334 LVIII. MELIACE^. 



cells. Ovules ascending or jpendnlous, hiluw, usually ventral, microjpyle superior. 

 Fetjit dry or fleshy. Embryo albuminous or exalbuminous. — Stem woody. Leaves 

 alternate. 



Large or small trees, or rarely undeeshrubs ; wood often hard, coloured, 

 sometimes odoriferous. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, very rarely dotted {Flin- 

 dersia), pinnate or rarely simple, entire. Flowees ^ , or rarely polygamo-dioecious, 

 regular, terminal or axillary, panicled. Calyx generally small, 4-5-fid or -partite, 

 Eestivation usually imbricate. Petals hypogynous, 4-5, rarely 3-7, sometimes free 

 and contorted or imbricate, sometimes connate, or adnate to the staminal tube, and 

 valvate. Stamens generally 8 or 10, rarely 5, very rarely 16-20, inserted with the 

 petals outside of the base of a hypogynous disk ; filaments united by their margins 

 into a more or less complete tube, entire or toothed or variously laciniate, very 

 rarely free [Gedrela) ; anthers introrse, sessile or sub-sessile on the staminal tube, 

 included or exserted, dehiscence longitudinal, connective sometimes lengthened. 

 Disk various, usually annular or tubular and sheathing, free, or adnate to the 

 ovary {Trichilia) or staminal tube [Mallea). Ovary free, usually 3-5-celled ; style 

 simple ; stigma disciform or pyramidal ; ovules usually 2 in each cell, collateral or 

 superimposed, very rarely solitary, sometimes 6 or more {Gedrela, Swietenia), ascending 

 or pendulous, raphe ventral, micropyle superior. Fruit various : sometimes a drupe 

 {Melia, Mallea) or berry [Vavcea, Sandoricum), sometimes a capsule, loculicidal 

 [Trichilia, &c.) or septifragal {Gedrela, Swietenia, &c.). Seeds exalbuminous, or 

 with fleshy albumen, winged {Swietenia, Gedrela, &c.) or not {Melia, Trichilia, &e.). 

 Embryo flat, hilum usually ventral ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle usually sunk between 

 the cotyledons and superior, sometimes vague. 



Tribe I. MELTED. 



Stamens united into a tube. Ovary with 2-ovuled cells. Seeds not winged; 

 albumen thin, fleshy. Fruit a capsule {Quivisia, Turrwa, &c.) or drupe {Melia, 

 Mallea) or berry {ya,voea).- Cotyledons plano-convex or foliaceous. — Leaves simple, 

 3-foliolate or pinnate, or decompound. 



GENERA. 



Quivisia. TiuTEea. Vavtea, Munvouia. Melia. Mallea. 



Azadirachta. Na,regamia. Calodryum. 



Teibe II. TBIGHILIE^. 



Stamens united in a tube. Ovary with 1-2-ovuled cells. Seeds not winged, 

 exalbuminous. Fruit a capsule {Garapa, Trichilia, Guarea, &c.) or berry {Sando- 

 ricum, Milnea~ Dasycoleum, Lansium, &e.). Cotyledons thick. — Leaves pinnate. 



PEINCIPAl GENERA. 



Dysoxylum. Chisocheton. Epieharis. Cabralen. Sandoricum. Aglaia 



Milnea. Lansium. Amoora. Guarea. Walsura. Ekebergia. 



Odontandra. Heynea. Moschoxj'lon. Trichilia. Oarapa. Owenia. . 



' Theae tribes are those proposed by Bentham and Hooker fil. in the 'Genera Plantariim.'— Ed. 



