RtJTACEv^. ;i 



vaulted, with a rose pink ridge down the middle of the 

 back. t. 56. 



A very striking plant, its bright sciriet flowers showing up 

 against the dark green foliage. There are in these levels no 

 other Balsams at all like it in colour. 



In woods, quite common on the Pulneys, flowering from June 

 but most by September to October. Bourne 80, 81, 2830. 



Gen. Dist, Western Ghats, Pulaey and Tinnevelly hills, above 6,000 

 feet. 



RUTACE/E. 



A family easily recognised by the very numerous 

 small oil glands in the (usually pinnately) compound 

 leaf, which show against the light as translucent dots. 

 (In a few genera, as the Orange, one leaflet only is 

 developed.) Flowers quite regular, with all the parts in 

 fives or fours ; calyx always very small ; anthers opening 

 inwards; and inside the stamens a prominent honey- 

 secreting disc. 



A fairly large family of 650 species, confined almost exclu- 

 sively to the warmer parts of the world, more especially South 

 Africa and Australia. In Europe it is hardly represented at all, 

 the common Rue, Ruta graveolens L. a native of the Mediter- 

 ranean being almost the only species found. 



RUTA or RUDA was the Anglo-Saxon name for that plant, and appears to 

 be avery old word, for we find different forms of it in Greek, Latin, Hindoo- 

 stani and Slavonic. 



Tree : leaves opposite, of three leaflets ; not prickly, evodia. 

 Climbers : — 



Leaves alternate, of five leaflets ; very prickly ; wood yellow. 



XANTHOXYLUM. 



Leaflets three ; older parts of the stem an inch or more thick 

 and with large pyramidal corky warts . . . toddalia. 



TODDALIA. F.B.L 33 IX. 



Climbing or straggling woody plants, armed with 

 prickles. Leaves sessile, or three leaflets. Flowers 



