Peganum.} xxxm. RUTACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 487 



Leaves 2-3 in., green, pinnatifidly cut into linear very narrow acute spreading lobes. 

 Flowers -f in. diam., solitary in the axils of the branches, sessile or peclicelled. 

 Calyx-lobes very narrow, much exceeding the corolla, persistent. Capsule globose, 

 in. diam., and less. 



4. DICTATONUS, Linn. 



A strong-smelling herb, shrubby below, clothed with pustular glands. 

 Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate ; leaflets opposite, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrulate. Flowers large, white or rose-qoloured, in terminal 

 racemes, pedicels bracteate. Calyx 5-partite, deciduous. Petals 5, 4 upper 

 in pairs ascending, lower declinate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of a 

 thick annular disk, filaments long slender somewhat thickened and very 

 glandular below the slender tip ; anthers subglobose. Ovary shortly 

 stipitate, deeply 5 lobed, 5-celled, hispid ; style filiform, declinate, stigma 

 terminal ; ovules 3-4 in each cell, inserted on the ventral suture. Fruit of 

 5 compressed broad truncate long-beaked elastically 2-valved 2-3-seeded 

 hispid carpels; endocarp horny, separable. Seeds subglobose, testa thin 

 black shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons thick, radicle short. 



1. J>. albus, Linn. D. Fraxinella, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. i. 712 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 920. D. himalayanus, Royle III. 156, t. 29. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Kunawur (and according to 

 Royle, Junnotie in Garwhal), alt. 6-8000 ft. DISTRIB. Japan, Siberia, Dahuria, and 

 westward to France and Spain. 



Stem stout but not woody, branched. Leaves 1 ft. and upwards ; petiole very stout, 

 angular, margined; leaflets 2-3 in., sessile, dark green, base wedge-shaped, nerves 

 slender. Hacemes \ ft. and upwards, stout, strict, erect. Flowers 1| in. long, erect ; 

 pedicels 1-3 in., glandular, bracteate at the base and bracteolate usually above the 

 middle. Sepals small, lanceolate. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, glandular on the back. 

 Stamens equalling the petals. Capsule 1 in. diam. 



5. EVODIA, Forst. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves opposite, simple or 1-3-foliolate or 

 imparipinnate, quite entire. ' Flowers small, in panicled axillary cymes, 

 unisexual. Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Petals 4-5, sessile, valvate or slightly 

 imbricate. Stamens 4-5, inserted at the base of the disk, filaments subulate ; 

 anthers oblong. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled ; style basilar, stigma 

 4-lobed, ovules 2 in each cell, collateral or superposed. Fruit of 4 coriaceous 

 3-valved 1-seeded cocci, endocarp horny elastically separable 2-lobed. 

 Seeds oblong, testa bony or crustaceous shining, hilum linear, albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo straight, cotyledons ovate. DISTRIB. About 22 species, 

 natives of tropical Asia, the Pacific, the E. African Islands, and Australia. 



* Leaves 3-foliolate. 



1. E. Hoxburg-hiana, Benth. FL Hongh 59 ; leaves quite glabrous 

 throughout, cymes very broad bracteate finely pubescent, flowers densely 

 crowded, filaments glabrous, ovary densely pubescent. E. triphylla, Bedd. 

 Flor. Sylvat ; Anal. Gen. xli. t. vi. f. 2. E. Marambong, Miqud Ann. Jli>*. 

 Bot. iii. 244. * Fagara triphylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 416 (? of Linn.}. 

 F. Lunur-ankenda, Ga-rtn. Carp. i. 334, t. 68, f. 9. Xanthoxylon triphyllum, 

 Wight Ic. t. 204; III. i. 169; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 36; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Flor. 45. X. Roxburghianum, Cham, in Linncea v. 58. X. zey- 

 lanicum, DC- Prodr. i, 728. X. nilagiricum, Miquel Herb. Hohenack. 



