98 RUE FAMILY. 



* « Leaves b-1-lohed or parted. 



T. peregrlnum, Willd. Canary Bird Flower. Climbing high ; lobes 

 of the leaves mucroiiate and cut ; spur hooked or curved ; petals light 

 yellow, the 2 upper cut into slender lobes, the 3 lower small and 

 fringed. 



8. IMPATIENS, TOUCH-ME-NOT, JEWELWEED, BALSAM. 



(Name from the sudden bursting of the pod when touched.) 



» Native, in low places. 



I. pallida, Nutt. Pale T. 1°-4° high, branched ; leaves alternate, 

 oval ; flowers panicled, pale yellow dotted with brownish-red (rarely- 

 spotless), the sac broader than long and tipped with a short, incurved 

 spur. Wet ground and moist shady places, commonest N. 



I. Mlva. Nutt. Spotted T. Has smaller orange-colored flowers 

 spotted with reddish-brown, sac longer than broad and tapering into a 

 strongly inflexed spur (spots and spur rarely wanting). Common, espe- 



•' ' * * Garden species. 



I. Balsdmina, Linn. Garden Balsam, from India. Low, with crowded 

 lanceolate leaves, the lower opposite, a cluster of large and showy short- 

 spurred flowers in their axils, on short stalks, of very various shades 

 (from white to red and purple) ; the finer sorts full double. 



/. Sultdni, Hook. Erect, leaves acuminate at both ends, serrate with 

 a bristle at each tooth ; flowers solitary or 2-3 together, on slender axil- 

 lary peduncles ; petals scarlet, quite flat, the lateral ones cleft to the base, 

 the lobes somewhat larger than the third ; blade of spurred sepal not 

 half the length of petals, spur long, slender, up-curved. Zanzibar. Cult, 

 in greenhouses. % 



XXVI. RUTACE^, RUE FAMILY. 



Known by the transparent dots or glands resembling punc- 

 tures (wanting in Xo. 4) in the simple or compound leaves, 

 containing a pungent or acrid bitter-aromatic volatile oil ; and 

 stamens only as many or twice as many as the sepals (or in 

 Orange and Lemon more numerous), inserted on the base of 

 a receptacle (or a glandular disk surrounding it) which some- 

 times elevates more or less the single compound pistil or the 

 2-5 more or less separate carpels. Leaves either opposite or 

 alternate, in ours mostly alternate, without stipules. Flowers 

 only in Xo. 2 irregular. Many species are medicinal. 



§1. Perennial, strong-scented, hardy (exotic) herbs ; flowers perfect; stamens S or 

 lu ; ovary i-b-lohed, i-b-celled ; seeds several. 



1. RUTA. Sepals and petals 4 or 5, short, the latter roundish and arching. Stamens twice 



as many as the petals. Style 1. Pod globular and many-seeded. Leaves decompound. 



2. DICTAMXUS. Sepals and petals 5; the latter long and lanceolate, on short claws, the 



lower one declining, the others ascending. Stamens 10 ; the long filaments declining 

 and curved, partly glandular. Styles 5, nearly separate. Ovary a little elevated, 

 deeply .5-lobed, in fruit becoming 5 flattened, rough-glandular, •2-;J-seeded pods, each 

 •putting when ripe into 2 valves, which divide into an outer and an Inner layer. 

 Leaves pinnate. 



