Melia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Meliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees, with alternate, pinnate or pinnately compound leaves, the leaflets stalked and serrate, the showy white to purple flowers numerous, in large axillary panicles. Calyx 5-6-parted, the lobes imbricated. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, narrowly spatulate, spreading. Stamen-tube nearly cylindrie, dilated and cleft above, bearing 10 or 12 erect anthers. Disk annular. Ovary 3-6-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity; style slender; stigma 2-6-lobed or capitate. Fruit a small drupe, its stone 1-5-eelled, with 1 seed in each cell. [A Greek name of the Ash.] About 25 Asiatic species, the following typical.