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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



folioles often opposite, like the whole '"plant pellncid-punctuate, 

 aromatic ; flowers in axillary or terminal racemes, sometimes spici- 

 form, oftener ramified cymiferous ; pedicels usually articulate {All 

 Tropical and Subtropical Regions, rarely Temperate). See p. 390. 



42. Evodia Forst. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 4, 

 5-merous (nearly of Zanthoxylori) ; sepals decussate-alternate or 

 quincuncially imbricated, persistent. Petals 4, 5, much larger, 

 valvate or subvalvate. Stamens double in number to petals (Mcli- 

 cope,' Pelea*), or equal {Euevodia, 4 Bomnia 6 ), inserted below disk, 

 much varied in form (either subentire, more or less adnate to car- 

 pels, or 4, 5-lobed ; lobes more or less prominent between stamens), 

 either all fertile, or sometimes but very rarely oppositipetalous, 

 sterile {Brombya 6 ) and much smaller than fertile. Germen free ; cells 

 4, 5, oppositipetalous, entirely {Melicope, Euevodia) or at apex only 

 (Pelea, Bomnia, Boymid') free ; style inserted at apical depression 

 of germen, stigmatiferous 4, 5-lobed at apex ; ovules in cells 2, 

 descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Other characters of 

 Zanihoxylon. Carpels in fruit free, dry, 1, 2-valved, or capsule 

 4, 5-locular, with base of stamens and calyx stipate at base, 

 loculicidal from apex, scarcely to middle ; endocarp separating ; 

 seeds oblong; testa thick black; embryo albuminous; coty- 

 ledons elliptical ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site or sometimes {Peleastrunf) alternate, petiolate, simple, punc- 

 tuate, penninerved; flowers in terminal and axillary bracteate 



1 Char. Gen,, t. 7 (nee GjERTN.). — Lamk., 

 Diet., ii. 38; Suppl., ii. 292; III., t. 811.— 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 88, 90.— A. Juss., in Mem. 

 Mus., xii. 484, t. 22, fig. 28.— Endl., Gen., n. 

 5996.— B. H., Gen., 296, 994, n. 46.— H. Bn., 

 in Adansonia, x. 325 (incl. : Astorganthus 

 Endl., Auhertia Bory, Puninia Pl., Poymia 



A. Juss., Prombya F. Muell., Entogaaum 

 Banks, Lepta Lour., Megabothrya Hance, 

 Melicope Forst., Pelea A. Gray, Ph'lagonia 

 Bl., Telradium Loui:.). 



2 Char. Gen., t. 28.— J., Gen., 429, 453.— 

 DC, Prodr., i. 723.— Endl., Gen., n. 5995.— 



B. H., Gen., 295, 990, n. 45. — Entoganum 

 Banks, in Gcertn. Fruct., i. 331, t. 68. — Astor- 

 ganthus Endl., mss. (ex Hook., Icon., t. 585). — 

 Aubertia Bory, Vol/., i. 35' >. 



3 A. GRAY, in Unit. St. E.rplor. Exp., Pot., 

 i. 339, t. 35-38. — II. B$., in Adansonia, x. 

 321. 



4 F. Mtjell., Fragm., v. 4. — B. H., Gen., 

 991, n. 45 a, 



5 Of which section are Evodia (Forst.) 

 and Lepta Lour., Fl. Cochinch., 82, Am- 

 paens Rumph., Herb. Amboin., ii. 186, t. 62 

 (efr. Tr. & Pl., in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 5, xiv. 

 308, not.). 



6 Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, xiv. 309. — 

 II. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 325. 



7 A. Juss., in Minn. Mus., xii. 507, t. 25, 

 fig. 39.— Sieb. & Zrcc, Fl. Jap., i. 50, t. 21. 



8 Leaves also imparipinnate in Philagonia 

 Bl., Pijdr., 250 (E. Roxburghiana), Mega- 

 bothrya Hance, in Wal/p. Ann., ii. 259 (E. 

 melicefolia) and in Tctradio Lour., Fl. Co- 

 chinch., 91 (E. fraxiitifulia), whose germen, 

 seated on the glandular disk, is plurilocular at 

 the hase (as in Pelea and Poymia) on account 

 of the slightly connate carpels. 



