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XIV. RUTACEA?. 
[ Melicope . 
1. M. ternata, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 43. A glabrous, small tree, 12- 
15 ft. high; branches rather stout. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate ; leaflets 
3-4 in. long, ovate or linear-oblong, acute, quite entire, longer than the 
petioles. Flowers in. diam., greenish-white, in peduncled, trichotomous, 
axillary cymes ; bracts deciduous. Petals ovate, longer than the stamens, 
margins imbricate. Ovary quite glabrous ; style short. Carpels 4, spread- 
ing, coriaceous, strongly wrinkled ; seed small, black, projecting from the 
fissure, attached bv a slender funicle. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. C03. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander , etc. : not uncommon as far 
South as the Nelson Province. 
2. M. simplex, A. Cum. ; — -FI. N. Z. i. 43. A glabrous shrub, 6-8 ft; 
high; branches slender. Leaves alternate, scattered or fascicled, small, of 1 
(very rarely 3, of which the lateral are minute), orbicular obovate or ovate, 
obtuse, doubly cremate leaflet, -|-f in. long, jointed on the top of a flattened 
almost winged petiole, \ in. long, which is broader towards the leaflet and 
channelled above. Pedicels several together, axillary, slender, longer than 
the petioles, 1-4-flowered, bracteolate at the forks. Flowers very small, 
greenish-white. Petals linear-oblong, shorter in the male flowers than the 
stamens, valvate, or with the edges a little overlapping. Ovary oblong, hir- 
sute ; style in the female flowers slender ; stigma capitate. Fruit as in M. ter- 
nata , but much smaller. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 585. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander , etc. : not uncommon along the 
whole coasts to Otago. A very different-looking plant from M. ternata. 
Order XV. MELIACEiE. 
Trees (rarely shrubs). Leaves usually pinnate, alternate, exstipulate. 
Flowers regular, generally hermaphrodite. — Calyx small, 4 or 5-lobed or 
-parted, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, contorted valvate or imbricate, often long, 
sometimes united to the staminal tube. Disk free or wanting, sometimes 
tubular within the stamens. Stamens usually 8 or 10, more or less united into 
a tube, bearing the sessile anthers within its mouth, which is often toothed or 
split. Ovary free, 3-5 -celled ; style single, terminal, stigma capitate; cells 
2-ovuled. Fruit a drupe berry or capsule, usually the latter, coriaceous, 3- 
celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds generally solitary in the cells, mostly 
arillate and ex albuminous. 
A very large Order of tropical forest-trees, of which various genera present characters of 
the flower and fruit at variance with the above description. The Mahogany ( Swietenia ), 
Satin-wood ( Chloroxylon ), and Pride-of-India ( Melia ), all belong to it. 
1. DYSOXYLTJM, Blume. 
Large forest-trees, often fetid or with a garlicky smell. Leaves alternate, 
pinnate. Flowers rather small, in axillary panicles. — Calyx short, 4 or 5-lobed 
-toothed or -parted, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, linear-oblong, valvate, some- 
times united at the base and with the staminal tube, which is cylindric, 8 or 10- 
toothed ; anthers 8 or 10, included. Disk tubular, sheathing the 3-5-celled 
ovary. Capsule coriaceous, globose or pyriform, 1-5-celled, 2-5-valved, 
