490 xxxin. RUTACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [L'< 



*** Leaves pinnate. 



8. E. fraxinifolia, Hool-.f. ; leaves quite glabrous throughout, leaflets 

 3-5-pairs, cymes broad brachiate pubescent, branches stout, flowers 

 4-5-merous, fruit glabrous. Tetradium trichotomum, Lour. Fl. < '<>,//. <.l ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 88. Khus fraxinifolium, Don Prodr. -248. Philagonia fraxini- 

 folia, Hook. Ic. PL t. 710 ; Wall. Cat. 8521 ? P. sambucma, BlumeBijd. -2:>u. 

 P. procera, DC. Prodr. ii. 90. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA from Xij.al to Sikkira, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; KIIASI.V Mrs., alt. 

 3-5000 ft. DisTRiu. Java? Cochinchina. 



A small much branched densely leafy tree, smelling strongly of Caraway when 

 braised, Branchiate thick, terete. Leave* 8-12 in., spreading, bright green; petiole 

 cylindric; leaflets 4-9 in., shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 Straight or falcate, qnite entire or crenulate, base rounded often oblique, nerves spread- 

 ing, slender, terminal leaflet often lng-pe'io|. d. Qy*M on ^Ih.rt stout compressed pe- 

 duncles, axillary and terminal, clothed with fine close-set pubese mce : hvacts minute. 

 /'/o/n T-.S- slu.rtly pedicelled, white, 6 nearly i in. diam. .sVy*//* small, obtuse. 

 imbricate, pubescent within. Mann-nx e\er>eding the petals, tilanients somewhat hairy: 

 anthers broad. Ovary glabrous; style short, stigma capitate. /'///// ,', in. diam., red ; 

 carpels not separating to the base, very coriaceous. ^>,d b'-oadly elliptic, slightlv 

 COmprePSed; testa dark brown, shining. I can hardly doubt this being the PhUagonia 

 xainl, iir'uin nf I'lmne (P. proaru. !)('.. published in the same year); but having seen no 

 .lava specimen I retain the name of fni.nnli<>]'nt. It is the piant alluded to under 

 Evodia in the " dem ra I'lantarum'' as E. li.,-lnr<jl'un\a. 



9. E. meliaefolia, Btttfh. Fl. Il<i<ik. f>s ; j)eti<>los pilose, leaflets 

 )' ." pairs glal >rous, cymes broad brachiate pilose-pubeacent, nratidics 

 very slender, fl(\v t -rs i ."i-nu-rnus. E glauca, .I//-/. Ann. M H*. ]>>>. iii. -".. 

 BoymiaglablifollA, ('/until*. /// llnk. l\< w Journ. lll. iii. 330. 

 meliaefolia, 7A/// t v- /,/ \V 



lia, 7A/// t v- /,/ \Vu/ r . Ann. ii. 



AflBAV, Mustn't (in Jlcrh. It, '(tilth). 



A much more slender plant than E. fraxinifolia, with spreading soft hairs on the 

 rachis of the leaf ami on the mure slen ier partial petioles, very slender spreading 

 tranches of the cyme, whieh is S im-hes broad, fewer sparser flowers, the 4 \ in. diam., 

 shorter more slender filaments, and more oblong anthers. The leaflets are 3-4 in., 

 more oblique at the ba.se, and usually more acuminate. 



10. E. ruteecarpa, Jlnnk.f.d- Tltmnx. ///>. J nd. Or.; clothed through- 

 out with soft velvety pubescence, cymes brachiate, branches very stout, 

 fruit pustular. Boyiuia rutajcarpa, J n*s. <iccordu/<f to tiieh. & Zucc. FL 

 J<i]ni. i. 50, t. 21. 



Inner valleys of the Temperate region of the SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft., 

 /. I). H. DISTHIH. Japan. 



A small densely-fonaged green tree, inodorous. Leavet 1-1^ ft.; petiole ; 

 stout ; leaflets about 5 pair, subsessilc, oblong-acute, usually rounded and oblique at the 

 base, margin quite entire, under surface woolly, nerves faint. Cymes 3-4 in. diam., 

 terminal ; peduncles very short stout and as well as the pedicels and calyx tomentose. 

 J-'/oii-i / about .', in diam. Petal* nearly glabrous externally, pubescent within. Ma/im)* 

 not much exceeding the petals, filaments hairy ; anthers very large, ovate, 2-lobed at 

 the base. Fruit 4 in diam. ; carpels 4, opening at the apex. 



6. TETRACTO1KXA, Hook. f. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, 1-foliolate, coriaceous, quite 

 entire, punctate. Flowers small, in axillary branched cymes. Calyx 

 small, 4-partite. Petals 4, triangular-ovate, acute, persistent, valvate. 



