RUTACEiE. 



pistil, which is attenuated towards the apex. Stigma 4-furrowed 

 not thicker than the style. Capsules 4, partly united, dehiscing 

 internally at the apex. Seeds dotted. — Perennial or suffrute- 

 scent herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnated, 

 or decompound, with pellucid dots. Flowers yellow or rarely 

 white, disposed in terminal corymbs or racemes : the number of 

 parts occasionally augmented by a fourth. 



429. R. graveolens Linn, sp.pl. 548. DC. prodr. i. 710. 

 Duk. orb. ii. t. 61. S. and C. ii. t. 71. — Common in sterile waste 

 places in many parts of the South of Europe. (Common Rue. ) 



A glaucous, hairless, erect, herbaceous or half-shrubby plant, with a 

 strong, heavy, unpleasant smell, growing about 2 feet high. Leaves 

 and all the other parts filled with transparent dots, supradecompound, 

 alternate ; their lateral lobes linear or nearly so, the terminal ones 

 obovate ; the uppermost leaves simply pinnate. Carpels terminal, leaf- 

 less, trichotomous, cymose. Petals 4, yellow, unguiculate, concave, 

 wavy, a little irregularly toothed. Fruit roundish, warted, 4-lobed, 

 each lobe opening into 2 valves. — Once in repute as an emmenagogue, 

 antispasmodic and anthelmintic. It is still used in the form of " Rue 

 tea " in domestic medicine. It is acrid and stimulant. 



EVODIA. 



Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, equal. Stamens 4-5, smooth ; 

 filaments subulate ; anthers heart-shaped, moveable. Disk cup- 

 shaped, sinuated. Ovary single, deeply 5-lobed, with 2 col- 

 lateral ovules in each cell. Style single, very short ; stigma 

 terminal, obtuse. Cocci 2-valved, 1-seeded, with a separable 

 2-valved endocarp. 



230. E. febrifuga Aug. de St. H. plant, us. No. 4. pi. rem. 

 bres.'i. 149. _/?. bras. i. 79. DC. prodr. i. 724. Esenbeckia 

 febrifuga Mart. n. g. t. 233. — Forests of the province of Minas 

 Geraes in Brazil. 



A tree. Leaves trifoliate; leaflets lanceolate elliptical somewhat 

 acuminate. Panicle terminal, downy. Petals 5. Ovary simple, warted. 

 — Bark and young wood extremely bitter and astringent : used with 

 great success in Brazil as febrifuges. 



GALIPEA. 



Calyx short, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, longer, some- 

 what unequal, combined or converging into a pseudo-monopeta- 

 lous corolla. Filaments adhering to the tube of the corolla, 

 either 5-8, of which 2-4 are sterile, or 5 all fertile ; anthers 

 oblong, sometimes revolute after flowering. Ovaries more or 

 less united, surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped disk. Styles 

 5, either distinct or consolidated, each terminated by an obtuse 

 stigma. Capsules by abortion 1-2. 



431. G. Cusparia Aug. de St. H. in DC. prodr. i. 731.— 



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