MELIAGE^. 601 



17. Aglaia Lour.' — Flowers polygatno'dioecious ; sepals 5, free 

 or more or less comlate, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments connate in snbglobular or uroeolate tube, entire at apex, 

 dentate or lobate (like gamopetalous corolla) ; anthers inserted at top 

 of tube, enclosed or partly exserted, introrsely 2-rimose^ pointed or 

 muticous {Mihea.^) Germen short 1-3-locular ; style short, apex 

 stigniatose truncate dilated or discoid-capitate, entire or lobed ; 

 Ovules in cells 1, 2, descendent. Fruit a corticate berry; seeds 1 

 or few ; aril full or sparse (or ?) J embryo fleshy oblique or 

 transverse. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes scurfy, lepidote or stellately 

 pubescent ; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate or imparipinnate ; flowers ^ in 

 axillary or rarely terminal very ramosely compound racemes. (Tro- 

 pical and subtropical Asia and Oceania.*) 



18 ? Lansium Eumph.' — Flowers dicecious, nearly of Aglaia 

 (larger); sepals and petals rotundate, imbricate. Stamens 10; 

 anthers enclosed at summit of globular or urceolate tubej 2-seriate. 

 Germen 2-5-locular ; style short, apex stigmatose dilated, discoid or 

 radiately 2-5-lobed ; ovules, fruit,^ P^lpy arillate seeds and other 

 characters of J'y^ata.— ^Glabrous or pubescent trees ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; flowers axillary ; the males in slender very ramose com- 

 pound racemes; the females''' in simple or less ramose racemes.* 

 {Tropical Asia and Oceania.^) 



19. Amoora Eoxb.^" — Flowers (nearly of Lansium) polygamo- 

 dioecious; sepals 3-5, short, free or connate in dentate cupule. 

 Petals 3-5, thick, imbricate. Stamens 6-10 ; anthers enclosed in 



— Besth. Fl. Austral, i. 382.— Walp. Mep. i. 543, 544 (Milnea) ; Suppl. i. 19?.— F. Mdbli,. 



429. — TrieMlia glandtihaaSti.Ree8'Cyelop.iiSxyi, Fragm. v. 145.— Walp. JJep. i. 428 (Milnea); 



—T. octandra Soland. Ann. vii. 556, 556 {Milnea). 



' Fl. Coehineh. (ed. 1790), 173. — DC. Frodr. i. ' Serb. Amboin. i. 151, t. 54.— Jack, in Trans.' 



637.— 3l. Juss. Meliac. 93, t. 3. — Endl. Gen. n. Linn. Soe. xiv. 116, t. 4, fig. 6. — A. Juss. Meliae. 



5524. B. H. Oen. 334, 994, n. 14. — Camunium 81. — Spach, Suit. A Su£m, iii. 190.— Endl. 



RuMPH. Serb. Amboin. v. 1. 18. — Cainbania Com- &en. n. 6626. — B. H. Oen. 334. n. 16.— ^Spha- 



MEB8. Herb. rosadme Wall. Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 429. 



' Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 637.— Endl. Oen. n. 5625. « Bed or yellow. 



^B. H. Gen. 334, n. U.—Nyalelia DennSt. ' Larger. 



Hort. Malal. iv. 16.—Nemedra A. Juss. Meliae. « A genus distinct from Aglaia (with which 



71, t. 3.— Endl. Gen. n. 5627.—? Selbi/a Biem. perhaps it is congeneric) principally by its di- 



Symps. 166. plostemonons androceran ; the parts oflener 



3 Small or minute. larger. 



4 Spec, ad 40. Ri..Bijdr. 169.— Jack, in Trans. ' Spec. 2, 3. Bl. Bijdr. 164.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.- 

 Linn. Soe. xiv. 114 (Milnea).— Soo^. and Akn. £at. i. p. ii. 644.— Walp. Sep. i. 428. 



Scteh. Voy. Sot. t. 34.— Wight and Abn. Prodr, '» PI. Coromand. iii. t. 258. Endl. Gen. n. 6528. 



i. 118 (Mihea).—WiGnT, leon.t 166 (Milnea). —B. H. Gen. 335, n. 17 .—Andersonia Roxb. Fl. 



— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 382.— Thw. Enum. PI. Ind. ii. 212 (not K(EN. nor R. Br. nor W.).— 



Zeyl. 60 (Milnea).— M.i<i. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. Amwra Schvlt. f. Syst. vii. 1G21.—Aphwia- 



