540 XXXVI. BURSERACE^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Filidum. 



Thwaites, 1. c. 59, and in Hooh. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 66, t. i. B. Ehus deci- 

 piens, W. <Ss A. Prodr. 172 ; Wight El. i. 184, t. 75.— £urm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 45. 

 Western Penimsula; throughout the Western Ghats ascending to 4^5000 ft., Bed- 

 do'fne; Ceylon, in the central province, ascending to 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



Order XXXVH. MELIACCS. (By W. P. Hiern, M.A.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipnlate, usually pinnate rarely 

 simple or bipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, usually quite entire and 

 more or less oblique at base. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious, 

 regular, usually in axillary panicles. Calyx S-e-lobed rarely entire or with 

 free sepals, usually imbricated in bud. Petals 3-6, free or rarely connate at 

 the base, sometimes adhering to the lower half of the staminal tube, valvate 

 imbricated or contorted. Stamens 4-12, inserted outside the base of the 

 liypogynous disk, filaments connate in a tube or rarely free ; anthers erect, 

 usually sessile on the tube, included or exserted, 2-ceUed, longitudinally 

 dehiscing. Hypogyrums disk tubular annular or obsolete, free or connate 

 with the ovary. Ovary usually free, 3-5-celled ; style single, stigma, disci- 

 form or capitate ; ovules 2, rarely more, collateral or superposed, raphe 

 ventral, micropyle superior. Fruii capsular drupaceous or baccate. Seeds 

 exalbumiuous or sometimes with fleshy albumen, often enclosed in an 

 aril.— -DiSTEiB. About 300 species, mostly tropical, widely spread over both 

 hemispheres. Miquel enumerates 113 species as occurring in the Indian 

 Archipelago. 



Swietenia Mahagoni, Linn. (Mahogany) has been successfully cultivated near Cal- 

 cutta and in Sikkim {Brandis For. Flor. 70) ; it is a native of the West Indies and 

 Central Africa. • 



In the development of the flower of this Order the staminal-tube and the style are 

 late in completing their growth. 



Heyniohia maUeoides, Kth. Ind. 8em. Hort. Berol. 1844 OoU. adnot. 8, snpposed 

 to have come from East India, is a species of .Moschoxylum, near M. elegans, A. Jvss., 

 and probably came from South America. 



Teibb I. nXeliesB. Leaflets often toothed. Stamens united into a 

 tube. Cells of ovary 1-2-ovuled. Seeds not winged, albumen tMn fleshy ; 

 cotyledons tMn, foliaceous. 



Leaves simple 1. TDERiEA. 



Leaves trifoliolate pinnate or 2-3-pinnate. 

 Flowers elongated. Style long. 



Petioles winged. Ovules collateral 2. Naeegamia. 



Petioles not winged. Ovules superposed. 



Disk tubular. Petals cohering half -syay. Fruit capsular, 



looulicidally 5-valved 3. Muneonia. 



Disk annular. Petals free. Fruit drupaceous, Indehiscent 4. Melia. 

 Flowers globose. Style rather short 5. Cipadessa. 



Tkcbe II. Trichilieae. Leaflets entire. Stamens united into a tube 

 (free in one species of Wakwa). Cells of ovary 1-2-ovuled (2-5-ovuled in 

 Carapa). Seeds not winged, albumen ; cotyledons thick. 



Flowers and staminal-tube oblong or linear. Style elongated. 

 Capsule loculicidal. Leaves pinnate. 

 Flowers oblong. Anthers short. Ovules 2 together, rarely 



solitary 6. Dysoxyltim. 



Flowers linear or oblong. Anthers linear. Ovules solitary . 7. Chisocheton. 

 Berryindehiscent. Leaves trifoliolate 8. Sandoeiodm. 



