 

 oval, 3-8 cm. long, 0.8-3 cm. broad, acute to long-acuminate at the apex, acute or rounded 

 and somewhat cordate at the base, bright-green, petioluled or subsessile, the margin incised- 

 serrate, nearly entire or lobed; panicles 8-25 cm. long; flowers borne on slender pedicels; 

 sepals lanceolate to elliptic or occasionally ovate, 2-3 mm. long, 0.8-2 mm. broad, acute; petals 

 oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 8-12 mm. long, 1.5-3.5 mm. broad, purplish or occasionally 

 whitish; staminal tube hairy within, purple or sometimes whitish; ovary glabrous; drupe 

 subglobose or ellipsoid, 1.3-1.8 cm. in diameter, yellow, smooth; putamen bony, furrowed. 



Type locality: Syria. 



Distribution: Widely cultivated; naturalized from the Old World tropics in the southeastern 

 United States, in Bermuda, through the West Indies and in tropical continental America. 



Illustrations: Bot. Mag. pi. 1066; Bot. Reg. 8: pi. 643; Mem. Mus. Paris 19: pi. 13, f. 4 

 Wight. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. pi. 160; Baillon, Hist. PI. 5: 470 & 471, /. 462-164; Schnizl. Ic. pi. 225 

 Descourt. Fl. Ant. pi. 46; Cav. Diss. pi. 207; Lam. Tab. Encvc. pi. 352; Mart. Fl. Bras. II 1 : pi. 50 

 Britton, N. Am Trees /. 547; Cycl. Am. Hort. /. 1387; Garden & Forest 7:/. 20. 



2. CABRALEA A. Juss. Mem. Mus. Paris 19: 229. 1830. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate or equally pinnate. Leaflets entire, 

 frequently inequilateral at the base. Flowers perfect, in axillary panicles. Sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, free, strongly imbricate in aestivation. Staminal tube cylindric, 10-crenate, the 

 teeth 2-cleft or entire ; anthers 10, alternate with the teeth. Disk tube-like or subcampanulate. 

 Ovary 3-5-celled; style slender, erect; stigma disc-like. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, super- 

 posed, pendulous. Capsule coriaceous or woody, indehiscent, or dehiscing loculicidally or 

 irregularly at the apex, 5-celled, the cells 1- or 2-seeded. Cotyledons fleshy. 



Type species, Cabralea polytrichia A. Juss. 



1. Cabralea insignis C. DC. Bot. Gaz. 19: 1. 1894. 



Leaves equally pinnate, 6.5-7 dm. long; petioles and rachis terete or nearly so, pilose, 

 the petiole 10-13 cm. long; leaflets about 38, opposite, subopposite, or alternate, narrowly 

 oblong, 11-17 cm. long, 2.5-3 cm. broad, acute to abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, with 

 a somewhat blunt tip, more or less inequilaterally rounded or acutish at the base, glabrous 

 above, pilose on the prominent midrib beneath, reticulate-veined, with slender veins, mem- 

 branaceous, the upper leaflets subsessile, the lower ones short-petioluled ; flowers unknown; 

 capsule "indehiscent, about 4.5 cm. in diameter," glabrous, brown, the cells one-seeded; seeds 

 ellipsoid, 1.8-2.2 cm. long, 1.2-1.5 cm. broad; cotyledons fleshy, elliptic. The species is 

 unsatisfactorily known to me. 



Type locality: Acatepeque, Zacatepequez, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 



Doubtful species 



CABRALEARiCHARDiANAC.DC.inMart.Fl.Bras.il 1 : 176. 1878. Doubtfully recorded 

 from Brazil or Cuba. 



