210 MELIACEA. 
MELIACELZ. 
Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous, 
dioecious. Calyx usually small, 4- or 5-lobed, or the sepals i 4 
imbricate or very rarely valvate. Petals 4 or 5, rarely 5-7 0 a 
only, imbricate, contorted or rarely valvate. Stamens 5- 20, cal a 
8-10; the filaments inserted outside on the disk, more or less united | 
ina tu , very rarely quite free; anthers sessile or rarely stipitate, 
oii the inside or at the gunimit of the staminal tube, 2-celled, the 
cells opening lk ngitudinally. Disk various, free or adnate. Ov 
3-5-celled, with usually 2, rarely 1 or 6 or more, ovules in eae. 
uy stigma serge or pyramidal. Fruit a capsule, 
Sp liacaists fate or none. Radicle superior.—Trees or Petey 
alternate usually pinnate leaves. Stipules none. Flowers — 
small, in panicles. 
The timber of inci th is valuable, and satin-wood, mahogany, and 
toon-wood are the produce of trees belonging to this order. All | 
the species of this order are Rag and are therefore described here. 
* Stamens united into a tube =a 
© Ovules2 orl. Seeds par oi 
X Albumen thin, fleshy. Cotyledons leafy or plano- 
convex. 
_ t Capsule loculicidally 5-valved ; calyx-lobes leafy . Munronia, 
. F: dru 
ruit a 
Calyx 5-6-parted; drupes containing a single 1-5-celled stone ‘ —_ ae 
Calyx 5-toothed ; drupes containing 5 ——— pyrenes Cipadessa. 
ATbumen none. Cotyledons thick, often con- 
nate. 
+ Disk fre fre, tubular or cylindrical; style usually 
+ Lea 
Calyx 5 toothed, scan hg wee ‘seods without arillus - Dysoxylon. 
Calyx usually bell-shaped, toothed, open in bud; arillus complete or 
Z . Schizochitom. 
+ 2. Leaves 3- folioate ; calyx tubolar ‘ . Sandoricum, 
+ t Disk none, annu ular, stalk-like or confluent. 
with _ staminal tube; styles usually short 
+ ‘Aiton ‘included or almost included in the 
staminal tube, 
Petals 5; anthers 5-10; berry indehiscent . . . . « Aglaia. 
Petals 3; anthers 6; capsule loculicidal e +. + + Amoora. 
Anthers exserted or the filaments free. 
Berry indehiscent, c or Bac ighned dehiscing, !-celled ; arillus present Walsura.. 
us none . . . Carapa. 
end 
8 4s Stamens free; ovules many; seeds winged. . . Cedrela 
