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Murraya. 



Murray a. A genus of Aitrcuitiacece, native of India, Java, 

 China, &c., consisting of trees or shrubs, without spines, having 

 pinnate leaves, and a terminal many-flowered cymose inflorescence. 

 The flowers have a 5-cleft calyx, oblong petals, ten free stamens, 

 and one or two ovules. The fruit is succulent. 



M. Exotica (Bot. Eeg., t. 434 ; Lam. 111., t. 352. Syn. Chalcas 

 Jai^oneiisis, Lour. Coch., p. 271. Marsana huxifolia, Sonnerat, 

 Voyages aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, t. 139. Eumph. 

 Amb., v., p. 29, t. 18, f. 2). The " Chinese Box Tree." This 

 species appears to be a great favorite with the Chinese, whence it is 

 known among the French in the Isle of France by the name of 

 " Buis de Chine." It is known to have been brought many years 

 ago from China to the Coast of Coromandel, where it has continued 

 to be universally cultivated in the gardens ever since. It has like- 

 wise been found, not unfrequently, in the wild state among the 

 mountains of the Northern Circars. In the East Indies, according 

 to Eoxburgh, this species, when in the wild state, is generally seen 

 in the state of a large bushy shrub, sometimes as a small tree of 10 

 feet in height with a pale cinereous bark. Leaves scattered, pin- 

 nate with an odd one; leaflets generally in 3 pairs, alternate, 

 obovate-oblong, emarginate, smooth, of a deep shining green, 1\- 

 2 inches long, about 1 broad, lowermost smallest ; petioles 

 glandular, round. Corymbs terminal, crowded, with rather large, 

 beautifully and purely white, exquisitely fragrant flowers. Calyx 

 1-leaved, 5-cleft, glandular, segments erect, pointed ; anthers 

 oblong ; germen glandular, 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell 

 vertically attached to the uppermost part of the partition. Berry 

 superior, 2-celled, seeds solitary, 1-2, oblong, pointed above, flat on 

 one side, woolly ; embryo inverted, album. enless. The fruit is 

 about the size of a largish pea, has a leathery rind, beset wdth 

 small miliary glands like that of an orange. This species is 

 cultivated in England as a stove-plant on account of the fine frag- 

 rance of its opaque, snow-white blossoms and their pleasing 

 contrast to the deep green of the foliage. 



M. Paniculata. (Hooker's Exotic Flora, t. 79. Jack, Malayan, 

 Miscellany, i., Xo. 2, p. 31. Syn. Chalcas jJoiicidata, Lour. Coch. 



