MELIGOPE TERNATA. 119 
petioles, linear-oblong or ovate, cuneate below, acute. Flowers in axillary 
trichotomous panicles, pedicels short ; calyx inferior ; sepals, four; petals, four, 
spreading ; stamens, eight, erect, shorter than the petals. Ovary four-lobed, 
four-celled, each cell containing two ovules; style short; stigma minutely four- 
lobed. fruit usually consisting of four one-seeded carpels, wrinkled and 
punctate, connected at the base only. Seed black, shining ; testa crustaceous, 
endosperm copious. 
Var. Mantellu. Melicope Mantellii, |. Buchanan. Branches slender, erect, 
with red or dark-brown bark. Leaves dark-green, trifoliolate ; leaflets rounded 
at the point, entire or crenulate; lateral leaflets smaller than the central ; 
petioles shorter than the leaflets; jointed at blade, obtuse or emarginate, deeply 
channelled above, but not winged. Flowers small, whitish; cymes three- to six- 
flowered. Ovary silky above. 
EXPLANATION OF Pirates LXVI. ann LXVILI. 
LXVI. Melicope ternata, Yorster.. Flowering specimen, natural size. 
I. Flower. 2. Flower-buds. 3. Fruit. 5. Seed. 
LXVII. Melicope ternata, Forster. Var. Mantellii. A small form, natural 
size. 
Note.—For Melicope simplex, var. Mantellii, on Plate LXVIL., read M. ternata, var. Mantellit. 
