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the base of the internal angle, slightly thickened at its stigma- 

 tiferous apex. In the ovary cell a placenta is seen supporting two 

 descending collateral ovules, very incompletely anatropous, the short 



Suriana marititna 



Fig. 526. 

 Flower (±). 



Fia. 528. 

 Fruit (f ). 



Fig. 529. 

 Long:, sect, of fruit. 



Fig. 527. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



raphe looking downwards and inwards. The fruit, accompanied by 

 the persistent calyx, is formed of five drupes (or fewer) almost com- 

 pletely dry, the stone containing a campylotropous ascending seed, 

 the coats covering a large fleshy embryo, folded upon itself, so that 

 the incumbent cotyledons and superior radicle have their summits 

 near the point of attachment. S.maritima? the only known species, 

 is a shrub frequently met wuth on the sea-coast of all tropical coun- 

 tries. It is tastless, covered with capitate hairs. The leaves are 

 alternate, simple, narrow, articulate at the base, besprinkled with 

 glandular punctures. The flowers are united towards the extremity 

 of the branches in false racemes of uniparous, short, few-flowered, 

 but ramified cymes. 



Rutacece? thus comprised, constitute a family by concatenation 

 with many affinities, the fourteen series presenting the general cha- 

 racters which follow. 



I. EutE/E. 3 — Flowers regular (or exceptionally irregular), with 

 convex receptacle. Sepals, petals, and stamens free, inserted below a 



1 L., Spec, 284. — Wight & Aen., Prodr., 

 361. — Bexth., Fl. Austral., i. 375.— Oliv., 

 M. Trop. Afr., i. 313— Walp., Ann., vii. 511. 



2 Rutce J., Gen. (1789), 296.— Rulacece DC, 

 Prodr., i. (1824), 709, Ord. 51.— A. Juss., 

 Mem. surles Rntacees (in Mem. Mus., xii.461). — ■ 

 Baetl., Ord. Nat., 389. — Lixdl., Introd., ed. 2, 



130; Yeg. Kingd., 469, Ord. 176.— Enel,, Gen., 

 Ord. 270.— B. H., Gen., 278, Ord. 39. 



3 Rv.tece A. Jrss., loe. cit. (1825), 7S. — 

 B. H., Gen., 2S0, Trib. 2. — Rutacce Ekdl., loc. 

 cit. — Fraxinellece Nees & Maet., in Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cur., xi. 149 (1823). — Dictamnea AG., 

 Theor. Syst., 227. 



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