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cymes 1 [Trop. Asia, Ind. and Vac. Archipelago, Australia, N. Zealand, 

 N. Caledonia, Mascaren. Isles, Malasia"). 



43. Boucliardatia H. Bn. 3 — Flowers (nearly of Evodia), 4-merous ; 

 calyx short, imbricated. Petals longer, imbricated. Stamens 8, 

 inserted with perianth towards base of elongated obpyramidal 

 receptacle ; filaments dilated at base, snbpetaloid ; anthers in- 

 trorse, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, oppositipetalous, inserted at summit 

 of receptacle ; germen free; ovules in each about 12, 2-seriate, 

 descending ; styles inserted slightly below apex at internal angle of 

 germen, afterwards coalescing in conoid column, stigmatiferous, 

 scarcely capitate at apex. Mature carpels free, folliculiform, dehis- 

 cent ; endocarp curved, veined, separating ; seeds few, albuminous. 

 — A small glabrous tree ; leaves opposite, petiolate, pinnate, 3-folio- 

 late ; terminal foliole long petiolulate ; flowers 4 in opposite-ramified 

 terminal cymes {North-eastern Australia"'). 



44. Bosistoa F. Muell. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx short, 

 gamophyllous, 5-dentate. Petals 5, valvate, inflexed at apex ; sta- 

 mens 10, 2-seriate, inserted below disk, and prominent between 

 filaments dilated at base ; anthers rather large, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Carpels 5, oppositipetalous, free ; germens in internal angle 5, 6-ovu- 

 late; ovules 2-seriate, descending; micropyle extrorse, superior; styles 

 inserted at summit of internal angle of germen, afterwards slightly 

 cohering among themselves, finally solute, stigmatiferous, not di- 

 lated at apex. Fruit cocci 1-5, large, free, coriaceous, compressed, 

 2-valved ; endocarp cartilaginous, separating ; seeds solitary ; testa 

 membranous; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick, fleshy; radicle 



1 A genus scarcely distinguished from Zan- Gray, Unit. St. JErpl. Fxp., Bot., i. 332, 349, 

 thoxylon, except by very artificial characters. i. 39 (Melicope). — Hook. F„ in Trans-. Linn. 

 From the peculiar configuration of the receptacle Soc., xxiii. 166. — H. By., in Adansonia, x. 

 and disk we can find no good generic dis- 322 (Pelea), 326. — Walp., Sep., i. 500 (Meli- 

 tinction. cope), 522, 523; v. 387 (Melicope); Ann., iv. 



2 Species about 50 (more or less known, of 410 (Melicope), 415, 417; v. 397; vii. 525. 

 which some are simple leaved, described as 3 In Adansonia, vii. 347, t. 10; ix. 109. 

 belonging to Eastern Ins. and warm South 4 Small, crowded. 



Africa). Labile., Serf. Austro-Caled., t. 74. 5 Spec. 1. B. neurococca H. Bn., op. cit., ix. 



— Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norfolk., 86. — A. Cunn., 110. — B. ausiralis H. Bn., op. cit., vii. 351. — 



in Ann. Nat. Hist., iii. 315 (Melicope). — Evodia neurococca F. Muell., Fragm., i. 28; 



Schott, Rutac, t. 1. — NEE3, in Flora (1825), ii. 103. — Melicope neurococca Bentii., Fl. Aus- 



125 (Philagoni a.— Hook., Icon., t. 603 (Meli- tral., i. 360. — Walp., Ann., vii. 525. 

 cope, 710 (Philagonia). — BENTH., Fl. Hong- 6 Ex Bknth., Fl. Austral., i. 359. — B. H., 



lcong., 58; Fl. Austral., i. 359 (Melicope), 361. Gen., 990, n. 45 a.— H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 



— F. Muell., Fragm., i. 28; ii. 102.— A. 328. 



