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368 XXVITI. RUTACE/E. \_Glffcosmis. 



times 4-celled. contracted into a very short, thick style. Berry globular, i in. 



in diameter, or smaller, 



Queensland, Northumberland islands, R, Brown; islands of Torres Straits, F. 



Mueller ; scrali near Eockhampton, Tliozet, 



The species has a very wide range in tropical Asia and is very variable in the size of the 

 leaves and flowers, full details of which and of the consequently extended synonymy of the 

 species will be found in Oliver's paper above quoted. The character given above has spe- 

 cial reference to the Australian variety, which is almost identical with the Chinese and 

 Eastern form, usually distinguished as ff. citrifolia, Lindl. ; Benth. in 11. Hongk. 51, and 

 figured as Lhnonia parvifolia^ Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2416. 



25. MICROMELUM, Blume, - 



Calyx 5 -toothed or entire. Petals 5, valvate in the hud, or nearly so. 

 Stamens 10; filaments linear-suhulate. Ovary 2- to 6- usually 5-celled, the 

 dissepiments spirally twisted after the flowering ; style deciduous with a small 

 capitate stigma; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a dry berry. 

 Seeds usually 1 or 2 ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; cotyledons leafy, 

 very much folded. — ^Unarmed trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate, with alternate 

 oblique leaflets. Flowers small, in terminal corj^mbose panicles. 



Besides the Australian species, which is widely dispersed over tropical Asia and the 

 Eastern Archipelago, only 2 are known from Penang or the Philippine Islands. 



1. M. pubescens, BUme; OUv, in Journ. TAnn, Soc. v. Sffppl 40. 

 Young branches and leaves more or less pubescent. Leaflets 9 to 15, or 

 sometimes more, from ovate to broadly lanceolate, 1 to 3 in. long, obtuse or 

 shortly acuminate, oblique at the ba-se, often becoming glabrous above, pu- 

 bescent underneath. Corj-mbs nearly sessile above the last leaves, many- 

 flowered. Calyx more or less 5-toothed. Petals about 2 lines long, more or 

 less pubescent. Ovary usually hairy. lierry small, ovoid, glabrous or pu- 

 bescent. 



. Anstralia. S. Gonlburn Island and Port Essington, A. Cimningham ; islands of 

 the Gulf of Carpentaria, iJ. Brown. 



Queensland. Alhauy and Cairncross Islands and from the Burdekin to Moreton Bay, 

 R Mueller; Cape Upstart and Barnard Isles, 31' Gil livr ay ; Wide Bdij, Bldwill ; Eock- 

 hampton, Thozet. * 



The various forms assumed by this species and the consequent synonymy are given in de- 

 tail by Oliver in the above-quoted paper. The Australian specimens belong to the small- 

 flowered variety, with rather broad leaflets, common in the S. Pacific islands, which I for- 

 merly described as M. glahrescem, in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 212. 



26. MURRAYA, Limi. 



Calyx 5-cleft. PetaU 5, narrow, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 10, free ; 

 filaments subulate; anthers small. Ovaiy 2- to 5.celled. Style elongated, 

 at length deciduous, stigma capitate. Ovules solitary, or 2 in each cell, 

 superposed, or nearly collateral. Berry 1- or 2-seeded. Testa glabrous or 

 woolly; albumen none; cotyledons equal, nt)t folded.— Unarmed trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets alternate, usually oblique at the base. 

 Flowers often rather large, in teminal corymbs, or few together in the upper 



axils, 



Tlie genus comprises few species, dispersed over tropical Asia and the Eastern Archipelago ; 

 neither of the Australian ones are endemic. 



