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Munronia. | MELIACE. 211 
MUNRONIA, Wight. 
Calyx persistent, 5-parted, Kerker the lobes almost leafy. 
Petals 5, up to the middle united into a funnel-sh aped tube. 
Staminal tube adnate to the Siiblin tube free upwards, 10-toothed 
at apex ; anthers 10, alternating with the teeth and furnished with 
a bristly appendage. Disk membranous, sheathing the ovary. 
Ovary 5-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; style slender. Capsule 
5-lobed, loculicidally 5-valved. Albumen thin.—Small undershrubs 
or shrubs with 3-foliolate or ages arenes leaves. Flowers 
large, white, in poor axillary eym 
1. M. Wallichii, Wight; H. A “Ind. Fl. i. 543.—A small simple- 
stemmed shrub, up to a foot high, the young shoots pubescent ; 
leaves unpaired-pinnate, the petiole and big terete and pubescent ; 
leaflets in 2-3 pairs with an odd o very shortly petioluled, 
Opposite or almost alternate, etiiaslahbiohits to lanceolate, 2-24 in 
long, unequal at base, bluntish acuminate, mem branous, entire, 
puberulous on the nerves beneath ; flowers — an in. long, 
showy, sere pedicelled, forming tawny p ubescent cymes in the 
e upper leaves; calyx vhibecieouit) the lobes about 3 lin. 
long, oblong-spathulate, somewhat acute ; 3 corolla-lobes as long as 
the tube, pubescent outside, especially along the borders; the teeth of © 
the germ tube on the back appendaged. 
4B.—On shady moist aeend in the upper ee oe of the central range 
of ihe Pega Yomah.—Fl. March.-Apr.—s.—SS.= 
MELIA, L. 
Calyx 5-6-parted, imbricate. Petals 5 or 6, free, twisted in 
Rad, Starnina) tube almost cylindrical, 10- or 12. -toothed or -cleft, 
the lobes : 2-3-lobed ; anthers 10-12, within the summit of the tube. 
isk annular. Ov. vary 3-6-celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each 
» eell; style slender. Drupe containing a 1-5-celled stone. Seeds 
pendulous, Albumen thin, fleshy.—Trees, with alternate pinnate 
to seeompoun and: leaves, Flowers often showy, in large axillary 
Panic 
Leaticts rans Seely sine. . M. excelsa. ta 
serrate ; drapes small, b y ; abortion L-celléd and 1. seeded . M. Azadirach 
Kk Leaves a aes Drupes 5-celled, some of the cells 
: Drupes small, oblong, sont ii in. need: ; staminal mre — slender, 
glabrous ou ; leaflets se . Mt. Azedarach. 
Drupes , eae on ne ano an in, ‘long sasha tube 
: White, tons pas! ; leaflets crenate 
. MM. dubia. 
‘tube 2-4 lin. long, white, woolly at the sumniit ; leatiets entire I Birmanica, 
