Ganophyllum.] XXXII. BURSERACB^. 225 



1. G-. falcatum (falcate), BLume, Mm. Hot. Suyd. i. 280 ; F. o. M. Fraym. 

 vii. 24. A tree of about 80ft. Leaves pinnate, petiole J to 8in. long, rhachis 

 about 1ft. long, bearing about 14 lanceolate-ovate leaflets, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, IJ to Sin. long, 1 to Ifin. broad, entire. Panicle a few or many inches 

 long. Calyx about 1 line long, teeth semilaneeolate-deltoid, ciliate. Stamens 

 6 or 7 ; filaments 1 or 2 lines long, glabrous ; anthers sulphur-coloured. Style 

 in male flowers none, and in female flowers only rudimentary, obtuse and 

 pilose, glabrous. Disk puberulous. Drupe 6 to 8 lines long. Seeds 4 or 5 

 lines long. Testa tawny-hoary. Embryo green. Cotyledons superior, strongly 

 inflexed. 



Hab.: Port Denison and Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy and B, FiUalan. 



Order XXXIII. MELIACE^. 



Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx small, 4 or 5-lobed, or divided 

 into as many distinct sepals. Petals 4 or 5, rarely more, or 3 only, free or adnate 

 to the staminal tube, imbricate or rarely valvate. Stamens as many, or more 

 frequently twice as many, as petals ; the filaments, in Meliacem proper, united in 

 a tube ; anthers sessile or shortly stipitate, within or at the summit of the tube ; 

 in Cedrelea, filaments free. Disk various, often annular or tubular, free within 

 the staminal tube. Ovary free, entire, 8 to 5 -celled ; style simple ; stigma thick, 

 disk-shaped or pyramidal. Ovules in each cell 2 or (in Carapa and the Oedreleai) 

 4 or more, the micropyle superior. Fruit a capsule, berry, or rarely a drupe, 

 indehiscent, or septicidally or loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds 1, rarely 2, or in 

 Cedrelea few in each cell, with a ventral hilum ; albumen fleshy or none, embryo 

 flat or nearly so, radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs, the wood often coloured and 

 sometimes fragrant, the bark rarely bitter. Leaves alternate or very rarely 

 opposite, simple, or more frequently pinnate, the petiole often continuing long to 

 grow out and produce fresh leaflets ; leaflets without dots, except in F Under sia. 

 Flowers paniculate, often small. 



The Order is found abundantly In the tropical or warm regions of Asia and America, more 

 rarely in Africa. Of the 11 Australian genera, 4 are endemic, 3 are common to the tropical 

 regions of both the New and the Old World, the remaining 4 are Asiatic, one of them extending 

 also into Africa. — Benth. (in part). 



Meliacece proper are at once known among the allied Orders by their staminal tube. Cedrelece, 

 with free stamens, are in that respect anomalous, and might technically be referred to some of 

 the preceding Orders containing pinnate-leaved trees ; but the habit, the large disk-like stigma, 

 and some minor characters, have referred them with common consent to Meliaceie as a tribe. 

 Flinderda, however, with its pellucid-dotted leaves, is really as nearly connected with Rutacea- 

 Zanthoxylece as with Meliacece, but retained among the latter on account of its fruit and seeds 

 so nearly those of Cedrela.—rBenth. 



Tribe I. DKelleae. — Stamens united in i* tube. Ovules 2 in each cell. Seeds not winged, 

 albuminous. 



Leaves simple. Petals very long and narrow 1. Tukr.s:a. 



Leaves bipinnate 2. Melia. 



Tkibe II. Trlchillete. — Stamens united in a tube. Ovules 2, rarely 1, or (in Carapa) more 

 than 2 in each cell. Seeds not winged, without albumen. Leaves pinnate. 



Disk tubular or cup-shaped, enclosing the ovary 3. Dtsoxylon. 



Disk annular, or undistinguishable from the thickened base of the ovary. 

 Stamens equal in number to or not twice as many as petals. Flowers very 



small, globular ... 4. Aglaia. 



Stamens twice as many as petals. 



Staminal tube truncate or scarcely crennlate, the anthers included or 

 scarcely protruding. Capsule hard. 



Ovules 1 (rarely 2 superposed) in each cell 5. Amooka. 



Ovules 2, parallel, attached to a pendulous placenta, which in the fruit is 

 a thick arillus between the two seeds 6. Synoum. 



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