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Rutacecr. {Limoma. 



berry nearly globular, under i in., smooth, gland-dotted, pale 

 salmon- or cream-coloured, pulp abundant ; seed solitary, 

 green. 



Low country, principally in the dry region ; rather common ; abundant 

 at Anuradhapura. Fl. Jan.-March ; greenish-white. 



Also in Southern India. 



Leaves faintly aromatic. Fruit edible. The larger shining leaflets 

 and strictly terminal paniculate inflorescence with smaller flowers dis- 

 tinguish this from Microiucliiin 'pitbcsccns, which it a good deal resembles. 



2. C. Willdenovii, W. iwd A. Prod. 96 (1834). W6da-pana, .V. 



Thw. Enum. 47. C. P. 1204. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 506. Wight, Ic. t. 14. 



A small, slender tree or shrub, young parts puberulous ; 

 1. 6-12 in., imparipinnate, rachis puberulous, Iflts. 7-15, dis- 

 tant, shortly stalked, very oblique at base, lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, finely crenate, very thin, conspicuously 

 gland-dotted and finely reticulated, glabrous ; fl. small, on 

 rather long divaricate ped., arranged in slender, simple racemes 

 from the axils of the young 1. and shorter than them ; sep. 4, 

 broad-ovate, apiculate, glabrous ; pet. 4, oval, concave, gland- 

 dotted ; stam. 8, fil. long, dilated at base ; ov. on a short, 

 narrow gynophore, cylindrical, 4-grooved, glandular, 4-celled, 

 st)-le stout ; bcrrj- ovoid, smooth, greenish-white, 1-2-seeded. 



Var. /i pubescens, W. and A. (sp.). C. P. 2546. 



Lflts. larger, 2^-3 in., with the rachis densely woolly- 

 tomentose. 



Dry country ; rather rare. Jaffna (Gardner) ; Porativa Pattu, E. 

 Prov. (Nevill) ; near Sigiri ; var. /3. in Maturata at about 3000 ft. Fl. 

 June-Sept.; white. 



The scent of the leaves is peculiar, like myrrh and aniseed com- 

 bined. 



Mr. Nevill says this is called by Sinhalese and Veddas in E. Prov. 

 ' Etkara-bembiya.' 



9. IiIMONIA, L. {Aiict.) 



Small trees, usually with spines ; 1. compound, petiole 

 winged ; fl. in panicles or racemes ; cal. 4-5-fid. ; pet. 4-5, 

 imbricate ; stam. 8-10, fil. subulate ; ov. 4-5-cellcd, without a 

 gynophore, with I or 2 pendulous o\'ules in each cell ; fruit 

 a globose berry, 1-4-celled and seeded. — Sp. 4; all in 

 FL B. Ind. 



L. trifoliolate ; fr. large, i in i. L. .\i,.\TA. 



L. pinnate ; fr. small, under i in 2. L. CRKNULAlA. 



