226 XXXIII. MELIACE^. 



Staminal tube orenulate. Petals and anthers 5 each . . . . • • • • 7. Heaenu. 

 Staminal tube toothed, with the anthers protruding between the teeth. 



Ovules solitary. Drupe globular, with a woody or stony putamen . . . 8. Uwenia. 

 Staminal tube truncate or crenate. Ovules more than 2 in each cell. 



Leaflets reticulate 9. Oabapa. 



Tkibe III. CedreleSB.— Stamens free. Ovules more than 2 in each cell. Seeds winged. 

 Leaves pinnate or rarely simple. 



Petals erect. Disk thick. Capsule smooth. Leaves not dotted 10. Cedrela. 



Petals spreading. Disk broadly cupular. Capsule murieate. Leaves pellucid- 



dotted ... II- Flindersu. 



1. TURRiEA, Linn. 

 (After George Turrea.) 



Calyx 4 or 5-toothed or lobed. Petals 4 or 5, elongated, free. Staminal tube 

 cylindrical, toothed at the summit, anthers 8 or 10, within the summit of the 

 tube. Disk annular or none. Ovary 5, 10, or 20-celled ; style filiform, with a 

 disk-like. stigma ; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Capsule 5 or several-celled, 

 opening locullcidally in as many coriaceous va,lves. Seeds oblong, with a broad 

 ventral hilum, sometimes winged ; albumen fleshy, cotyledons leaf-like. — Trees 

 or shrubs. Ijeayes simple. Peduncles axillary, bearing few, white flowers. 



The genus extends over tropical Asia and Africa ; the Australian species is found also in the 

 Indian Archipelago. — Benth. 



1. T. pubescens (pubescent), iJ«ZZew ; Willd. Spec. PL ii. 555; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 379. A deciduous shrub or small tree. Leaves at the time of flowering 

 small, from obovate and emarginate to ovate-lanceolate and acuminate, pubescent 

 as well as the young shoots ; when full-grown ovate, shortly acuminate, 2 to 3, or 

 even 4in. loqg, somewhat coriaceous, quite" glabrous or slightly pubescent under- 

 neath. Flowers white, sweet-scented, in axillary clusters or short racemes of 3 

 to 6. Petals narrow, linear- spathulate, 1 to If in. long. Staminal tube rather 

 shorter, with 10 short teeth, each one more or less divided into 2 to 4 lobes, or 

 rarely entire. Style exserted. Fruit nearly globular, 5-celled, furrowed opposite 

 the dissepiments, 3 to 4 lines diameter in some specimens, fin. in others, opening 

 loculicidally'in 5 valves, leaving the grfeater part of the membranous dissepiments 

 attached to the axis. Seeds not winged. — T. Billardieri, A. Juss. in Mem. Mus. 

 Par. xix. 218 ; Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 181 (from the character given) ; T. eoticinna, 

 Benn. PI. J»v. Ear. 182. 



Hab.: Not uncommon in scrubs north and south. 



Wood close-grained, hard, the centre or heart-wood dark, the outer part of a somewhat bright 

 yellow. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 59. 



The species appears to be generally dispersed over the Indian Archipelago ; the lobes of the 

 teeth of the staminal tube, upon which the distinction of T. pubescens, T. Billardieri, and T. 

 concinna is chiefly founded, are very variable, even on the same specimen. — Benth. 



i 2. MELIA, Linn. 



(The Greek name of the Manna Ash.) 



Calyx 5 or 6-oleft. Petals 5 or 6, linear-spathulate, spreading. Staminal tube 

 10 or 12-toothed ; anthers 10 or 12, within the summit. Disk annular. Ovary 

 8 to 6-celled ; style slender, with a capitate lobed stigma ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 superposed. Drupe succulent, with a bony 1 to 5-celled putamen. Seeds solitary 

 in each cell ; testa crustaoeous ; albumen fleshy, sometimes scanty or none, 

 cotyledons leaf-like. — Trees. Leaves usually twice or thrice pinnate, with 

 petiolulate tpothed leaflets. Flowers paniculate. 



The genus comprises but very few species, natives of tropical Asia, one of them generally 

 planted in many parts of the globe. The Australian species is one of the Asiatic ones, — Benth, 



