An upright slightly glaucous shrub, when bruised emit- 

 ting a resinous odour, the flavour of which however is not 

 rank and nauseous, like that of the common Garden Rue ; 

 branches round, roughened at the surface by minute pro- 

 jecting specks. Leaves about 4 inches long or more, co- 

 vered with small dots on both sides, alternate, distant, 

 unequally pinnate, of from two to three pairs of leaflets, 

 widespread, whitish underneath, uppermost simple, and 

 diminishing at last into mere bractes; leaflets lanceo- 

 late, crenately toothed, tapered downwards, petioled, about 

 2 inches long, side ones elongatedly oblong, sublanceolate, 

 opposite, wideset, terminal one broadest, subovately lan- 

 ceolate: commora /)e/iWe about 3 inches long, round, stiffish, 

 fixed to the branch by a pale glandular flexile somewhat en- 

 larged joint. Flowers deep yellow, forming a corymbose 

 panicle at the tops of the branches: peduncles axillary and 

 terminal leafily cymose at the upper part, subdichotomous, 

 several-flowered, ascendent: pedicles round, one-flowered, 

 about equal to the corolla. Calyx 4- (perhaps in the pri- 

 mary flowers of the panicle 5- ?) parted, subcoriaceously 

 herbaceous, persistent with 13 acuminate and close-pressed 

 segments, the fourth larger llgulately oblong spreading and 

 recurved.. Corolla 4- (primary flowers 5- ?) petalled, cadu- 

 cous. Germen subglobular, green, pulvinately 4-5-lobed at 

 the upper part, umbilicated, 4-celled, seated upon a thick 

 hardish fleshed circular basement (disk) which is yellowisli 

 \nthout and perforated at the lower part of its circumference 

 by. ten oozing pores : style bristleshaped, upright, pet- 

 siatent. 



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