pistil, which is attenuated towards the apex. Stigma 4-furrowed 

 not thicker than the style. Capsules 4, partly united, dehiscing 

 internally at the apex. Seeds dotted. Perennial or suffrute- 

 scent herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnated, 

 or decompound, with pellucid dots. Flowers yellow or rarely 

 white, disposed in terminal corymbs or racemes : the number of 

 parts occasionally augmented by a fourth. 



429. R. graveolens Linn, sp.pl. 548. DC. prodr. i. 710. 

 Duh. arb. ii. t. 61. S. and C. ii. t. 71. Common in sterile waste 

 places in many parts of the South of Europe. (Common Rue.) 



A glaucous, hairless, erect, herbaceous or half-shrubby plant, with a 

 strong, heavy, unpleasant smell, growing about 2 feet high. Leaves 

 and all the other parts filled with transparent dots, supradecompound, 

 alternate ; their lateral lobes linear or nearly so, the terminal ones 

 obovate ; the uppermost leaves simply pinnate. Carpels terminal, leaf- 

 less, trichotomous, cymose. Petals 4, yellow, unguiculate, concave, 

 wavy, a little irregularly toothed. Fruit roundish, warted, 4-lobed, 

 each lobe opening into 2 valves. Once in repute as an emmenagogue, 

 antispasmodic and anthelmintic. It is still used in the form of " Rue 

 tea " in domestic medicine. It is acrid and stimulant. 



EVODIA. 



Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, equal. Stamens 4-5, smooth ; 

 filaments subulate ; anthers heart-shaped, moveable. Disk cup- 

 shaped, sinuated. Ovary single, deeply 5-lobed, with 2 col- 

 lateral ovules in each cell. Style single, very short ; stigma 

 terminal, obtuse. Cocci 2-valved, 1 -seeded, with a separable 

 2-valved endocarp. 



230. E. febrifuga Aug. de St. H. plant, us. No. 4. pi rem. 

 bres. i. 149. fl. bras. i. 79. DC. prodr. \. 724. Esenbeckia 

 febrifuga Mart. n. g. t. 233. Forests of the province of Minas 

 Geraes in Brazil. 



A tree. Leaves trifoliate ; leaflets lanceolate elliptical somewhat 

 acuminate. Panicle terminal, downy. Petals 5. Ovary simple, warted. 

 Bark and young wood extremely bitter and astringent : used with 

 great success in Brazil as febrifuges. 



GALIPEA. 



Calyx short, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, longer, some- 

 what unequal, combined or converging into a pseudo-monopeta- 

 lous corolla. Filaments adhering to the tube of the corolla, 

 either 5-8, of which 2-4 are sterile, or 5 all fertile ; anthers 

 oblong, sometimes revolute after flowering. Ovaries more or 

 less united, surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped disk. Styles 

 5, either distinct or consolidated, each terminated by an obtuse 

 stigma. Capsules by abortion 1-2. 



431. G. Cusparia Aug. de St. H. in DC. prodr. i. 731. 



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