60 RUTACEAE, [ Pelea. 
72. O. Martiana, Zuccar. in Monogr. Amer. Oxal. p. 20. — Stemless, 
with a compound bulbous rhizome which is covered with brown 3-ribbed 
scales. Leaves radical, slightly hairy, the petioles 4—6”. Leaflets 3, 
broadly obovate, emarginate, 8—10” long. Peduncles radical, longer 
than the petioles, bearing one or several umbels of flowers on branches 
of different lengths. Sepals obtuse, with 2 small glands at the tip, 
2—21/2". Petals 3 or 4 times as long, purplish or red, with green veins. 
Stamens hairy, the longer ones exceeding the hairy styles. — Bot. Mag. 
tab. 3938. — Benth. FI. pe GG; 
Of more recent importation, but already found in woods and pastures. <A native of 
Brazil, 
Orper XIX, a. RUTACEAE. 
Flowers usually regular. Sepals and petals 4—5, rarely 3 or 2, im- 
bricate or valvate, the former usually small and often united at the 
ase. Stamens as many or twice as many, free, or rarely united at the 
base, inserted with the petals round a hypogynous or slightly perigynous 
disk; anthers 2-celled. Carpels 1—5, sessile or on a raised torus or 
0. 
nerally separating from the inner, which is chartaceous, 
Seeds smooth, with or without albumen. Cotyledons flat or crumpled. — 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves without stipules, entire or com- 
pound, generally marked with glandular dots. 
A large Ord perate zones, represented in Polynesia by the 
genera Evodia; Acronychia, Melicope and the following : 
Leaves simple, opposite or whorled: 
ta: 
Stamens free, petals valvate . : 5 3 ‘ ; ‘ 1. Pelea. 
Stamens united; petals imbricate . : : : 3 5 : 2. Platydesma. 
es compound alternate; flowers unisexual f : : ; 3. Zanthozylum. 
1. PELEA, GRAY. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals 4, imbricate. Petals 4, valyate. Stamens 8, 
not exserted, those opposite the petals shorter than the alternate ones; 
filaments flattened; anthers short ovoid or sagittate, introrse. Hypogynous 
disk slightly 8lobed. Ovary 4-celled, 4-lobed, with a single terminal 4-lobed 
style. Ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, hemitropous, one ascending. Cap- 
sule ngular, subentire or more or less deeply 4-parted or 4-coccous, 
its cells or cocci divaricate, loculicidal. Seeds crustaceous with a black 
in: partly adnate to a short and broad funis. Embryo straight 
shining 
in a fleshy albumen, with a short radicle and broadly ovate complanate 
