FLORA OF ADEN. 
±4*5 
Uses .-—This plant yields a brown adhesive gum and the seeds afford 
a fixed oil. By the Arabs and Persians it has long been used as a 
medicine. 
The wood is handsomely marked and takes an excellent polish. 
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2 . Azadiraclita A. Juss. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets serrate. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary panicles. Calyx 5-partite. Petals 
5, much exceeding the calyx, free, imbricate. Staminal tube a little 
shorter than the petals, laciniate at the apex ; anthers within the tube at 
its apex, sessile, opposite to thelacinhe. Disk 0. Ovary 3-celled, the cells 
opposite the petals; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral ; style much exceed- 
ing the ovary ; stigma shortly cylindric, 3-toothed. 
Drupe 1-seeded, endocarp woody. Seed exalbuminous, ellipsoid ; 
cotyledons very thick and fleshy, acutely 2-lobed at the base ; radicle 
exserted from the cotyledons, superior. 
Species 1. 
Distribution : — Wild in the dry region of the Ira wadi valley from 
Prome upwards ; cultivated and naturalized in many hot climates. 
1. Azadiraclita indica A. Juss. M6m. M61, (1830) 68, t. 2, n. 5 ; C. 
DC. in DC. Monogr. Phan. I, 459, t. 6, fig. 10 ; W. & A. Prodr. I, 118 ; 
Wight Ic. t. 17 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 30; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. 
FI. 36; Trim. FI. Ceyl. 1,244; Harms in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. 
Ill, partlV, 287, fig. 160, M—S ; Cooke I FI. Bomb. Pres. I, 207 ; 
Brandis Ind. Trees 139. 
Melia Azadirachta Linn. Sp. PI. 385 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33 ; FI. 
Ind. II, 394; Griff. Notuke IV, 500 ; Wall. Cat. 1251 ; Bedd. FI. Sylv. 
t. 13; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. I, 544. 
Melia parviflora Moon Cat. 35. 
Melia indica Brandis For. FI. 67. 
Melia fraxinifolia Salisb. Prodr. 310. 
Melia japonica Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. Alt. 219. 
Melia pinnata Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. II, 482. 
Arabic namev — Neshem. English name : Neem or Margosa Tree, 
Description : — A large tree, 40-50 feet high, with a straight trunk. 
Leaves simply pinnate, 8 — 15 inches long, crowded near the ends of the 
branches ; leaflets 9 — 12, sub opposite, 1 — 3by| — inches, obliquely 
lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate, serrate glabrous on both surfaces, 
base inequilateral, acute ; petiolules very short. 
