MELIACE^. 495 



tooth bearing an exserted erect introrse anther snrmoTinting the silky 

 subulate point of the conneotiTe. Gynseoeum nearly of Munronia ; 

 germen 3-loeular, girt with annular disk ; style filiform, apex 

 stigmatose capitate ; ovules in cells 2, descendent curved, laterally 

 alate ; hilum ventral ; testa crustaceous rugose ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons of curved embryo oblong plane, equal in length to supe- 

 rior terete radicle. — A small ramose glabrous shrub ; leaves alter- 

 nate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets cuneate obovate obtuse ; petiole alate ; 

 flowers axillary solitary pedunculate. {Eastern India}) 



5. Quivisia Commers.^ — Calyx cupular, persistent, teeth 4, or 

 sometimes (CHnnania^) 5, more rarely 4-8 (Vavcea*). Petals same 

 in number longer, somewhat thicker, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 

 8-10 or rarely 11-30 (Vavcea)] filaments connate in cyathiform or 

 sub-campanulate tube sometimes glandulose within ( Vavcea). 

 Germen sessile ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalous ; style slender, annulate 

 to apex ; at summit stigmatose capitato-4-5-lobed ; ovules in cells 

 2, collaterally descendent or subsuperposed ; micropyle extrorsely 

 superior. Capsule, sometimes baccate ( Vavcea), obovate or sub- 

 globose, oftener loculicidal 4-5-valvate ; valves free from basilar 

 columella. Seeds oblong ; testa short ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of axillate straight or curved embryo plane ; radicle superior. — Trees 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, simple, entire or 

 ui the same plant unequally lobate or piunately subcomposite ; 

 flowers in axillary cymes few or sometimes solitary.^ (South Africa 

 and eastern islands, Viti islands?) 



6. Turraea L.'' — Flowers nearly of Munronia, 4-5-merous ; calyx 

 subentire, dentate or deeply fid. Petals 4, 5, elongate, free from 



' Spec. 1 . N. alata Wight and Aiuf. he. dt.— androcemu. 

 Wight, Icon. t. 90.— Wai.p. Sep. i. 426.— 'Spec. 4, 5. Ca\. Diss. viii. 367, t. 211-214. 



Turrtea alata Wight, MSS. — Pees. Enehirid. i. 467.— A. Gteat, Amer. 



2 J. am. 264.— Lamk. III. t. 302.— Poie. .%»^- -Ei;^. -B«<. i. t. 16 (Fa»«B).— Muell. Ars. 



Diet. -n. 43; Suppl. iv. 641.— DC. Prod/r. i. Lwrnaa, xxxiv. 65; DO. Prodr. xv. sect. ii. 



620.— A. Juss. Meliac. 64, t. 1.— Endl. Gen. n. 227, n. 2 (Paym'a).— Seem. M. Vit. 35 (Vavaa). 



5516.— B. H. Gen. 330, n. 1.— Bakeu Fl. — H. Bsr. Adansonia, xi. 255. — Walp. Hep. i. 



Maurit. iS.—GiHbertia Gmel. Sgst. 682.— i26; y. 376; Ann. iy.SSS {Vavcea). 

 AlabelU Commeks. Herb. ' Mantiss. 1306.— J. Gen. 264.— Lamk. III. t. 



' KcEM. Synops. 90. 351.— Pom. Diet. viii. 146 ; Suppl. v. 376. — 



■* Bbnth. Mook. Land. Jown. ii. 212. — B. H. DC. Prodr. i. 620. — A. Juss. Meliac. 65, t. 1. — 



Gen. 331, 994, n. 4. Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 182.— Benn. Horsf. 



• Very near to JVa>-«^BJB4<8and Z^rrjBffi from the PI. Jav. Ear. ni, 180. — Endl. (?««. n. 5519. — 



structure of the flower differing from both B. H. Gen. 331, n. 3. — Bakbk, Fl. Maurit. 



chiefly in the shortness of the corolla and 45. 



