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RUTACE^. XXVIII. PILOCARPUS. XXIX. HORTIA. XXX. CHOISYA. XXXI. SPIRANTHERA. 



petals, and longer ; filaments awl-shaped, reflexed. Anthers 

 roundish. Ovaries 5, minute, connected, smooth. Styles 5, 

 rising from beneath the top of the ovaries, connected at the top 

 into a 5-lobed broader stigma. Fruit of 5 small 1 -seeded car- 

 pels, immersed in the base of the gynophore, and has the ap- 

 pearance of a single ovary ; but there are sometimes fewer than 

 5 from abortion. Albumen wanting. Cotyledons thick, with a 

 short radicle Shrubs of humble growth, with alternate or oppo- 

 site, simple, bi or trifoliate leaves. Racemes terminal, or at last 

 lateral ; pedicels spreading, furnished with bracteas. Flowers 

 greenish or purplish, full of glandular dots. Petals valvate in 

 the bud. 



1 P. RACEMOSA (Vahl. eclog. 1. p. 29. t. 10.) smooth ; leaves 

 crowded, elliptical, rounded at the apex ; flowers disposed in a 

 terminal raceme. T; . S. Native of the island of Montserrat, 

 on the mountains. Plum. ed. Burm. p. 119. t. 127. Branches 

 pendulous. Flowers greenish. 



.Racemose-flowered Pilocarpus. Shrub 6 feet. 



2 P. SPICA TA (St. Hil. in bull, philom. 1823. p. 131. pi. rem. 

 bras. p. 146. t. 16.) smooth ; leaves oblong -lanceolate, or ellip- 

 tical-lanceolate, bluntly acuminated ; flowers spiked, somewhat 

 approximate, on very short pedicels. 1? . S. Native of Brazil, 

 at Cabo Frio in woods. P. parvifldrus, Nees et Mart, in nov. act. 

 bonn. xi. p. 177. t. 30. Flowers small, pale. 



Spiked- flowered Pilocarpus. Shrub 4 feet. 



3 P. PAUCIFLORA (St. Hil. bull, philom. 1823. p. 131. pi. 

 rem. bras. p. 147. fl. bras. 1. p. 83. t. 17.) leaves lanceolate, 

 obtuse, acuminated ; petioles thickened, jointed ; racemes few- 

 flowered ; rachis, pedicels, and bracteas puberulous. Tj . S. 

 Native of Brazil, in the province of St. Catharine. St. Hil. pi. 

 rem. bras. 1. p. 147. Flowers purplish. 



Few-flowered Pilocarpus. Shrub 4 feet. 



Cult. See Esenbeckia for cultivation and propagation. 



XXIX. HO'RTIA (in honour of the Count de Horta, a Por- 

 tuguese nobleman). Vand. in Roem. script, bras. 188. D. C. 

 prod. 1. p. 732. St. Hil. pi. usu. bras. p. 17. Andr. Juss. in 

 mem. mus. 12. p. 489. t. 22. no. 30. St. Hil. fl. bras. 1. p. 80. 



LIN. SYST. Pentandria, Monogynia. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 bluntly 5-toothed, permanent. Petals 5, bearded above the 

 base on the inside, uncmately acuminated at the apex, and re- 

 flexed, inserted in the disk. Stamens 5, inserted above the 

 petals, and scarcely longer ; filaments erect, covered with glan- 

 dular tubercles ; anthers linear-ovate, adnate. Ovary smooth, 

 pentagonal, 5-celled, seated on the disk, which is broader, de- 

 pressed, and glandular. Style conical, thickest at the apex, ter- 

 minated by a coloured 5-furrowed stigma. Capsule 5-4-2-cell- 

 ed ; cells 1-2 -seeded. Embryo slender, straight, in a fleshy 

 albumen, with large, obovate cotyledons, and a short superior 

 radicle. A small shrub, having the appearance of DdphneLau- 

 reola, with large, alternate, simple leaves, full of pellucid dots, 

 as well as the petals. Branches terminal, corymbosely many- 

 flowered ; peduncles thick, and are, as well as the pedicels, fur- 

 nished with bracteas. Flowers cymose, terminal, rose-coloured. 

 Petals convolute in the bud. 



1 H. BRASILIA'NA (Vand. 1. c.) f? . S. Native of Brazil, 

 where it is commonly called Quina, The bark is bitter and 

 astringent, and is used for the same purposes as Peruvian bark. 



Brazilian Hortia. Shrub 2 to 4 feet. 



Cult. See Esenbeckia for cultivation and propagation. 



XXX. CHOI'SYA (in honour of M. Choisy, a Genevese 

 botanist, author of several papers in De Candolle's, Prodromus). 

