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Diosmca. Seeds with cylindrical embryo, surrounded by a fleshy 

 albumen. — Oceanian shrubs, with simple or compound leaves, glan- 

 dular-punctuate. — (15 genera.) 



V. Zanthoxyle^e. 1 — Flowers regular, frequently polygamo- 

 dicecious, with convex receptacle, rarely cupuliform. Petals free, 

 equal. Androceum isostemonous or diplostemonous, with free 

 pieces. Carpels frequently free in the ovary {Eiizanthoxylece) , or 

 united in a plurilocular ovary (Todclaliece-). Ovules 2, or rarely 1, 

 descending, with superior and exterior micropyle. Fruit dry, dehis- 

 cent or flesh y, with or without stone. Seeds albuminous or exal- 

 buminous. — Trees or shrubs from all the warm regions of the world, 

 with alternate or opposite, simple or oftener 3-foliolate or compound- 

 pinnate leaves, generally punctuate. — (28 genera.) 



VI. Amyride,e. 3 — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polyga- 

 mous-dioecious, 4-5-merous. Petals free, valvate or imbricate. 

 Androceum isostemonous or diplostemonous. Gynseceum unicarpel- 

 lary ; ovary 1 -celled, containing two descending ovules, with exterior 

 and superior micropyle. Fruit fleshy. Seed descending, with thick, 

 fleshy, exalbuminous embryo. Trees or shrubs, generally American, 

 with compound leaves, 1— oo-foliolate punctuate. — (3 genera.) 



VII. Aurantie^e. 4 — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Petals free, 

 hypogynous. Stamens double in number to petals, or cc, free or 

 polyadelphous. Carpels united in a plurilocular ovary ; style often 

 articulate at the base, or caducous. Ovules l-x> , descending. Berry 

 often pulpy, cortical. Seeds exalbuminous. — Trees and shrubs of the 

 tropical regions of the Old World, aromatic, punctuate, with com- 

 pound leaves, 1- oc-foliolate. — (8 genera.) 



VIII. Balanites. 5 — Flowers hermaphrodite, pentamerous, diplo- 



1 Xees & Mart., in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., 

 xi. (1823).— A. Juss., in Mem. Mas., xii. 422, 

 497 (1825).— Exr>x., Gen., 1147, Ord. 250.— 

 AG., op. cit., 224, t. 19.— B. H., Gen., 295, 

 Trib. 5. — Zanthoxylacece Li>dl., Veg. Kingd., 

 472, Ord. 177. — Pteleacea K., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 

 ser. 1, ii. (1S24), 345. — Terebinlhacece (part.) 

 J., Gen., 368.— DC, Prodr., ii. 82.— Pilocar- 

 pece Baktu, Ord. Nat., 388.— Ag , op. cit., 221. 



2 Toddaliece B. H., Gen., 300, Trib. 6. 



3 Amgridem 11. Be., Congo, 431 (1818).— 

 K., in Ann. Sc. Nat , ser. 1, ii. 353. — Exdl., 

 Gen., 1139. — Ag., op. cit., 231. — JDurseracea 

 B. H., Gen., 327, Trib. 2. — Terebinthacecc 

 (part.) J., Gen., 368. — Amgridacece Lindl., 

 Introd.i Veg. Kingd., 459, Ord. 171. 



4 J., Gen., 260.— B. H., Gen., 303, Trib. 7. 

 — HesperidecB (part.) Vent., Tall., iii. 154. — 



ntiacece Cobb., in Ann. Mus., vi. 376. — 

 MiEB., in Bull. Soc. Philom. (1813), 379. — 

 DC, Prodi:, i. 535, Ord. 33.— Endl., Gen., 

 1043, Ord. 224.— Lindl., Veg. Kingd., 457, 

 Ord. 150. — H. Bn., Aurant. (see p. 405, 

 note 1). — Ac, op. cit., 222, t. 19. — Oliv., 

 The Nat. Ord. Aurant. (in Joum. Linn. Soc, 

 v. Suppl., 1). 



5 Balanites Endl., Gen. (1841), 547 (ex 

 Lindl., Veg. Kingd. (1846), 459).— Pi., in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, iii. 346. The author 

 connects this genus with the Meliacece, but 

 Bewtham & Hookee have made it a Sim-t- 

 rubece. 



