ME LI ACE. ^. 



GENEKA. 



1. MELIEZ. 



1. Melia L. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular, 5-6-mcrous, recep- 

 tacle convex. Sepals imbricate. Petals same in number free sub- 

 spathulate, contorted or imbricate, patent. Stamens 10-12, verticil- 

 late in 2 series ; filaments connate in cylindrical petaloid erect tube ; 

 anthers included under dilated and 10-12-fid (lobes 2-fid) mouth of 

 tube erect, iutrorsely 2-locular. Germen fi'ee, girt at base with 

 hypogynous annular disk; cells 3-6, petals (though same in number) 

 opposite ; style slender erect, apex stigmatose capitate, 3_6-lobed, 

 deciduous; ovules in cells 2, subsuperposed descendent; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous slightly fleshy ; putamen 

 osseous, 1-6-locular ; cells 1, 2-spermous ; testa of descendent seed 

 crustaceous ; albumen fleshy or slightly membranous ; cotyledons of 

 inverse embryo foliaceous ; radicle terete superior. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, pinnate, or 2-3-pinnate exstipulate, glabrous or 

 stellately tomentose ; leaflets petiolulate dentate or serrate ; flowers in 

 axillary ample very ramose compouud-cymiferous racemes. {All 

 tropical regions). See p. 470. 



2. Cipadessa Bl.' — Calyx 5-dentate. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 

 10 ; filaments unequal, connate only at base in short cupule, free 

 above and produced beyond the subapiculate introrse anthers on 

 both sides to a subulate longer or subequal sometimes pilose lacinia. 



1 Bijdr. 162 (1825).— A. Jusd. Melinc. 70.— Qcn. 332, n. ?,.~Seynichia K. Iiid. Scm. Sort. 

 Enul. Gtn. n. 5ô23.—M(illca A. Juss. Meliac. JBcrol. (1844), adn. 8 (ex. Walp. Sep. v. 373). 

 69, t. 2 (1830).— Endl. Got. n. 5522.— B. H. 



