XLV. MELIACEiE. 



I. MELIA SERIES. 



The Bead trees or Melia ^ (fig. 462-464) have hermaphrodite 

 regular, often pentamerous, flowers. In that case the convex re- 



Melia Azederaeh. 



Fig. 462. Ploriferoua branch {\). 



ceptaole supports a calyx with five sepals, at first imbricate in the 

 bud, then early ceasing to touch one another, covered outside with 



'L. Gen. n.- 676 (part.). — J. Gen. 265.— Prodr. \. 621. — Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 

 IjAMk. Diet. i. 341; Suppl. i. 600; III. t. ^ii.—k. 3v&s. Meliac. {Memoire sur le Oroupe 

 3.02. — G.EBTN. Fruct, ii. 474 (part.).— DO. jles M^liacifs, Mem. Jf«s. xix. (1830), 163, 67, 



