MELIACEJS. 483 



little tongues without anthers ; the disk surrounds by a large and 

 high tube all the quinquelocular ovary ; and the capsular bristling 

 fruit is septifragal. They are Oceanian plants with alternate and 

 opposite leaves, punctate, compound-pinnate or 1-3-foliolate. 



The family of Meliacece was established by A. L. de Jussieu,^ but 

 in a very vague manner, since it included some Magnoliacece as 

 Canella, some Ampelidece as Leea, some Cludacece as Symphonia, and 

 even some Ericacece as Clethra. Adanson had placed Melia and 

 TricMUa in his family of Pistachios. R. Brown ^ had separated 

 Cedrelece from the other Meliacece, as a family ; they were reunited 

 by A. P. de Candolle,^ who, in 1824, admitted among Meliacece 

 three tribes and sixteen genera, of which only thirteen now belong 

 to the family ; he was wrong in introducing Strigilia and Houmiri. 

 As to the genus Creruma^ we do not know sufficiently well at present 

 to what group to unite it, and it remains provisionally, with some 

 others,^ among the doubtful Meliacece. In 1830, A, L. de Jussieu ^ 

 made known his researches on the group of Meliacece^ to which he 

 attributed four tribes or secondary subdivisions, and thirty-six 

 genera, one of which belonged to Ternstroemiacece and twelve ought 

 to be thrown aside as being a useless repetition. Twenty-one genera 

 remain to which contemporary botanists have added only a very 

 small number. Elutheria of Rcemer ^ was recently reinstated 

 among Swieteniece. TurczA-NINOW discovered in 1868 ^ the Dasy- 

 calewn of the Philippines, a genus to which we have just added a 

 new species from Borneo, J. Hooker ^ established in 1862 the 

 genus Beddomsa ; F. Mueller the genera Owenia and Hearnia, in 

 1857^" and 1865." We^^ have proposed the new African genus 

 Turrceopsis; which, for us, raises the number of generic types tothirty- 



' Gm. (1789) 263, Ord. 11; Mi'm. Mus. iii. Bbnn. Morfs. Fl. Jav. Ear. 185), an Australian 



436; T. 226.— Bahtl. Ord: Nat. 335.— Lindl. plant whioh is perhaps Turraa pubetcms 



Introd. ed. 2, 101 ; Veg. Kingd. 463, Ord. 173. Hbllest.— 2. Piptosaccos (TuRCZ. Bull. Mosc. 



— Endl. Gen. 1046, Ord. 225.— Ao. T/ieor. Syst. (1858), i. 415 ;— B. H. Qen. 330. A genus (of 



Platvt. 225. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 404, Trichiliese F) little known. 



Fam. 178. ' Me/noire sur le Oroupe des Metiaeees (in Mem. 



' Flind. Voy. (1814), 64 ; Misc. Works (ed. Mux. xix. 153). 



Benjt.) i. 71. ' Synops. 122 (1846). 



. ' Prodr. i. 619, Ord. 44. ' -B««- Mosc. (i.) 414. 



* FoESK. Fl. JEg.-Arah. 62.— J. Oen. 264.— ' Oen. 336. 



Endl. Qen. n. 4570.— B. H. Qen. 330 (" Eiiphor- " Sook. Kew Journ. ix. 



4i«i;«o?") 387. (Celastraoee ? ?). txFragm.y. 



'They are: 1. Leplophragma (R. Bk. et '« 4rfa«joH«», xi. (1874). 



