/ 



Melicope,'] xxviii. kutace.e. 361 



obtuse or shortly acuminate, 6 to 10 in. long, somewhat coriaceous, entire. 

 Panicles axillary, trichotomous, loose and many-flowered, but much shorter 

 than the leaves. Pedicels short. Sepals ovate. Petals nan^ow, about 4 lines 

 long, of a firm consistence, reflexed above the middle, minutely pubescent 

 outside ; aestivation not seen. Filaments slightly dilated, ciliate and rigid, 

 especially the larger ones, subulate upwards; anthers small. Disk incon- 

 spicuous. Carpels nearly glabrous, but tapering into strictly terminal short 

 pubescent st3'les united at the summit. Cocci erect, distinct, angular ; acu- 

 minate, not 2 lines long. Seeds shining. — Evodia odandra^ F. Muell. Fragm. 

 ii. 102. 



N. S. ^Vales. Clarence river, Beckler. 



18. EVODIA, Forst. 



Flowers more or less unisexuah Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, 

 Talvate or very slightly imbricate. Disk sinuate. Stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments 

 subulater or slightly dilated. Ovary of 4 or 5 cai-pels, usually distinct and 

 style-like in the male flowers, more or less united in the females, styles at- 

 tached below the middle, more or less united with a 4- or 5-lobed stigma. 

 Ovules 2 in each carpel, collateral or superposed. Fruit separating more or 

 less completely into coriaceous 2-valved cocci, the endocarp separating elas- 

 tically. Seeds with a crustaceous testa, usually smooth and shining; albumen 

 Heshy ; embry^o straight with ovate cotyledons. — Unarmed trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite, usually digitately 3-foliolate or pinnate, rarely 1-foliolate or 

 simple ; leaflets entire, often large. Cymes or panicles axillary or rarely ter- 

 minal. Flowers small. 



A consiJcraLle genus, spread over tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacific and of the 

 Madagascar group ; the only Australian one is endemic. The genus differs from Melicope 

 chiefly in the stamens equal to, not double, the number of petals, from Zanllioxyluvi hj the 

 leaves all or mostly opposite, generally by the more valvate petals and more united styles, 

 oesidea minor characters offerinp^ occasional exceptions. 



1- E. micrococca. 2^. Muell 



A tree ofleu 

 ite with long 



^i i>onsiaerable size, quite o;labrons- Leaves digitateiy d-ioiio 

 petioles; leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse, mostly 1^ to 3 in. long, entire, nar- 

 ^owcd at the base, the central one almost petiolulate. Flowers in dense cymes 

 oj" trichotomous panicles on short lateral peduncles below the young shoots, 

 pepals 4, orbicular, small. Petals 4, about 3 lines long, glabrous, slightly 

 imbricate, with inflexed valvate tips. Filaments slightly dilated, ciliate, the 

 atteimate tips folded inwards in the bud, exserted in the open flower. Cocci 

 iiot 2 lines long, not separating so completely as in the Mdicopes, rugose- 

 glandular outside. Seeds black and shining. 



Qneensland. Moreton Bay. W. mil. ., 



«- S. XValea. Neai- llichmond, K Brown \ Bltie Mountains, M.^s Atkinson ; north- 

 ^vardto Clarence and HasthiRs rivers, BecMer ; aud Tentertield, C Siuari • southward to 



19. MEDICOSMA, Hook. f. 



Sepals 4, broad, imbricate. Petals 4, broad, much imbricate in the bud, 

 tne tips erect or recurved. Disk lobed. Stamens 8, filaments dilated, almost 



