20 RUTACE^ 



Impaticns tangachce Bedd.] F.B.I, i 467, VIII 82. 

 Stem 6 to 15 inches, usually unbranched. Leaves 

 crowded towards the top, oblanceolate, finely-serrate. 

 Flowers in racemes, the lower flowerless part of the 

 peduncle longer than the leaves; bracts 5^ inch ; 

 pedicels I inch. Flowers rose-pink ; standard helmet- 

 shaped; terminal lobe of wing with broadly truncate, 

 erose tip ; lateral lobe Y^ inch long ; spur I inch, nearly 

 straight. Bedd. Ic. t. 147. 



Pulneys : in streams at 5,000 feet, etc. Fyson 501. 

 Bourne 2831. 



Gen. Dist. Anamalais, above 4,000 feet, Bolampatti hills. 



RUTACE^. 



See Vol. I p. 71. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



\ Leaf simple, flowers in long-peduncled cyme, stamens 8. b 

 I Leaves opposite, leaflets 3; a small tree (Vol. I p. 73, t. 

 J 301). Evodia lunur-ankenda Merr, Formerly known 

 ^ j as E. Roxburghiana Benth. 

 \ Leaver alternate, leaflets 3 or more; erect or climbing 



[ shrubs c 



f Leaves opposite; peduncles decurved ; flowers few . . . 



, J MELICOPE, 



'1 Leaves alternate, peduncles erect, flowers many . . • . 



[ ACRONYCHIA. 



{Petals I inch, sweet scented ; unarmed shrubs, . murraya 

 Flowers {4 '"^^ ; P^'^^^y ^^''^'^^ ^"*^ ^•'"''^^^^^ . . . d 

 r Leaflets 3 to 5, carpels in fruit dry with one black seed, 

 ,J wood yellow (Vol. I p. 75) .... xanthoxylum. 

 j Leaflets 3 only, often climbers with warty stems, fruit 

 [ a small yellow berry todiulia 



MELICOPE. F.B.L 33 viL 



Shrubs with opposite I to 3-fo!iate leaves, and the 

 parts of the flower in fours (eight stamens). Fruit of 

 four parts which open on the inner side. 



Species about 20, chiefly in Polynesia. 



