Murray a. 

 Outer B 



furraya.] XVII. RUTACE^:. 49 



Outer Himalaya, from the Ravi to Assam, ascending to 4000, sometimes to 

 5000 ft. ; Oudh, Gorakhpur, not common in the Central Provinces. Common in 

 Bengal and South India. Leaves renewed in March and April ; fl. from 

 April onward ; fruit ripens June-January. Fruit aromatic, astringent ; pulp 

 with a subacrid white juice. 



A small, elegant tree, 12-15 ft. high, with a short trunk to 18 in. girth, a 

 round, close, shady crown, with bright green foliage. All parts of the plant have 

 a peculiar, powerful, rather disagreeable, aromatic odour, whence most of the 

 native names. Bark thin, purplish brown, smooth, partly reticulate, the old 

 bark exfoliating in flat, nearly 4-sided, hard scales. Wood close-, even-grained, 

 hard, durable, employed for agricultural implements. Cultivated for the 

 sake of its leaves, which are used to flavour curries. 



4. CLAUSENA, Burm. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees, with alternate, imparipinnate leaves. Flowers 

 bisexual. Calyx 4-5-toothed, or -lobed. Petals 4->, free, slightly imbricate. 

 Stamens 8-10, free; filaments dilated. Ovary on a short raised torus, 

 2-5-celled ; style at length deciduous ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a 

 1-5-celled and -seeded berry. 



1. C. pentaphylla, DC. Syn. Amyris pentaphylla, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 247. Vern. Rattanjote, surjmukha, Khyrigarh ; Teyrur, Gonda 

 (Oudh). 



A deciduous shrub, extremities silky tomentose; full-grown leaves pu- 

 bescent. Leaflets 5-7, leaflets subopposite or alternate, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 4-6 in. long, short-petiolulate. Main lateral nerves 

 prominent, numerous, anastomosing by conspicuous intramarginal veins. 

 Flowers yellowish, in terminal, hairy cymose panicles. Berry ovoid, ver- 

 rucose, pale orange, J~J in. long. 



Sub-Himalayan tract, Kamaon, and Nepal. Sal forests of the Doons and of 

 Oudh. Fl. April, May. Fruit ripens Nov. The bruised leaves are highly 

 aromatic. 



5. GLYCOSMIS, Correa. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees with imparipinnate or unifoliolate leaves. 

 Flowers bisexual, small. Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, free, imbricate. 

 Stamens 10, free, alternately shorter. Ovary sessile, or on a very short 

 stipe, with 5 (or fewer) cells ; ovules solitary ; style very short and 

 thick, continuous with the ovary, persistent. Fruit 1- or few-seeded. 



1. G. pentaphylla, DC. ; W. & A. Prodr. 93. Syn. Limonia penta- 

 phylla, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 84; Fl. Ind. ii. 381. Vern. Ban-nimhu {wild 

 lemon), pilru potala, N.W.P. ; Girgitti, Oudh ; Kirmira, Bomb. 



A small, evergreen, erect shrub, wholly glabrous, exceedingly variable in 

 its foliage. Leaves generally with 3-5 leaflets, often unifoliolate ; lateral 

 leaflets alternate or subopposite. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, ovate or obo- 

 vate, acuminate, 4-12 in. long, penninerved; main lateral nerves distinct, 

 but not prominent, joined by inconspicuous intramarginal veins. Flowers 

 white, fragrant, in erect terminal or lateral panicles. Berries subglobose, 

 white, pink, or blue, somewhat compressed, J in. across. 



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