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498 XXXIII. RUTACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Acrmychfa. 



10. ACB.ONVGKIJA., Forst. 



. Trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 1- rarely 3-foliolate, leaflets quite 

 entire. FUnvers small or rather large, yellow, in peduncled axillary and 

 terminal corymbs, polygamous. Calyx 4-lobed, sometimes enlarged after 

 flowering, imbricate, FeAals 4, spreading, revolute, valvate. Stamens % 

 inserted under a thick 8-angled tomentose disk, filainents^ subulate, the 

 alternate longer. Ovary inserted in the hollowed tip of the disk, tomentose, 

 4- celled; style terminal, stigma 4-grooved; ovules 2, superposed in each 

 cell Fruit a 4-celled drupe, or 4-valved loculicidal capsule. Seeds often 

 exiserted and pendulous from a slender funicle, testa black, albumen copious; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons oblong flat. — Disteib. About 15 species, natives 

 of tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. 



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\. A. laurifolia, BlumeBijd. 245 ; glabrous, leaves subopposite l-foUo- 

 late, leaflet elliptic subobovate or oblong, cymes long-peduncled very broaa 

 corj'mbuse, buds linear, petals linear villous within. A. pedunculata, JM 

 FL hid. Bat Sujyi^l. 532 ; Tkwaites Enum, 409 and 69 (Cyminosma) ; i/^oji- 

 Flor. Sylv, Anal. Gen. xlii. t. 6, f. 4. Cyminosma pedunculata, DC^ rrodr. 

 I 722 ; Wall. Cat 1205 ; W, d: A. Prodr. i. 147 ; WigM III i- 165, t 65 ; 

 Dalz. (b Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl. 17. C. Ankenda, Gcertii. FrucL \. 2«^;.t.^«' 

 f. 6 (bad) ; BO. Ic. Clausena simplicifolia, Dak. in Kew Journ. Bot. lU. Iba 

 Jambolifera pedunculate, Vahl Symb. iii. 52, t. 61. Gela lanceolata, Loicr. 

 Ft. Coch. i. 232. Selas lanceolatum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 216. Ximenia ian- 

 ceolata, DC. Frodr. I 533. Indeterm. Wall. Cat. 9028— Bheede Hart. MaL v. 

 p. 29, t. 15. , ' \; :. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, in hot valleys, alt. 3^000 ft. ; Khasia Mrs., alt. 0-|000 ft^j 

 Assam; Chittagoxg; Eastern Peninsula, from Rangoon to Penang and ^^^^^^ 

 Westerh PE.viNiiULA, OD the Ghats from Concan to Travancor, ascending to DUOU,i ., 

 Ceylon.— DisTiiiB. Sumatra, Java, Cocliin China. i. fqacd 



A small glabrous tree or shrub, with somewhat silky or puberalous young s^^^^?^ ^^ 

 iuaorescence. Leaves very variable; leaflets 2 -6 in,, obtuse or obtusely a^"™?jj^^^' 

 membranous, quite entire, much veined and reticulate on both surfaces. Cymes ^l^ 

 slender, oppositely branched, spreading, long-peduncled, corymbose ; bracts a^*;! , 

 teoles small. Flowers i-J in. diam^ fragrant, yellowish-white ; buds '^^^c^^'*^^^^^ 

 obtuse; pedicels slender. Sepals very small, rounded. Petals '^"^^^"^^^"^^B-rLeir/i 

 Lioad base, obtuse, revolute, more or less villous on the inner surface, t ^^^l 

 equalling the petals, slender, bearded below. Ovary villous; style short, ^j^^^^j^je, 

 tate. Drupe very variable in size, from a pea to a small cherry, 3~5-cellea, g 

 usually with a narrowed angular or grooved tip, sometimes narrowed at the base, ,. 

 times deeply lobed from the tip downwards. 



Var. 1 ; leaflets oblong, flowers about 4 in. diam. . , . j^flpe 



Var 2 ; leaflets 5-7 in. oblong-lanceolate, petals very sparingly villous witnm; 

 globose -rV in. diam. glabrous.— Sikkim, /. D. H, ... . ^^^\co^ 



Vak 3 ; leaflets 4-5 in. cymes very slender, flowers smaller (U in.), truii fa ^ 

 traded at the base.— Western Peninsula. i- elliptic' 



Var. 4; leaflets very small li-2 by \-\ in. very membranous narrowiy , r 



knceolate, cymes few-flowered.— Pulney Mts., Wight. •.-. Merged 



Var. 5; cymes few-flowered, fruit small turbinate lobed at the topv ^^ 



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. Var. 6 ; peduncles stout thick, branches 3-flowered, flowers large ah»osi i ■ ^ 

 petals much bearded within, fruit nearly | in. diam. Bubglobose puoei 

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1 A, Porteri, Hook /. ; leaves opposite l-foliolate, ^^^fffl'i^ 

 narruw, buds globose, petals ovate minutely pilose within.— >y^^*-^. ' 



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