Toddalia.] XXXIII. RUTACKJE (olivek). 307 



2. T. lanceolata, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 83. A glabrous, unarmed, 

 small tree or shrub. Leaflets rather coriaceous, ternate, elongate-oval or 

 oval-lanceolate, subacute or rather obtuse, often much narrowed to the base, 

 obsoletely undulate, with looping veins, 3-4 in. long, f-1 in. broad, sessile 

 or subsessile at the extremity of an exalate petiole of 1-2 in. Flowers 

 4-merous, equalling or exceeding the pedicels, in terminal alternately branch- 

 ing panicles shorter than the leaves. Calyx broadly 4-lobed ; lobes rotun- 

 date-deltoid. Petals slightly imbricate. Male fl. : Stamens 8, rudiment of 

 the ovary 4-fid. Fruit normally 4-celled, 4-seeded, 4-lobed or -furrowed 

 while immature, at length distinctly fleshy ; about \ in. diam. when dry. Testa 

 crustaceous, black, thicker on the ventral side. — Vepris querimbensis, Klotzsch 

 in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 87. 



Mozamb. Distr. Right bank of the Luabo and mouth of the Zambesi, Dr. Kirk I 

 Mozambique, Peters ! 

 Also at the Cape aud in Mauritius. See Harvey in ' Flora Capensis,' i. 447. 



3. T. ? sp. Prickles very short, recurved. Leaflets oblanceolate or 

 broadly oval, narrowed to the obtuse apex or shortly and obtusely acumi- 

 nate, obscurely crenulate-dentate above with very narrowly revolute margins 

 when dry, midrib occasionally with 2 or 3 minute curved prickles ; 1|— 2 in. 

 l° n g, f in. broad more or less. Petiole \ in., pubescent on the inner side. 

 Flowers in short axillary racemes (?), pedicellate. Calyx minute, thick, 5- 

 lobed. Ovary 5-celled ; ovules apparently geminate. Young fruit baccate, 

 2-3-celled. (Aff. T. aculeate?) 



Wile Land. Ankober, Abyssinia, Roth ! 



Our single specimen hardly suffices to enable me to determine this plant. 



4. CLATJSENA, Burm. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 304. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-(5-)k)bed. Petals 4 (5), slightly im- 

 bricate. Stamens 8 (10), free. Ovary 4-(5-)3-celled. Style at length se^ 

 parating. Ovules geminate, collateral or superimposed. Berry 1-4-celled, 

 1 ~4-seeded. Seed exalbuminous.— Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves un- 

 equally pinnate. Flowers in axillary or terminal panicles or racemes. 



A small genus chiefly confined to India and the Archipelago. The two following species 

 are nearl y allied to the Indian C. Willdenovii. 

 s 'i>all tree, 10-20 ft. Le aves 3_6(-10) in. Flowers collected in 3- 



nowered cymes or solitary along the raceme \ . C. incsquahs 



t-nucrshrub, 3-10 ft. Leaves $-1 ft. Flowers in several- or many- 



nowered paniculate cymes &• C. anisata. 



1- C. inaequalis, Benth. FL Nigrit. 257. A shrub or small tree of 



JJ 20 ft. Extremities puberulous or nearly glabrous. Leaves 9-17-foho- 



e ; 3 ~ 6 rarely 10 in. long; leaflets alternate, ovate-oblong or varying from 



*ate to lanceolate or elliptical, obtuse, often narrowed to the apex or ob- 



se y acuminate, crenulate, the lateral oblique, shortly petiolulate, £-2 in. 



arei y 3-4 in. long. Flowers white, in axillary compound or simple racemes 



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