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(3-5 cent, longos) fasciculatos parce ramososdispositi; pedicellis 

 articulatis bracleatis. Sepala k, 5, e cicatricibus nola. Germina 

 totidem libéra sessilia obovata glabra punctulata; ovulis 2, subsu- 

 perpositis descendentibus; micropyle supera. Fructus cocci 1-5, 

 subsessiîes stellatim divarieati inœquali-obovoidei (12 mill. longi, 

 10 mill. lati) coinpressi, 2-valvi; exocarpio demum siccato coriaceo 

 rugoso,a putamine pergamentaceo soluto; funiculo adscendentc 

 pallido persistente, a putamine libero. Semen 1, loculo conforme, 

 amarissimum, esummo funiculo descendens; hilo lineari- elongato; 

 insequali-ovoideum compressum; testa nigra brcvissima nitida 

 crassissima durissimaque ; albumine parco albido oleoso ; em- 

 bryonis carnosi oleosi cotyledonibus subplanis ; radicula supera 

 longiuscula recta v. subcurvata. — Species, ut e descript. patef, 

 GeijemscumZantkoxylis arcte genuinisconjungens [Geijera unde 

 pro mera gcneris sect. habenda est), viget in insula Lifu, ubi ad 

 Chepene/ieleu;. cl. Balansa(e\s., n. 1801), in sylvisjulio frucli- 

 feram(Herb. Mus. par.). 



l/l9. Evodia (Melicope) sarcococca. 



Frutex (û-6-metralis, test. Balansu); ramis teretibus glabratis; 

 ramulis junioribus tenuissime ferrugineo-puberulis. Folia opposita 

 simplicia; petiolo supra canaliculato (1, 2 cent, longo) ad apicem 

 incrassato articulatoque; limbo (folioli) elliptico v. subobovato 

 (ad 9 cent, longo, 5 cent, lato), basi breviter attcnuato, apice 

 rotundato v. emarginato, inlegerrimo coriaceo glaberrimo penni- 

 nervio dite tenuissimequereticulato-venoso, pellucide punctulato. 

 Flores solitarii, breviter ( ^ cent.) pedunculati, /i-meri. Petala /j, 

 calyce o-plo longiora (ad-J mill.) lanceolataimbricata (verisimil. 

 alba, insicco rubescentia). SlaminaS, quorum oppositipetala 4, bre- 

 viora; antheris parvis (effœtis?). Gynœeei carpella 4; germinibus 

 ima basi connatis, moxliberis; stylis gracilibus, mox in unum 

 coadunatis apiceque in caput latum stigmatosum dilatatis ; ovulis in 

 loculis singulis 2, descendentibus. Fructus (pro génère magnus, 

 2 cent, altus, 2^ cent, lattis) e coccis k constans, cruciatim dis- 



