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5. DYSOXYLUM Blume 



Trees with pinnate, often much elongated leaves, the leaflets entire, 

 often oblique at the base. Flowers elongated, perfect, paniculate. Calyx 

 4- or 5-fid, dentate, or subentire. Petals 4 or 5, oblong, valvate or only 

 slightly imbricate. Staminal-tube cylindric; anthers short, 6 to 10, usually 

 included. Disk tubular, equaling or longer than the ovary. Ovary 3- or 4- 

 celled; style about aS long as the staminal-tube. Capsule usually globose, 

 the pericarp coriaceous, 1- to 4-celled, loculicidal. (Greek "bad" and 

 "wood," from the ill-smelling wood of some species.) 



Species 100 or more, India to Malaya, few in Australia and New 

 Zealand, 17 in i!he Philippines. 



1. D. decandrum (Blanco) Merr. Iguio (Tag.). 



A tree 10 to 20 m in height. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, 60 to 90 cm long. Leaflets 10 or more pairs, thin when dry, 

 the lower ones usually ovate and less than 10 cm long, the median and 

 upper ones oblong, 20 cm long or more, base inequilateral. Panicles axil- 

 lary, drooping, about 40 cm long. Flowers sessile, pale-yellowish, pubes- 

 cent, about 1 cm long, 5-merous. Capsule depressedrglobose, 1.5 to 2 cm 

 in diameter, pericarp yellow, pubescent. Seeds red. 



Occasionally cultivated, fl. May-July; widely distributed in the Phil- 

 ippines. Java to New Guinea. 



6. ME LI A Linnaeus 



Trees with pinnate or 2- or 3-pinnate leaves, the leaflets toothed. 

 Panicles axillary. Calyx short, 6- or 6-lobed. Petals 5 or 6, free, spread- 

 ing. Staminal-tube cylindric 10- or 12TStriate and toothed; anthers 10 or 

 12, inserted near the apex. Disk annular. Ovary 3- to 6-celled; style 

 nearly as long as the tube. Fruit Jrupe-like. (Greek name of the ash, 

 applied here on account of the resemblance of the leaves.) 



A small genus of the Indo-Malayan region, 2 species in the Philippines, 

 the following introduced. 



Leaflets prominently toothed 1. M. azedarach 



Leaflets entire or only slightly crenate 2. M. candollei 



* 1. M. AZEDABACH L. Paraiso (Sp.-Fil.). 



A shrub or small tree, usually not more than 3 or 4 win height. Leaves 

 bipinnate, occasionally tripinnate, 20 to 40 cm long; leaflets numerous, 

 oblong-ovate, toothed, acuminate, 4 to 7 cm long. Panicles 10 to 20 cm 

 long. Flowers fragrant, 5-merous, the petals about 1 cm long, oblbng- 

 spatulate, pale-lilac, the staminal-tube usually dark-purple, about 7 mm 

 long. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, about 1 cm long. 



Frequently cultivated foir its fragrant and ornamental flowers, fl. all the 

 year. A native of tropical Asia, now cultivated in most tropical countries. 



2. M. candollei Juss. Gango (Tag.)'; Bagaliiga (Vis.). 



A tree 6 to 15 m high, glabrous when mature, the younger parts 

 tomentose-farinose. Leaves long-petioled, about 50 cm long, usually bi- 

 pinnate. Leaflets numerous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire 

 or obscurely crenate, 4 to 8 cm long. Panicles in the upper axils, shorter 



