18 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [NoVl, 
imbricated in bud. Staminal-tube cylindrical, dilated at base and apex, 
10- or 12-striate and -toothed; anthers 10 or 12, included or partly ex- 
serted, short, inserted near apex. Dish annular. Ovary 3- 6-celled ; cells 
alternate to the sepals when equal in number to them. Style slender, 
nearly as long as the tube, stigma capitate ; ovules 2, superposed. Fruit 
drupaceous. Seeds with thin fleshy albumen; cotyledons foliaceous. 
Pistrib. About 12 species ; Indo-Malayan. 
Petals concave, obtuse; ripe drupe 1 to P5 
in. long ... ... ... 1 . M. composita. 
Petals flat, sub-acute ; ripe drupe ‘6 to - 7 in. 
long ... ... ... ... 2. M. Azedarach . 
1. Melia composita, Willd. Sp. Plant. II. 558. A tall tree; young 
branches rather stout, at first covered with pale loose stellate pubescence, 
ultimately smooth and of a dark colour. Leaves 1 to 2 feet long, bi- or 
occasionally tri-pinnate, the leaflets on each pinna 5- to 11, petiolulate, 
from ovate-lanceolate to ovate-rotund, often oblique at the base, acumi¬ 
nate, serrulate or entire; the main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, sub-horizontal, 
rather distinct on the lower surface; both surfaces sparsely stellate- 
pubescent when young, ultimately glabrous. Panicles shorter than the 
leaves, pedunculate, spreading, stellate-hairy, many-flowered. Floivers 
•3 to '35 in. long. Calyx lobes erect, ovate-lanceolate, stellate-tomentose 
outside, pubescent or glabrous inside, much shorter than the petals. 
Petals linear-spathulate, concave, pubescent externally, puberulous 
internally. Staminal tube nearly as long as the petals, slightly 
expanded at the 10-toothed mouth ; the teeth bifid, silky-puberulous 
on both surfaces; anthers exserted, pubescent. Stigma 5-toothed. 
Drupe ovoid, 1 to 1‘5 in. long, smooth, yellowish. Seeds one in each 
cell, smooth, pointed. W. and A. Prod. I. 117. (excl. syn. M. superba , 
Roxb.) ; Dalz. and Gibs. PI. Bomb. 36; Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 
59; Becld. FI Sylvat. t. 12; Brandis For. Flora 69. M. dubia, Hiern 
(not of Cav.) in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 545; De Cand. Monog. 
Phan. I. 453; Trimen Flora Ceylon Vol. 1. 243 (exc. Prom all the syn. 
M. superba , Roxb.). M. robusta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33; FI. Ind. II, 397. 
M. australasica , Adr. Juss. in Mem. Mus. XIX, 257. M. sethiopica and 
M. Bombolo, Welw. Apontam. Phyto-Geogr. Prov. Angola, 584 and 561. 
M. argentea , Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 1254 C. 
Malacca: Maingay Xo. 317 (Kew Dist.), and probably in some of 
the other provinces. Distrib. Brit. India, Ceylon, Australia, Angola. 
This is a widely-spread species, and has received many names. 
From the synonymy above quoted, I have excluded M. sup>erba Roxb., 
which I believe to be a distinct species, with which the tree named 
M. Birmanica by Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 43, pt. 2, p. 183 ; 
