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xxviii. BUTACE^. [Melicoj)e. 



crustaceous, sliining ; albumen fleshy, embryo straigbt or sligbtly curved, with 

 oblong or ovate cotyledons. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate, 

 or (iu°species not Australian) 1-foliolate or simple. Plo\vers rather small, m 

 terminal or axillary cymes or panicles. 



Besides tlie Australian species, which are endemic, there are 2 from Nevy Zealand and a 

 few from the Pacific islands. E. Mueller proposes to unite Melicope wiih Hvodia, but the 

 double numlier of stamens is a more constant character than many others distinguishing the 

 received genera of Zantlioj:yU(B. 



Petals thin. Styles lateral. Leaflets mostly under 4 in. Panicles 

 terminal. 

 Yonng branches pubescent. Petals and filaments glabrous. Ripe 



carpels erect \. M. netirococca. 



Branches and leaves glabrous. Petals minutely pubesccut. Fila- 

 ments ciliate. Ripe carpels divaricate 2. -Jf. erythrococca. 



Petals and stamens rigid. Styles terminal. Leaflets more than 6 in. 



Panicles lateral %. M. ausi ralasica. 



The first 2 species are the nearest allied to the New Zealand 3L ternaia, Forst., the third 

 is in some respects anomalous. 



1, M. neurococca, Benth. A small tree, the young branches, petioles, 

 and peduncles pubescent with simple spreading hairs. Leaves of each pair 

 generally unequal, the larger one with a common petiole of 2 in. or more, the 

 other with a much shorter petiole; leaflets 3, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, glabrous above, sprinkled with a few hans 

 undernenth. Panicles terminal, trichotomous, corj^mbose. Sepals ?mall, or- 

 bicular, concave, ciliate. Petals about 2 lines long, glabrous, valvate or 



nearly so. PDaments glabrous, dilated to the middle. Ovary hirsute, the 

 carpels almost distinct from the base. Styles inserted below the sunnxnt. 

 Cocci distinct, nearly erect, broad, about 3 lines long, the valves coriaceous 

 and transversely wrinkled. — Evodia neurococca^ F. Muell. Fragm. i. 28, and 

 ii. 103. 



Queensland. Brishane river, TF. Hill and F. Mueller; Wide Bay and Archer's 

 Creelc, used by the natives to make their spades, Leichhardi. 



N. S. IVales. Richmond, Hastings, and Clarence rivers, Beckler. 



2. M. erythrococca, BentJi. A moderate-sized tree, quite glabrous. 

 Leaflets 3 or rarely 1 only, oblong^lanceolate, obtuse, 1^ to 3 in. long, con- 

 aceous, entire or obscurely crenulate, on a common petiole of I to IJ h^- 

 Panicles terminal or in the upper axils, loose, scarcely longer than the leaves. 

 Sepals small, triangular, slightly ciliate. Petals 1^ lines long, slightly mi- 

 bricate, valvate at the tips, minutely pubescent outside. Disk obscurely lobed. 

 Pilaraents dilated* and ciliate to above the middle. Ovary sliglitly hirsute, 

 the carpels almost disrinct. Styles inserted above the middle. Cocci 4 (or 

 very rarely 5), verj^ spreading, ovate, about 2 lines long, wrinkled, of a red- 

 dish Qolom,— Evodia erythrococca, P. MuclL Pragm. i. 28. 



Queensland, ^Ylde Bay, C. Moore; Moreton Bay and Brisbane river, }F. Hilh F- 



Mueller. 



all 



K. S. IVales. Clarence river, Beckler, C. Moore. 



3. M. australasica, F, Muell. Herb. A liandsome tree, glabrous in 

 its parts. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, tlie common petiole several times 

 shorter than the leaflets ; leaflets oblong-elliptical, or rarely obovate-oblong. 



