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MELIA sempervirens. 
West Indian Bead-tree. 
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DECANDRIA JIONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MELWIACER. Jussieu gen. 263; et in mém. du mus. dhist. nat. 
3. 436, Div. IF, Folia composita. 
MELIA. Cal. minimus 5-fidus. Petula 5 oblonga. Stamina 10, tubo 
cylindrico 10-dentato, dentibus antheras intis adnatas obtegentibus. Stigma 
capitatum. Drupa globosa feeta nuce 5-loculari 5-sperma.  Frutices ; folia 
impari-pinnata, aut bipinnata; flores paniculati axillares. Embryo seminis 
intra albumen carnosum tenue. Jussieu loc. cit. 265. 
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M. sempervirens, foliis pinnatis foliolis rugosiusculis subseptenis. Swartz 
rod. 67. ; 
Melia sempervirens. Swartz obs. 171. Ejusd. flor. ind. occid. 2. 737. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. 559. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Melia Azedarach. 8: sempervirens. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 550. 
Azedarach sempervirens et florens. _ Tournef, inst. 616. 
OBS. Ab Azedarach distincta est, nec pro varictate wstimari debet. Dif- - 
fert enim ab illa, quod tota planta minor et sepe floret biennis, quod 
foliola leté viridia, rard plusquam 7, rugosiuscula, profundits et magis 
inequaliter serrata et acuminata. Swartz obs. 171; (manuscriptis 
b. Solandri in biblioth. banksiana repositis subducta.) 
Metra Azedarach differt a sempervirente quod planta major, quod petioli 
prope basin teretiores, quod foliola plura, sepits 9 vel 11, longiis petio- 
lata, saturate viridia, plana, nitida subtis punctis minimis ferrugincis 
adspersa. Solander MSS. in biblioth. banks. S45 
Tubus stamineus hypogynus, sanguineo-fuscescens, eatus glaber, intis 
pubescens, corolla equalis, erectus, breve decemfidus, lobulis trifidis, lacinulis _ 
subulatis media brevissima tntrorsim antheriferd: anthere meline, erecte, 
introrse, ab imo dorso inserte, oblonge, cuspidate, biloculares loculis lon- 
gitudinalitér dehiscentibus : pollen granulosum, granulis sphericis. Germ. 
virens, glabrum ovatum esulcum, estriatum; stylus continuus, tubo stamineo 
equalis, virens, glaber, tereti-clongatus, robustus ; stigma apex obtusus iso- 
perimetrus subcoloratus pentacollis. 
ee ae = Nl el wast 
Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s 
Road, where the plant has flowered the second year from 
seed imported from the Calcutta Garden, into which, 
according to Dr. Roxburgh, it was introduced from the 
West Indies. 
The species was first distinguished from Mrura Axzeda- 
rach by Dr. Solander, as is proved by his manuscripts in” 
Mr. Brown’s library, where we have copied the above Latin 
