XXXVII. MELiACEiE. (W. P. Hiern.) 541 



Flowers and staminal-tube globose or turbinate. Style short or 

 , -obBolete. 



Anthers included in the staminal-tube or nearly so. Ovules 1-2 

 together. Seeds not angular. 



Anthers 5, isomerous 9. Aolaia. 



Anthers 6-10 ; flowers diplostemonous. 



Berry indehiscent 10. Lansium. 



Capsule loculioidal 11. Amoosa. 



Anthers exserted, or filaments free. Ovules 1-2 together. Seeds 

 not angular except Beddomea. 

 Seeds arillate. Calyx 4^5-fid. Flowers small. 



Berry indehiscent, shortly to'mentose 12. Walsdra. 



Capsule looulicidal, glabrous ... 13. Hbynea. 



Seeds exarillate. Calyx 4-5-partite. Flowers of moderate 



size 14. Beddomea. 



Anthers included. Ovules 2-8 together. Seeds angular . .15. Caeapa. 



Teebe III. Swletenieee. Stamens united into a tube. Cells of ovary 

 with, numerous ovules. Seeds not winged. 



Petals obovate, spreading. Staminal-tube cup-shaped. Disk wide. 

 Ovary o-celled .16. Sotmida. 



Petals oblong, erect-patent. Staminal-tube cyliddrical. Disk ob- 

 solete. Ovary 3-oelled 17. Chiokkassia. 



Tribe IV. Cedreleae. ASawiems distinct. CWZso/wan/ 8-12-ovuIed. 



Petals oblong, erect. Stamens 4—6, sometimes with alternating 

 staminodes. Ovary 5-oelled. Albumen thin fleshy ; cotyledons 

 eubfoliaceous . 18. Cedkela. 



Petals unguiculate, spreading. Stamens 10. Ovary 3-celled. 

 Albumen wanting ; cotyledons plano-convex 19. CHLOiBoxYLOs. 



1. TITBRSiA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, quite entire or obtusely lobed. 

 Peduncles axillary, with numerous small bracts at base, bearing elongated 

 white or yellow flowers. Calyx campanulate, 5^4-fid. Petals 5-i, elongated, 

 spathulate, imbricated in bud, free, diverging in fuU flower. Staminal- 

 tvhe elongated, toothed at the apex ; anthers 10 or 8, short, inserted just 

 within the mouth, alternating with the teeth. Bish annular or obsolete. 

 Owiry 5- or more-ceUed ; cells opposite the calyx-lobes when equal in 

 number to them, with 2 superposed ovules; style elongated, exserted, 

 Stigma capitate. Capsule 4- or more-ceUed, loculicidal; valves woody or 

 coriaceous, separating from the winged axis. Seeds with a broad ventral 

 hilum, albumen fleshy; embryo foliaceous. — Distbib. A genus of 12-16 

 species, confined to tropical Asia, and tropical and South Africa. 



1. T. virens, Linn. Mant. Plant, alt. 237; glabrate, shining, leaves 

 eUiptic-oblong subacuminate emarginate coriaceous, base obtuse, flowers 

 yellow, style just exserted, capsule hairy. Sm. PI. Ic. t. 10 ; not of Eel- 

 lenius ; Ordh. Gat. Bvmh. PI. 31 ; Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 181 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 36. 



Western Peninsula; amongst lava heaps, Kmnig ; common on the Ghats, Dalz. & 

 6ihs. 



. An evergreen shrub, 3-4 ft. high, or a tree: Leaves 2J-3| by 1-1 f in., shortly 

 petioled, margins slightly revolute, paler beneath. Mowers l-lj in. long, in axillary 



