492 NATUBAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



of New South Wales is that of F. xanthoosyla.^ The Melias are 

 cultivated in our gardens, and in our hothouses some species of 

 Trichilia., Guarea, Cedrela, and Swietenia, all remarkable for the 

 elegance of their divided foliage. Carapa guianensis flowers here 

 sometimes. The leaves are remarkable in their youth for the pro- 

 duction of a sweetish substance, secreted by glands whose existence 

 is temporary.^ Those of EJcelergia convallariceodora,^ a species from 

 Madagascar, has in fact the very pleasant odour of the lily of the 

 valley. 



1 F. Oxkyana F. Mcell. Fragm. 1, 65 ; iii. of F. Fournieri (Panch. et Seb. Bois N.-Cakd. 



25. — 'Besis.. Fl. Austral, i.Z^9, u.. 3. — Oxkya 238), a species of douttful autonomy (JfaKowe). 

 zanthoxyla A. Cunn. SooK Sot. Misc. i. 246, t. ^ On the deyelopment of these leaves, see H. 



64. — EosENTH. op. cit. 770. Mentioned also Bii. £uU. Sac. linn.Par. 22. 

 as useful woods are : that of F. Schottiana F. ^ H. Bn. Adamonia, xi. 263, 



MuELi,, in Australia, and in Kew Caledonia that 



