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NATURAL niSTOIiY OF PLANTS. 



late, 1 entire, persistent ; flowers 2 axillary, solitary or cymose (Trqp. 

 Indict). 



SI. Feronia Corr 4 — Flowers (nearly of Limonia) polygamous; 

 calyx small, flat, 5, G dentate, deciduous. Petals 4-0. Stamens 

 10-12; filaments free, dilated at base; anthers oblong. Germen 

 4-6-locular ; cells often incomplete ; style short, thick, oblong, fusi- 

 form, stigmatiferous at apex, deciduous (?) ; ovules in cells oo, 

 descending. Berry subglobose ; 5 cortex ligneous ; cells go, incom- 

 plete, replete with pulp ; seeds oo, compressed ; embryo fleshy ; 

 cotyledons thick. — A spinose tree ; leaves imparipinnate j folioles 

 opposite, subsessile, punctuate ; petiole sometimes winged ; flowers 6 

 in simple or ramified loose cymiferous racemes (Trqp. Asia 7 ). 



82. -SEg-le Corr. 8 — Flowers nearly of Feronia, 4-5-merous; sta- 

 mens oo (30-60), free ; cells of ovary cc, oo-ovulate. Berry cc- 

 locular; 9 cortex ligneous; cells replete with mucus, cc-spermous. 

 Seeds "oblong, compressed; testa woolly, mucous." — Spinose trees; 

 leaves 3-foliolate, punctuate ; flowers 10 in scanty axillary racemes 

 {West. Trqp. Africa and Asia"). 



83. Citrus L. — Flowers 5- or more rarely 4-8-merous ; calyx 

 cupular urceolate or more rarely subplane {Papeda). Stamens oc, 

 inserted round orbicular disk ; filaments unequally polyadelphous, 

 very rarely fasciculate, subfree (Papeda). Germen cc-locular ; style 

 terete or obconical, often articulate at base, deciduous, stigmatiferous 

 capitate subentire or lobed at apex ; ovules in each cell oo, 2-seriate 

 inserted. Berry varying in form, corticate ; cells oc, interior filled 

 with piliform compressed juicy cells (springing from endocarp). 

 Seeds oo, often few, horizontal or oblique, descending ; testa more 



1 Articulation often obscure. 



2 White, rather large. 



3 Spec, ad 4. Wight, III., t. 42 (Microme- 

 lum). — Waxp., Ann., vii. 534. 



4 Iu Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 224.— DC, Prodr., 

 i. 538. — Spach, Suit, a Bujfon, ii. 251. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5512.— H. Bn., Aurant., 18, 35. — 

 Olit., loc. cit., 21, 44.— B. H., Gen., 305, n. 82. 



5 Large, externally corticate, hard. 



6 White, handsome. 



7 Spec. 1. F. elephanium Coke., loc. cit. — 

 Roxb., PL Curomand., ii. t. 141. — Wight & 

 Aun., Prodr., i. 96. 



8 In Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 222. — DC, 

 Prodr., i. 538. — Spach, Suit, a Bujfon, ii. 

 255. — Endl., Gen., a. 5513. — H. Bn., Aurant., 

 18, 36.— Oliv., loc. cit, 21, 44.— B. H., Gen., 

 306, n. 83. — Belou Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 

 408. 



,J Large, often globose, exterior very hard, 

 interior finally juicy. 



10 White, rather large, odoriferous. 



11 Spec. 2, 3. Wight, Icon., t. 16. — Roxb., 

 PI. Coromand., t. 143. — WIGHT & AeN., 

 Prodr., i. 96. 



