XLV. MELIACE^. 



I. MELIA SERIES. 



The Bead trees or Mclia ' (fig. 4G2-4C4) have hermaphrodite 

 regular, often peutainerons, flowers. In that case the convex re- 



Mi-lia Azerlemeh . 



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Fig. 4G2. Florifcrous branch (i). 



ceptacle supports a calyx with five sepals, at first imbricate in the 

 bud, then early ceasing to touch one another, covered outside with 



' L. Gen. n. 576 (part.). — J. Ocii. 265.— Prodi: i. 621. — Spach, Suit, à Buffnn, iii. 

 Lamk. Diet. i. 341; Suppl. i. 500; ///. t. 183. — A. 3vss. Mcliac. {Mémoire sur le Oroujie 

 3->2. — G^RTN. Fruct. ii. 474 (part.).— DC. Jes Méliacées, Mém. Mus. ilik. {1S30), 153, 67, 



