1875.] of tie Burmese Flora. 143 



Aglaia. Petals 5. Anthers as many. Ovary 1 — 3-celled. Berry 1 — 2-celled, inde- 



hiseent. 

 Asiooea. Petals 3 — 5. Anthers twice as many or more than twice as many as petals. 

 Ovary 3 — 5-celled. Capsule leathery, opening loculicidally. 



f f Anthers exserted or the filaments upwards free. 

 Walsuba. Petals 5. Berry indehiscent or follicular-dehiscing along the suture. 

 Seeds arillate. 



B. Ovarj-cells 3- to many-ovuled. Seeds usually winged. 



Trib. III. SWIETENIEJE. Stamens united into a tube. Alhumen present or not. 

 Leaves pinnate. 



Carapa. Petals 4 or 5. Ovary-cells with 6 to 3 ovules. Capsule usually large, thick 

 coriaceous, opening loculicidally. Seeds very large, with corky testa, without 

 arillus, not winged. 



Sotmida. Petals 5. Staminal tube cup-shaped, 10-lobed, the lobes 2-toothed. Disk 

 rather broad. Seeds winged at both ends. Albumen none. 



Chickeassia. Petals 4 or 5. Staminal tube cylindrical, 10-crenate. Disk none. 

 Seeds winged below. Albumen none. 



Trib. IV. CEDRELEJE. Filaments free, inserted outside of the disk. Valves of 

 capsule separating from the axis. Seeds many. Leaves pinnate. 



Cedrela. Petals erect. Stamens 4 — 6. Disk raised or thin. Ovary 5-celled. Cap- 

 sule opening septicidally. Seeds winged. 



Munronia, Wight. 



1. M. Wailichu, Wight. 111. Iud. Bot. 147 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 543.— 

 (Turraea pinnata, "Wall. PI. As. var. II. 21. t. 119 ; Bot. Mao-, t. 1413 • 

 M. Neilgherrica, Wight 111. I. 147. t. 54). 



Hab. Bare on shady moist sandstone-rocks in the tropical forests of 

 the central parts of the Pegu Tomah (Toung-nyo choung). — Fl. March. 



Melia, L. 



Conspectus of species. 



* Leaves simply pinnate. Ovary S-celled. 



Leaflets entire, Mt exce i sa . 



Leaflets serrate ; drupes small, by abortion one-celled and 1-seeded, . .31. Azadirachta. 



* * leaves twice pinnate. Ovary and drupes 5 — 8-celled, some of the cells in fruit 



usually empty. 



x Drupes about \ in. long, oblong or elliptical. 

 Leaflets serrate ; staminal tube blue or dark lilac, slender, glabrous outside, about 3 lin. 



iong, M. Azedarach. 



x x Drupes large, 1 in. long or longer. Staminal tube white. 

 Drupes ovate, hardly § in. thick, 5 or fewer-celled ; staminal tube about 1^ — 2 lin. long, 



glabrous outside ; leaflets crenate or ultimately entire, M. dubia. 



Drupes twice as large, almost globose-obovoid, 5 — 8-celled ; staminal tube 2 lin. long, 

 woolly at the sivmmit ; flowers larger, scurvy -tomentose outside, . . . ,M. Birmanica. 



