but on the under paler. 
The Flowers crown the -Extremities of the 
Branches in large Clufters, _ 
They are feparately fall, and they are plac’d 
on long and flender Footftalks. . Their Colour 
is a faint Purple, paler toward the Edges, and 
fomewhat deeper in the Middle. 
The Fruit which follows is of a-rounded Form, 
and foft on the Outfide ; it contains a Stone alfo 
of a roundifh Shape, but furrow’d in five Places, 
and divided within into as many Cells ; in each of 
which is contain’d an oblong Seed. | 
The Flower has fomething in its Conftruétion 
fo extremely fingular, that it very well deferves 
the mott curious Infpection. The Cup in which 
it ftands is fmall, form’d of a fingle Piece, 
and is divided at the Edge into five little upright 
Segments. , 7 | 
The Body of the Flower is compos’d of five Pe- 
tals, but one is frequently abortive: thefe are ob- 
- long, narrow, and wide expanded; and in their 
~ Midft rifes a Neétarium of a peculiar Shape : it is. 
Jong, upright, tubular, and form’d of a fingle 
Piece, divided by ten flight Indentings at the 
Edge. | rs 
Within this fingular Appendage ftand the Fila- 
ments; they are in Number ten, correfponding 
to its tenIndentings. They are extremely fhort ; — 
they have their Infertion on the Infide of the Nec- 
tarium, but a little below its indented Rim; and 
they are crown’d with {mall Antherz or Buttons, 
whofe Heads fearce rife above it. The Rudiment 
of the Fruit is lodg’d at the Bottom; and its 
Style, which is fingle, rifes to the Height of the 
Filaments. i. ee | 
The Student will not be at a Lofs from this 
to find the Clafs to which the Melia belongs in 
the Linn zan Syftem, or the Sub-divifion under 
which it is arrang’d. It is one of the Decandria 
Monogynia. 
Culture of the Meta. 
The Tree is a Native of Ceylon, and many other 
Parts of the Ea, where it lives in barren Ground, 
and cloaths the naked Rocks with its profufe Ver- 
dure at all Seafons. | : 
' Notwithftanding the Warmth of its native Cli- 
mate, the Tree will ftand our Winters in the open |, 
N® a1. 
; Jan. derately broad, fharp-pointed, and ferrated. Their 
, Colour is a very bright green on the upper Side, . 
NIN G. 
Air, when it has arriy’d at a moderate Strength: 
OF GARD 
Jan. 
but Care is requir’d to bring it to this Stature, and — 
a proper Soil and Expofure mutt be allotted for 
it when planted out, or our Frofts will kill it. 
__ Nature direéts what we are to do with Refpect 
to thefe Articles. The Place where it is planted 
out, muft be warm and dry, open to the Sun, 
and fhelter’d from cold Winds ; and the Soil must 
be a dry and not over rich Pafture Earth. 
This is the Ground to receive it when of fix 
Years Growth; but to bring it to this Strength 
more Caution is required. 
_ The Fruit is to be gather’d when perfectly ripe; 
and the Stones having lain fome Time to dry, 
the Kernels are to be taken out of them: thefe 
muft be left four Days upon a paper’d Shelf, and 
then fown in the following Manner : 
Fill two Pots with freth Pafture-Mould, and 
{trew over the Surface of each half a dozen of 
thefe Kernels, and as many of the whole Stones : 
fift a Quarter of an Inch of the Earth over them, 
fet the Pots up to the Rim in a Bark-Bed, 
and give them a little Water: one or other of 
the two Kinds will certainly fucceed. 
_ When the Plants come up, they muft be wa- 
ter’d at Times, and by Degrees harden’d to the 
Aur, by raifing the Glaffes. | 
Let them be nurs’d up in this Manner till the. 
Fleat of Summer, and then remov’d carefully 
into the open Air among the Greenhoufe 
Plants. : : 
At Autumn let them be remov’d with the 
_Teft into the Houfe: and the fucceeding Spring 
let them be carefully taken up, and planted into 
feparate Pots, fetting thefe up to the Rim in a 
Bark-Bed, till they have again taken Root. 
After this they muft be by Degrees inur’d again 
to the Air, and fet out with the other Green- 
houfe Plants. - 
From this Time they require the common 
Management. of the other Green-houfe Plants, 
till they are of fuch an Age as we have nam’d for 
planting in the open Ground: this muft be done 
in April, with great Care; fhaking them out of 
the Pot with the Ball of Earth entire; and plant-. 
ing them in a Hole where the Mould is well 
broke. 
They muft be water’d carefully till well fix’d - 
in their new Place, and they will then require no 
farther Care. » 
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