Evodia.] rutace^e. 59 



Carpels 4, when ripe about 2 lines broad. — Boymia glabrifolia, Champ, in 

 Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 330. Megabotrya melicefolia, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 

 259. 



Scarce in Hongkong, but abundant on the adjacent coast of China, Champion and others. 

 I have only seen male specimens in flower, and females in fruit. In the former as in the 

 male flowers of the allied E. fraxinifolia (Philagonia, Hook.) and E. rzitcecarpa {Boymia, 

 Juss.), the ovaries are abortive, linear, ending in subulate styles. In the females of the two 

 latter species the ovaries terminate in a broad peltate stigma, as is probably the case also in 

 our species. Dr. Hooker has ascertained that all these plants are congeners of Evodia, Forst. 



2. E. Lamar ckiana, Benth. A tree, glabrous in all its parts and un- 

 armed. Leaves opposite, petiole 1 to 1£ in. long. Leaflets 3, digitate, ob- 

 long, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, very gradually tapering at the base into short 

 petiolules. Panicles axillary, oblong, with opposite spreading branches, scarcely 

 exceeding the petioles. Flowers small, on very short pedicels. Petals 4 or 

 rarely 3, almost valvate, seldom f- line long. Stamens glabrous, twice as long. 

 Carpels usually 4, when ripe 2 to 2-| lines broad. — Fagara triphylla, Lam. 

 Diet. i. 447. Xanthoxylum triphyllum, Wight, Ic. t. 204. X. Lamarckianum, 

 Cham, and Schlecht. in Linnsea, v. 88. X. pteleafolium, Champ, in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. iii. 330. Lepta triphylla, Lour. PL Cochinch. 82. 



Frequent in the island, Champion and others. Also on the continent of S. China, in 

 Khasia, in the Indian Peninsula, and Ceylon. The E. Boxburghiana, common in the Archi- 

 pelago, and extending from Ceylon to the Philippines, but not yet found in Hongkong, is 

 very nearly allied, but has much larger and broader panicles, larger flowers, and the ripe 

 carpels are said to be the size of a field bean. 



3. TODDALIA, Juss. 



Flowers of Xanthoxylum, except that the carpels are united in a single 5- 

 celled nearly globular ovary, with a broad sessile peltate stigma. Fruit a 

 globular indehiscent berry. — Shrubs with alternate digitately-compound 

 leaves. 



A genus of very few species, dispersed over tropical Asia or Africa. 



1. T. aculeata, Pers. ; W. and Am. Prod. i. 149 ; Wight, Illustr. £.66. 

 A shrub, with weak or flexuose branches and quite glabrous, usually bearing 

 rather numerous small recurved prickles on the branches and petioles, but oc- 

 casionally unarmed or nearly so. Leaflets 3, digitate, oblong or oval-oblong, 

 1^ to 3 in. long, acuminate, with a narrow obtuse point, tapering at the base 

 into a short petiolule, the common petiole about 1 in. long. Flowers small, 

 in axillary or terminal panicles, shorter or but little longer than the petioles. 

 Pedicels solitary in the female specimens, fascicled or umbellate in the males. 

 Petals about 1 line long. Stamens longer. Fruit the size of a large pea. — 

 T. floribunda, Wall. : see Thw. Enum. PI. Ceyl. 69. 



Rather scarce in Hongkong, Champion ; also Hance and Wright. Very widely spread 

 over India and the Archipelago. 



4. CYMINOSMA, Geertn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals small. Petals 4, narrow, scarcely imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 8. Ovary raised on a short thick torus, entire, 4-celled, with 

 a single subulate style, and 2 ovules in each cell, one above the other. Fruit 



