MELIACEJE. 507 



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

 spongy ; hilum ventral ; embryo fleshy, sometimes germinating within 

 the i^ericarp (X//locarpiis), cotyledons thick superposed often conferru- 

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

 pari- or impari-ijinnate ; 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, 5-i"iartite, sometimes fissus ; pra^flora- 

 tion at fii'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 ; ovules 

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

 pyle extrorsely superior. 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 imparipinnate ; leaflets petiolate, oftcner entire, 

 CO -paired ; flowers in compound cymiferous racemeg. {Asia.^ tropical 

 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, verticillato in 2 series ; fila- 

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



* Littoral. 131.— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 386.— Tinv. Emim. 



2 On the evolution of which see H. Bn. Bull. PI. Zeyl. 60 {^Dysoryloti), 61 {X!/Ioc<iii,us).—^Uq.. 

 Soc. Linn. Far. 22. Fl. Ind.-Bnt. i. p. ii. 546 (iytorar;;»*).— Walp. 



3 Small, white. Ann. fii. 559. 



1 Spec. 3, 4. RuMPH. Bcrb. Amhoin. iii. 92, 5. Prodr. i. 62.5.— Spach, Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 



t. 61 {Granatum).—'R(F.M. Synops. Besper. i. 122. 171.— A. Juss. Meliac. 100, t. 12.— Kxdl. Ocn. 



— GuiLL. et Pekr. pi. Sen. Tent. i. 128.— Oliv. n. 5553.— B. H. Gen. 340, n. 36. 



Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 336.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Jnd. ' In first stage imbricate. 



