RUTACE.S:. 



TICOREA. 



Calyx small, 5-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, funnel- 

 shaped ; tube long; limb 5-cleft, equal or unequal. Stamens 

 5-8, of which 2-6 are often sterile; filaments monadelphous, 

 united to the tube ; anthers often partly combined, somewhat 

 exserted. Disk cup-shaped, surrounding the ovary ; style 1 ; 

 stigma 5-lobed. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. 



434. T. jasminiflora Aug. de St. Hil. pi. rem. i. 141. t. 14. D. 

 — Woods of Rio Janeiro, especially near the town of Tagoahy, 

 and in the province of Minas Geraes. 



A shrub 7-8 feet high. Leaves ternate, stalked ; leaflets 1-6 inches 

 long, lanceolate, tapering to the base, acuminate, obtuse, sometimes 

 emarginate, smooth, deep-green, with pellucid dots. Panicles 3-6 

 inches long, terminal or axillary, with each branch bearing about 6 

 flowers. Calyx rather downy. Corolla white, downy, glandular, with 

 pellucid dots. — A decoction of the leaves drunk by the Brazilians as 

 a cure for frambcesia. 



435. T. febrifuga Aug. de St. H. 1. c. 142. — Province of 

 Minas Geraes. 



Very like the last from which it differs in its stem being generally 

 arborescent, its panicles contracted, its flowers not more than half the 

 size, the bracts more numerous and somewhat foliaceons, and the style 

 more protruded. — Bark intensely bitter, astringent, febrifugal. 



BAROSMA. 



Calyx 5-cleft or parted, dotted. Disk lining the bottom of 

 the calyx, generally with a short scarcely prominent rim. Petals 

 5, with short claws. Filaments 10; the 5 opposite the petals 

 sterile, petaloid, sessile, ciliated, obscurely glandular at the 

 apex ; the other 5 longer, smooth or hispid, subulate, with the 

 anthers usually furnished with a minute gland at the apex. 

 Style as long as the petals. Stigma minute, 5-lobed. Ovaries 

 auriculate at the apex, usually glandular and tuberculated. 

 Fruit composed of 5 cocci covered with glandular dots at the 

 back. 



436. B. crenulata Willd. mum. suppl. 12. Sot. Mag. 

 t. 3413. — Diosma crenulata Linn, amozn. ac. iv. 308. D. cre- 

 nata Linn. sp. pi. 287. D. serratifolia Burchell and others. 

 Bucco crenata JR. and S. v. 414. D. odorata DC. prodr. i. 714. 

 D. latifolia Lodd. JBot. cab. t. 290. — Cape of Good Hope. 



An upright shrub, between 2 and 3 feet in height, with twiggy 

 branches of a brownish purple tinge. Leaves decussate, spreading, 

 about an inch long, oval-lanceolate, on very short petioles, very obtuse, 

 delicately and minutely crenated, quite glabrous, rigid, darkish green, 

 and quite smooth above, with a few very obscure oblique nerves, beneath 

 paler, dotted with glands which are scarcely pellucid, while at every 



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