MELTAOE^. 493 



GENEEA. 



1. MELIE^. 



1. Melia L, — rio-wers hermaphrodite regular, 5-6-meroiis, recep- 

 tacle convex. Sepals imbricate. Petals same in number free sub- 

 spathulate, contorted or imbricate, patent. Stamens 10-13, verticil- 

 late in 2 series ; filaments connate in cylindrical petaloid erect tube ; 

 anthers included under dilated and 10-12-fid (lobes 2-fld) mouth of 

 tube erect, introrsely 2-locular. Germen free, girt at base with 

 hypogynous annular disk; cells 3-6, petals (though same in number) 

 opposite ; style slender erect, apex stigmatose capitate, 3_6-lobed, 

 deciduous; ovules in cells 2, subsuperposed descendent ; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous slightly fleshy; putamen 

 osseous, 1-6-locular ; cells 1, 2-spermous ; testa of descendent seed 

 crustaceous ; albumen fleshy or slightly membranous ; cotyledons of 

 inverse embryo foliatjeous ; radicle terete superior. — Trees or shrubs; 

 leaves alternate, pinnate, or 2-3-pinnate exstipulate, glabrous or 

 stellately tomentose ; leaflets petiolulate dentate or serrate ; flowers in 

 axillary ample very ramose compound-cymiferous lacemes. {All 

 tropical regions). See p. 470. 



2. Oipadessa Bl,' — Calyx 5-dentate. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 

 10; filaments unequal, connate only at base in short cupule, free 

 above and produced beyond the subapiculate introrse anthers on 

 both sides to a subulate longer or subequal sometimes pilose lacinia. 



1 Bijdr. 162 (1825).— A. JuBS. Meliae. 70.— Oen. 332, n. S.—Seynichia K. Ind. Sent. Sort. 

 Endi. ff««. n. 5523. — Mallea A. Jusb. Meliae. 5e>-oZ. (1844), adn. 8 (ex. Walp. iJ«p. v, 373). 

 69, t. 2 (1830).— Bndl. Gen. n. 6522.— B. H. 



