212° MELIACES. [ Melia. 
1. M. excelsa, Jack in Mal. Mise. i. 12; H.f. Ind. Fl.i. 544— 
An evergreen tree, 50 ft. high, glabrous; leaves simply pinnate, | 
crowded at the end of the branchlets, 2-24 ft. long, the petiole ter 
thickened and somewhat scaly at the base ; leaflets in 7-9 pairs with 
an odd one, alternate or nearly opposite, ovate-oblong, very oblique — 
and almost auricled at the base, on petiolules 14-2 lin. long, rather 
bluntish acuminate, 3-6 in. long, quite entire, glabrous; flowers 
Has.—Tenasserim, Mergui, probably cultivated.—FI. Decb. 
2. M. Azadirachta, L.; H.f. Ind. FLi. 544; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 
13 (14 by mistake).—(JL. Indica, Brand. For. FI. 67) .—Thinbow-ta- 
ma-kha.— A tree (40—80 + 18—40 4+ 4—6), shedding leaves in H.S., 
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higher ridges of the Yomah ; also Ava.—FI. March.—1.__SS'=CoS. 
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t. 14 (13 by mistake) ; Brand. For. Fl. 68.— Tha-ma-kha.—A tree 
(40—5C + 12—20+3—4),. leafless during H.S., the shoots usually 
usually obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong,, about 14-2 in. long, 
SNORE petomuied, while young coarsely serrate, afterwards often only 
