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RUTA pinnata. 

 Canary Huf, 



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Nat, ord^ IluTACE^ Jussjeit gen, 296. Div* IL Folia alfern*. 



RUTA, CuL 5-partitus parvuti perfiistens* Pei, S unguiculata coj\* 

 cava. Fil, has! iatiora- Stig, 1. Caps, 5-loba» ^^loc, inter apices quique* 

 fari&m dehi3cens» loculis patyspermis: semina renjformia. HhrlM aut wf* 

 JruticBSy fo{ia simplicia aut s^ius X-^-pinnata ; Jlores terminalts CQTtfn^m 

 aut cymosif in B. graTeolei)te amrfes s^mmo excepto 4f'petali S-antfri f-foc^' 

 lares, Ju^. ]. c, 297- 



U^pinnaia^ foliis pinnatis^ foliolis lanceolaiis bati attiQDifatjs fterratq-crett^tiiy 



pelalis integerrimis. Hort. Kew, 2. 58* 

 ^uta ptanata. Linn, suppl. 232, fVilld^ sp, jd, 2. 544-* Ifart, Kep, etL 2. 



a- 35. 



Frutex erectusy glauciusculuSt tritm digitis resinam redoUns; rami teretes, 

 jmnctis minuiis scabrati, Fol* ^-uncialia v. magUt abomnipaficpuncticulaia^ 

 nlterna, distantia^ impari-pinnatay bi-trijuga, paifiniissimijy suUus albicantia^ 

 tuprema dmjdicia^ senst^ in nfcras bracteas decrescentia ; fuliola erenatO' 

 ^entatay deorsum attenuatai petiolatq, subbiuncialia, hteraliay Hor^ato- 

 ohtongay sublanceolaia, opposita, distantia, terminate latiuty subav(ilo4anceo^^ 

 iiftttm: petiojus commui^is S-nncialiSy teresy strictiusculiu, articulo JlexUi 

 pallida subtumido ramo annexus, Flores^oi, in summit ramis corymboso* 

 j>aniculaii; peduncuH axiUares et termmales, suprh ^foliaceo^umosi^ tub' 

 dichotomiy purifiori^ ascendentes: pedicelU teretes, Izfioriy subagualet co- 

 TfMct, Cal- 4- ffions primarii 5-?) partitus, subcoriaceoherbaceus, per' 

 sisiensy segnientis 3 acuminatis appresstSy uno myore ligulato-oblongo recurve 

 fatenle. Cor. ^-(Ji-oris primarii S-?) petalay caduca. Germ, subghbotumy 

 Ytrenst suprh ptilvinaio^^-5'lobumy umbdicatumy insidens disco crasso duriut 

 carnosp extiis lutescente inferne poris. 10 circumcircd pertuso^ 4f-5't<^lfijtj 

 pr{efixum stylo seti/qrnfi erecto persisfente. 



Nine qi the ten «pecics which have been rpcpr^pd of this 

 genus helong either to the south of Europe, the I-evant, 

 t>oast of Barbary, Egypt, or Arabia, The present is indi- 

 genous of the C^naiy Iglaijds, and was jn^cpduced by Mr, 

 Francis M^ssotj in 1780. It has not bepp represented by 

 ^ny publislipd fignpe; and was by pq means a common 

 plant in our coljcctioqs. We were favpjjred with the speci* 

 meo by Mr. Biggs, the Curator of the Pptanic (Jardeu at 

 Canjbiridge, 



The type of this genus does not seem to have been ob- 

 served in any part of the New World. 



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