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40. Diplolsena E. Br. 1 — Flowers nearly of Chorilana, without 

 sepals ; petals 5, squamiform, naked or ciliate. Stamens 10, 

 2-seriate, disk, gynseceum, and fruit of Chlorilcena. — Shrubs, with 

 stellate tomentose hairs ; leaves alternate petiolate, linear or oblong 

 entire glandular-punctuate ; flowers small in axillary pedunculate 

 nutant capitula (simulating flowers), inflorescence densely crowded 

 and sessile on flat receptacle ; bracts oo , imbricated in involucre 

 round flowers ; exterior shorter pubescent or tomentose ; interior 

 petaloid (simulating corolla) larger {South- West Australia;). 



V. ZANTHOXYLE^E. 



41. Zanthoxylum L. — Flowers polygamous-dioecious ; receptacle 

 short convex. Sepals 2-6 (or more rarely 0), more or less high 

 connate, imbricated. Petals same in number (or sometimes 0), im- 

 bricate or induplicate-valvate. Stamens equal in number to petals 

 (in female flower effete, rudimentary or 0) ; filaments inserted below 

 disk (in male flower minute or 0, in hermaphrodite female longer 

 produced) ; anthers introrsely 2-rimose. Gynseceum (in male flower 

 rudimentary, simple or 2-5-partite) 1-5 carpels or more rarelv 

 6-8 oppositipetalous and constant ; germens 1-locular free or very 

 rarely {Perijcea) connate in plurilocular ovary ; ovules in each 2, in- 

 serted at the internal angle, descending ; micropyle extrorse supe- 

 rior; styles apical or inserted at a greater or less height at internal 

 angle of germen, more or less elongated, free or more or less joined 

 among themselves ; apex stigmatiferous rather thick. Fruit of 

 1-5 cocci, or very rarely plurilocular, loculicidal capsular ; cocci 

 often drupaceous glandular, usually 2-valved ; endocarp sometimes 

 solute. Seeds oblong or subglobose widely umbilicate, at maturity 

 pendent by filiform funicle ; testa hard, usually crustaceous black ; 

 albumen fleshy oily ; embryo axile straight or curved ; cotyledons 

 foliaceous flat; radicle short superior. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous 

 or pubescent, unarmed spinescent or straight recurved and bristly 

 aculeate ; leaves alternate l-oo -foliolate usually imparipinnate ; 



1 In Mind. Voy., ii. 546. — Desf., in Mem. ~ Spec. 4. Baetl., in PI. Preiss., i. 173. — 



Mus., iii. 450, t. 19, 20. — DC, Prodr., i. 719. — Hook., in Pot. Mag., sub n. 4059. — Benth., 



A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., xii. 479. — Endl., Gen., Fl. Austral., i. 358. 

 n. 6011.— B. II., Gen., 295, 990, n. 44. 



