1895.] G. King —Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 17 
Key to the Genera. 
Stamens united in a tube. 
# Cells of ovary with 1 or 2 ovules in each. 
Leaflets serrate ; fruit drupaceous ... 1. Melia, 
Leaflets entire ; fruit baccate or capsular. 
Flowers and staminal tube narrow, elongate ; style elongate. 
Stigmas 5 or 5-toothed ; leaves trifoliolate ; fruit 
baccate ... ... ... 2. Sandoricum, 
Stigmas entire, single; leaves pinnate; fruit capsular 
or sub-capsular. 
Petals in 2 rows; ovary 7- to 9-celled, with 1 ovule 
in each cell; disk short, inferior to ovary 3. Megaphylljia. 
Petals in a single row ; ovary 2-to 4-celled. 
Disk short, anuular; ovules solitary in the cells 
of the ovary ... ... 4. Chisocheton. 
Disk cylindric, longer than the ovary; ovules 2 
in each cell of the ovary ... 5. Dysoxylum. 
Flowers and staminal tube globose or turbinate, style 
short or absent. 
Anthers included or incurved. 
Petals 3 ; fruit dehiscent or not ... 6. Amoora. 
Petals 5; fruit indehiscent. 
Style none ... ... 7. Aglaia. 
Style short, thick ... ... 8. Lansium. 
Anthers exserted, never incurved, only partially united 
into a tube (in two species of Walsura not united.) 
Petals 5; fruit baccate, indehiscent ... 9. Walsura. 
Petals 4 or 5 ; fruit capsular, dehiscent 10. Heynea. 
**Cells of ovary 2- to 8-ovuled; stigma discoid; fruit capsular; 
seeds large, fleshy, not winged ... ... 13. Carapa. 
###Cells of ovary with numerous ovules in each ; stigma 
capitate ; fruit capsular ; seeds thin, winged 12. Chickrassia. 
Stamens distinct. 
Cells of ovary 8- to 12-ovuled; seeds membranous, winged 
13. Cedrela. 
Cells of ovary with 1 or 2 ovules, fruit baccate ; seeds not 
winged ... ... ... ... 9. Walsura. 
1. Melia, Linn. 
Trees with pinnate or 2- 3-pinnate leaves, toothed or entire leaflets 
and panicled axillary flowers; pubescence often stellate-mealy. Calyx 
short, 5-6 lobed, imbricated. Petals 5-6, free, spathulate-oblong, patent, 
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