308 xxxiif. RUTACEiE (oliver). \_Clau8ena, 



shorter than the leaves. Pedicels 1-2 lines. Berry 1 -seeded, the size of a 

 pea. 



Upper Gruinea. Cape Coast, T. Fogel! Camaroons mountaiu, Mann! (7000 ft.) 



A very variable plant as to foliage. It is common at the Cape. 



2. C. anisata, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v., Suppl. 34. An under- 

 shrub of 3-7 ft. Leaves |-1 ft. ; leaflets 10-20, ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 often acuminate obtuse or subacute, crenulate, more or less pubescent at 

 first. Plowers in axillary panicles of 4-10 in.; lateral peduncles spreading 

 or ascending, bearing several- or many-flowered cymes. Pedicels 1-3 lines. 

 Berry 1 -seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Abbeokuta, Irving ! Niger, Barter ! Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



The Glycosmist africana of Fl. Nigrit. 256, is represented by a specimen too imperfect 

 for description or determination, gathered in St. Thomas by Don. 



Ordee XXXIV. SIMARUBEJE (by Prof. Oliver). 



Plowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx 3-5 -fid or -partite, 

 or sepals free. Petals as many. Stamens as many as petals or twice or 

 thrice as many. Pilaments free, naked, pilose or with an adnate scale. An- 

 thers rotundate to linear. Ovary deeply 3-5-lobed, or carpels distinct, or 

 ovary entire 2-5-celled, usually inserted upon a thickened fleshy disk. 

 Styles free or connate or simple and terminal in the undivided ovaries. 

 Ovules solitary or geminate. Pruit various, dry or drupaceous. Seeds with 

 or without albumen ; embryo straight or curved. — Shi'ubs or trees, usually 

 characterized by a bitter principle. Leaves alternate, pinnate, 2-foliolate or 

 simple, rarely stipulate. Inflorescence various, axillary or terminal. Flowers 

 usually rather small. 



A considerable Natural Order, chiefly tropical or subtropical, represented both in the Old 

 and New World. Four of the nine African genera are peculiar to this continent. 



Ovary deeply lobed or carpels distinct i^Simaruheci). 

 Leaves pinnate. 

 Flowers unisexual. 



Stamens twice as many as petals. Calyx closed at first ... 1.. Hannoa. 



Stameu|,as many as petals. Calyx 4-8-partite 2. Brucea. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. 



Stamens as many as petals 3. Kirkia. 



Stamens twice as many as petals. 



Petals subvalvate. Style short 4. Harrisonia. 



Petals broadly imbricate, linear. Style elongate 5. Quassia. 



Stamens three times as many as petals 6. Mannia. 



Leaves simple. Carpels 5, free 7. Sueiana. 



Ovary entire {PicramniecB) . 



Leaves simple. Ovary 2-celled 8. Irvingia. 



Leaves 2-foliolate. Ovary 5-celled 9. Balanites. 



1. HANNOA, Planch. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 308. 

 Flowers unisexual. Male fl. : Calyx at first closed, opening in 2 or more 



