MELIACE^. 507 



coUeeted in a ball round the rest of tlie central columella ; testa 

 spongy ; hilum ventral ; embryo fleshy, sometimes germinating within 

 the pericarp {Xylocarpus), cotyledons thick superposed often conferru- 

 minate; radicle short dorsal. — Glabrous trees ;^ leaves'' alternate 

 pari- or impari-pinnate ; flowers ^ in compound ramose eymiferous ra- 

 cemes axillary or terminal. {All tropical regions^) 



IV. CEDKELE^. 



30. Cedrela L. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; receptacle short 

 or long conical. Calyx short, 5-partite, sometimes flssus ; preeflora- 

 tion at first imbricate. Petals 5, alternate, free or adnate within to 

 middle to elongate receptacle by means of interposed vertical keel 

 with 2 " adherent " spurs, imbricate or contorted, sometimes valvate 

 at base. Disk more or less elevated, 5-lO-lobed. Stamens equal 

 in number to petals, and alternate with them (an equal number of sta- 

 minodes sometimes being interposed) ; filaments subulate, or inserted 

 with petals, or superior to mouth of spurs ; anthers introrse versatile, 

 2-rimose, apiculate or muticous. Gfermen sessile at top of receptacle; 

 cells 5, oppositipetalous ; style erect, apex stigmatose discoid ', ovules 

 in cells oo, inserted in 2 series in internal angle descendent ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely superior. Capsule woody or membranous, septifragal 

 from apex 5 -valvate ; valves free from septiferous axis, 2 -lamellate ; 

 seeds descendent compressed, imbricate, alate on one or both sides ; 

 albumen slightly fleshy ; cotyledons of slightly fleshy embryo plane 

 subfoliaeeous ; radicle superior short. — Lofty trees ; wood colouxed ; 

 lieaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets petiolate, oftener entire, 

 00 -paired ; flowers in compound eymiferous racemes. {Asia^ tropical 

 America^ and Australia.') See p. 481. 



31. Chloroxylon DC* — Flowers nearly of Cedrela; receptacle 

 short. Sepals 5, not contiguous.* Petals 5, alternate, unguiculate, 

 imbricate finally patent. Stamens 10, verticillate in 2 series ; fila- 

 ments free subulate, inserted at base in hollows of thick disk ; alter- 



' Littoral. 131.— Benth. M. Austral, i. 386.— Thw. Enwn. 



^ On the evolution of which see H. Bn. Bull. Fl. Zexjl. 60 (Dtjsoxylon), 61 {Xylocarpus).—iS.\Q,. 



Soc. Linn. Par. 22. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 546 {Xylocarpus). — Walp. 



3 Small, white. Ann. vii. 659. 



4 Spec. 3, i. EuMPH. Serb. Jmlioin. iii. 92, 5. Prodr. i. 625.— Spach, Suit, a Bufon, iii. 

 t. 61 {Granatum).—'RcEJt. Sijnops. Sesper. i. 122. 171.— A. Jfss. Meliac. 100, t. 12.— Endl. Gen. 

 — GuiLL. et Pees. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 128.— Oliv. n. 5553.— B. H. Gen. 340, n. 36. 



Fl. Trop^Afr. i. 336. — Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 6 In first stage imbricate. 



