20 Gf. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula . [No. 1, 
eluded, like M. robusta , Roxb., under M. composita, Willd. For the teeth 
of the mouth of the staminal tube of the latter are at most bifid, while 
its inner surface is nearly glabrous. The only specimens of Melia known 
to me which fits Roxburgh’s description in these and other respects, were 
collected in Burma by the late S. Kurz, and were described by him 
under the name M. birmanica, (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1874, ii. 183; 
For. Flora Burmab, I, 213). And I know of no other specimens of M. 
birmanica than those of Kurz’s collecting. Certainly Maingay’s No. 317 
(Kew Distrib.) is not the same, as I have determined by dissecting 
flowers of both. M. composita , Willd., is not really very distinct from 
the Japanese M. Toosedan , Sieb. and Zucc., which, in turn, is closely 
allied to M. Azadirach. There are, by the way, in the Calcutta Herba¬ 
rium, specimens from the Kliasia Hills, Munipore, the plains of Assam 
and also from Sumatra, which, as far as I see, cannot be distinguished 
from Japanese specimens of M. Toosedan. If this identification be cor¬ 
rect, the geographical area of the latter species will have to be largely 
extended. 
M. Azadirachta, Linn., is not found in the Malayan Provinces even 
planted. But M. Azadarach, Linn., is very common planted. It pre¬ 
sents several varieties, some of which have been elevated to the rank 
of species. 
Roxburgh describes a Penang plant which he names Melia tomen - 
tosa. Of this no specimen is known now to exist. But he left an 
excellent coloured drawing of it in the Calcutta Herbarium, which shows 
it to be no Melia but a Ghisocheton. Jack describes (Malayan Miscel¬ 
lanies I, 12) a Penang species which he named Media excelsa. The only 
specimens known of this are what Wallicli issued (under this name) 
as No. 1253 b. of his catalogue. The only Wallichian specimens of this 
which I have seen are without flowers: they have simple long pinnate 
leaves, and their facies is not that of Melia but of some other genus. 
2. Melia Azidarach, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I., 384. A small tree ; 
young branches rather slender, at first scurfy-puberulous, afterwards 
dark-coloured and glabrous. Leaves 1 *5 to 2 feet long, bi-pinnate, gla¬ 
brous when adult; pinnae about 3 pairs, the uppermost often 3-foliolate; 
pinnulse 5 to 7, opposite or sub-opposite, obliquely ovate or oblong-ovate, 
acuminate, shortly petiolulate, 1*5 to 2 in. long, when young coarsely 
serrate, when adult serrulate or sub-entire. Panicles shorter than the 
leaves, shortly pedunculate, spreading, lax, few-flowered, at first stellate- 
puberulous but ultimately glabrous. Flowers ‘35 in. long. Calyx-lobes 
oblong-lanceolate, pubescent. Petals flat, oblanceolate-spathulate, puber- 
ulous. Staminal tube lilac, expanding at the 30-toothed mouth, glabrous 
