16 Gr. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.—By George King, 
M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., C.I.E., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 
Garden , Calcutta. 
No. 7. 
In working out the difficult family of Meliacese , I have had the 
great advantage of being able to consult a suite of the specimens of 
Blume and Miquel, which were kindly lent to me, for the purposes of 
comparison and study, by Drs. Suringar and Boerlage, of the Leiden 
Herbarium. Many specimens, chiefly of Bornean species, were, through 
the kindness of its Director, Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., also lent 
to me from the Kew Herbarium, some of which were enriched by notes 
by Dr. 0. Stapf, a member of the staff of that Institution. 
Order XXVII. Meliacese. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, usually pinnate, 
rarely simple or bipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, usually quite 
entire and more or less oblique at the base. Flowers hermaphrodite or 
polygamo-dioecious, regular, usually in axillary panicles. Calyx 3- 6- 
lobed, sometimes entire or with free sepals, usually imbricated in bud. 
Petals 3-6, free or rarely connate at the base, sometimes adhering to 
the lower half of the staminal tube, valvate or imbricated. Stamens 
3-12, inserted outside the base of the hypogynous disk; filaments 
connate in a tube or rarely free ; anthers erect, usually sessile on the 
tube, included or exserted, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Hypogy- 
nous disk tubular annular or obsolete, free or connate with the ovary. 
Ovary usually free, 2- 5-celled ; style single, stigma disciform or capitate; 
ovules 2, rarely more, collateral or superposed, raphe ventral, micropyle 
superior. Fruit capsular, drupaceous or baccate. Seeds exalbuminous or 
sometimes with fleshy albumen, often enclosed in an aril.— Distrib. 
About 700 species, mostly tropical. 
