M EL I ACE. TT. 6(11 



17. Aglaia Lour.' — Flowers polygamo-diœeious ; sepals 5, free 

 or more or less connate, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments connate in subglobular or lU'ceolate tube, entire at apex, 

 dentate or lobate (like gamopetalons corolla) ; anthers inserted at top 

 of tube, enclosed or partly exserted, iutrorscly 2-rimosc, pointed or 

 muticous {3Iilnca") Germen short 1-3-locular; style short, apex 

 stigmatose truncate dilated or discoid-capitate, entire or lobed ; 

 ovules in cells 1, 2, descendent. Fruit a corticate berry; seeds 1 

 or few ; aril full or sparse (or ?) ; embryo iieshy oblique or 

 transverse. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes scurfy, lepidote or stellately 

 pubescent; leaves alternate, o-foliolatc or imparipinnate ; flowers^ in 

 axillary or rarely terminal very ramosely compound racemes. (2Vo- 

 jncal and suhtrojjical Asia and Oceania^) 



18 ? Lansimn Eumph.^ — Flowers diœcious, nearly of Aglaia 

 (larger); sepals and petals rotundate, imbricate. Stamens 10; 

 anthers enclosed at summit of globular or lu'ceolate tube, 2-seriatc. 

 Germen 2-5-locular ; style short, apex stigmatose dilated, discoid or 

 radiately 2-5-lobed ; ovules, fi'uit,'' W^Vl arillate seeds and othiT 

 characters of Jglaia. — Glabrous or pubescent trees ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; flowers axillary ; the males in slender very ramose com- 

 pound racemes; the females^ in simi^le or less ramose racemes.* 

 {^Tropical Asia and Oceania.^) 



19. Amoora Eoxb.^" — Flowers (nearly of Lansium) polygamo- 

 diœeious; sepals 3—5, short, free or connate in dentate cupule. 

 Petals 3-5, thick, imbricate. Stamens 6-10 ; anthers enclosed in 



— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 382.— W alp. Sep. i. 543, 544 (Milnea) ; Suppî. i. 197.— F. Muell. 



ii^.—Trichilia glmrdulosa^K.Rees'Cyclop.is:&.\\.. Fragm. v. 145.— W alp. Sep.i. 428 {Milnea); 



—T. octandra Soland. .<-i'"'. vii. 655, 556 [Milnea). 



' Fl. Cocliiitch. (od. 1790), nZ.—DC.-Prodi: i. ' Serb. Amboiii. i. 151, t. 54.— Jack, in Trans. 



637.— A. Jrss. Meliac. 93, t. 3. — Endl. Gen. n. Linn. Soc. xiv. 115, t. 4, fig. 5. — A. Juss. Meliac. 



5524.— B. H. Oen. 334, 994, n. \i.—Camunium 81.— Spach, Suit, à Biijfon, iii. 190.— Endl. 



KuMPH. Eerb.Ainboin. v. t. W.—Cainbania Cou- Gen. n. 5526.— B. H. Oen. 334. n. 16.— Hp/iœ- 



MERS. Herb. rosacme Wall. Soxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 429. 



■■! EoxB. Fl. Ind. i. C37.— Endl. Oen. n. 5525. " Red or yellow. 



— B. H. Gen. 334, n. li.—Ni/nlelia Dennst. ' Larger. 



ffort. Malab. iv. \6.—Nemedra A. Juss. Meliac. ^ A genus distinct from Aglaia (with which 



71 t. 3.— Endl. Oen. n. 5527.— f belbga Rcem. perhaps it is congeneric) principally by its di- 



Synops. 166. plostemonous androceum ; the parts oftener 



' Small or minute. larger. 



< Spec, ad 40. Q-L.Sijdr. 169.-Jack, in Trans. ' Spec. 2, 3. Bl. Bijdr. 164.— Miq. Fl. Ind.- 



Limi. Soc. xiv. 114 {;1/i7Mr«).— Hook, and Aun. Jiat.i. p. ii. 544.— W alp. Sep. i. 428. 



MkcIi. Voy. Bot. t. 34.— Wight and Akn. Prodr. '" PI. Coromund. iii. t. 258. Ekdl. Gen. n. 5528. 



i. 118 (JIfiVnra).— Wight, Icon. t. 166 [Milnea). -B. H. Oen. 335, n. n.—Andersonia RoxK. Fl. 



— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 382.— Thw. £•//««;. PI. Ind. ii. 212 (not Kœn. nor R. Bk. nor W.).— 



Zeyl. 60 (.l/i7//<;«).— Mm. Fl. lud.-Bat. i. p. ii. Ainura Sciivlt. f. Syst. vii. \G2\.—àphana. 



