190 Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Flowers small and inconspicuous. Calyx five-parted. Co- 

 rolla five-petaled. Stamineous tube subglobose, " entire at 

 the mouth ; anthers five, vj^ithin the tube. Style two. Stigmas 

 two, simple. Berries globose, about the size of the domestic 

 Lanseh, 1 — 2 celled, 1 — 2 seeded. Seeds enveloped in a 

 thin subtransparent pulpy tunic or envelope, which has some- 

 what the flower of the Lanseh, but with a bitterish and ra- 

 ther disagreeable smell. Carpology as in the L, domesticum. 



The leaves are pinnate with about seven leaflets, elliptic- 

 oblong, broader above and narrowing to the base, termi- 

 nating in a long obtuse acumen, entire, very smooth. 

 Petioles sprinkled as well as the branchlets with ferruginous 

 pulverulent tomentum. Stipules none. Panicles axilliary or 

 supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, composed of a few 

 short branches with small greenish flowers. 



Milnea is perhaps scarcely distinct from Lansium ; but 

 if admitted as a separate genus, the above will constitute a 

 second species differing from M. edulis, Roxb. in being 

 digynous, and may be denominated M. montana* 



MELIA EXCELSA. fW.J.) 



Decandria Monogynia. 



Foliis pinnatis, foliolis integerrimis, paniculis coarctatis 

 axillaribus foliis paullo longioribus. 

 Pulo Pinang. 



A lofty tree, with straight trunk and light grey bark. 

 Branches rough with the vestiges of the fallen leaves, foliose 

 at their summits. Leaves crowded, disposed in a spiral man- 

 ner, pinnate with an odd one which is often wanting, leaflets 

 subopposite, oblong-lanceolate, inequilateral, obtusely acumi- 

 nate, very entire, smooth, shining above. Petioles round, 

 smooth, thickened, and somewhat scaly at the base. Panicles 

 axillary, ascending, rather longer than the leaves, not diffuse. 

 Flowers pedicellate, pedicels bracteolate. Calyx very small, 



