116 XXX. RUTACE^. \Glycosmis 



nohilis L.), 8 to 12 ft. high; branches erect-patent, glabrous, 

 copiously leafy ; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, very rigid, quite dry 

 even in the living state, glossy, glandular-dotted, alternate, ex- 

 stipulate, unifoliolate, glabrous, rather pallid ; petiole | to 1 in. 

 long, jointed at both ends, marked with two quasi-dee urrent 

 lines; leaflet elliptical or somewhat oblong or obovate, mostly 

 narrowed at both ends, entire, 2 to 7| in. long by | to 2 in. 

 broad, with numerous not conspicuous veins and net-veins 

 and narrowly revolute margin. Infructescence axillary and 

 lateral, lacemose, about 1 in. long, 4-8-fruited, glabrous ; 

 pedicels shorter than the fruit. Fruit (immature) obovoid, 

 glabrous, | to g in. long, black, baccate or drupaceous, but 

 little juicy, 2 -celled ; cells unequal, the larger one containing- 

 a small imperfect seed and collaterally a perfect seed occupying 

 the chief portion of the cell with a long attachment to the upper 

 part of the dissepiment, the smaller cell containing 1 or 2 small 

 imperfect seeds ; embryo half the length of the perfect seed ; 

 cotyledons equal; radicle very short. Fruiting calyx small, 

 inferior, -^^ in. diam., with 4 1 rounded or apiculate segments, 

 saucer-shaped. 



Zexza do GoLrNGO. — On dry bushy rocky hills between Camutanda 

 and Quicanda, in young fr. Sept. 1857 ; also in mountainous rocky 

 situations above Tandambondo, in young fr. Sept. 1854. No. 471- 



This should be compared with G. afrkana Hook, f., which however 

 has rather shorter infructescence and petioles. 



5. CLAUSENA Burm. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 304. 



1. C. anisata Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v., Suppl. p. 34 (1861), 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 308, non Hook. f. 



Var. multijuga (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 



A shrub or almost a small elegant tree, 7 to 12 ft. high ; 

 bi'anches far-reaching, almost sarmentose, slender; branchlets 

 clothed with a very short closely set puberulence, leafy. Leaves 

 pinnate, alternate or sub-opposite, crowded at the extremities of 

 the branches, exstipulate, 3 to 10 in. long; petiole g to 1 in. long; 

 petiolules mostly very short ; leaflets alternate or sub-opposite, 

 17 to 32, obhquely ovate or lanceolate, often acuminate at the 

 apex, unequally narrowed at the base, pellucid- punctate with im- 

 pressed glands, fragrant when rubbed, emitting a very agreeable 

 aroma like that of oranges and lemons, glabrate or puberulous on 

 the midrib and margin, membranous, pale green on both surfaces, 

 entire or minutely crenulate, 5 to 2 in. long by |^ to | in. broad. 

 Inflorescence in the upper axils and subterminal, 4 to 9 in. long, 

 puberulous, nairow, paniculate, many-flowered, erect or ascending ; 

 ultimate pedicels short. Flowers hermaphrodite, white; buds 

 globose-clavate, 4-gibbous, ^ in. in diam. ; calyx small, puberulous, 

 4-cleft ; lobes ovate ; petals 4, densely beset with little protuberant 

 gi-een-yellowish glands ; stamens 8, 4 opposite the calyx-lobes and 

 4 opposite the petals ; stigma 4-lobed, Young fruit baccate, flask- 

 shaped, dotted with impressed glands, which emit an aroma like 