 H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 4. t. 513. D. C. prod. 1. 

 p. 724. Andr. Juss. in mem. mus. 12. p. 490. Plenckia, Moc. 

 et Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. but not of Rafin. 



LIN. SYST. Dectindria, Monogynia. Calyx of 5 deciduous 

 sepals. Petals 5, somewhat unguiculate. Stamens 10, shorter 

 than the petals ; filaments awl-shaped, the 5 shortest opposite 

 the petals ; anthers heart-shaped, blunt. Ovaries 5, connected, 

 pubescent, inserted in the gynophore, each containing 2 ovulae. 

 Styles 5, connected, hispid, shorter than the stamens, terminated 

 by a 5-lobed capitate stigma. A shrub, with opposite, ternate, 

 stalked leaves, full of pellucid dots; petioles channelled beneath. 

 Peduncles axillary at the tops of the branches, simple, trifid, or 

 somewhat umbellately few-flowered, bearing large deciduous 

 bracteas at the base, and at the divisions under the pedicels. 

 Corolla white, and is, as well as the calyx, full of glandular 

 dots. 



1 C. TERNA'TA (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c. t. 513.) Tj . S. Native 

 of Mexico. In Kunth's specimen, the ovaries are truly con- 

 nected, but in that of Andr. Juss. they are partly distinct. 



Ternaie-leaved Choisya. Clt. 1825. Shrub 6 feet. 



Cult. This beautiful shrub will grow freely in a mixture of 

 loam, sand, and peat ; and rather ripened cuttings will strike 

 root if planted thinly in a pot of sand under a hand-glass, in 

 heat. 



Tribe VI. 



CUSPARIE*^ (plants agreeing with Cusparia in important 

 characters). D. C. in mem. mus. 9. p. 141. Fraxinellae, Nees 

 et Mart, in nov. act. bonn. vol. xi. Andr. Juss. mem. mus. 12. 

 p. 490. Flowers regular or usually anomalous. Petals 5, free, 

 but usually connected into a labiate, campanulate, or funnel- 

 shaped corolla. In the polypetalous flowers the stamens are 

 alternate with the petals, and free ; in the monopetalous flowers 

 the filaments are free, but usually adhering to the tube of the. 

 corolla, sometimes all bearing anthers, sometimes 2-5 of which 

 are barren. Disk urceolar, girding the ovaries at the base. 

 Ovaries equal in number to the petals, distinct, rarely connected 

 in one, each containing 2 ovulae. Styles connected at the top or 

 middle, or in one. Seeds with a thin covering. Embryo desti- 

 tute of albumen, with large, short, or usually corrugated cotyle- 

 dons, the outer one wrapped round the inner one, bearing 2 

 auricles on each side, and covering the radicle. Trees and 

 shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely nearly opposite, 

 simple, but usually trifoliate ; leaflets lanceolate and obtuse, quite 

 entire. Flowers disposed in terminal or axillary racemes. Di- 

 verse parts frequently bitter. 



XXXI. SPIRANTHERA (from arreipa, speira, a spire, and 

 avSijpa, anthera, an anther ; anthers spirally twisted). St. Hil. 

 bull, philom. 1823. p. 130. pi. rem. bras. 1. p. 148. t. 17. D. C. 

 prod. 1. p. 728. Andr. Juss. in mem. mus. 12. p. 491. t. 23. no. 

 32. Terpnanthus, Neeset Mart. nov. act. bonn. xi. p. 152. and 

 177. t. 19. f. K. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx short, 5-cleft. 

 Petals 5, very long, free, linear, somewhat falcate, rather un- 

 equal. Stamens 5, a little shorter than the petals, free ; fila- 

 ments filiform, tubercled ; anthers linear, at length becoming 

 spirally revolute. Ovaries 5, villous, connected at the base, and 

 stipitate, girded by the bell-shaped disk. Styles 5, rising from 

 the inner angles of the ovaries, joined in one, longer than the 

 petals, hispid at the base, terminated by a 5-lobed capitate 

 stigma. Fruit of 5, or fewer carpels, connected at the base 

 A small shrub, with alternate, stalked, ternate, exstipulate 

 leaves. Peduncles axillary at the tops of the branches, naked 

 below, but trifid and 3-flowered at the top, or terminal corym- 

 bose ; pedicels furnished with 1 or 3 bracteas. Flowers shewy, 

 white, with a tinge of rose-colour, very sweet-scented. 



1 S. ODORATI'SSIMA (St. Hil. 1. c.) ^ . S. Native of Brazil. 

 Terpnanthus Jasminodorus, Nees et Mart, in act. bonn. xi. p. 



