rutacej:. boa 



angular base of germen recurved, subfree or cohering' at middle 

 among themselves ; ovules solitary, finally ascending. Drupes 1-5, 

 scarcely fleshy ; putamen crustaceous or coriaceous ; seeds formed 

 like cell, copiously filled with albumen ; embryo straight. — Bitter 

 trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles entire or glandular- 

 dentate ; the inferior sometimes stipuliform ; flowers 1 in axillary 

 ramified cymiferous racemes 2 (Trqp. and East. Asia 3 ). 



96. Picrolernrna Hook, f. 4 — "Flowers dioecious ; male usually 

 4-merous ; calyx cupular, imbricated, and petals longer, alternate, 

 imbricated, punctuate, deciduous. Stamens 4, oppositipetalous, 

 inserted round minute rudimentary gynseceum ; glands 4, small 

 alternate ; filaments free, more or less corrugated in bud ; anthers 

 2-rimose. Female flowers usually 5-merous ; stamens 5, sterile 

 rudimentary, inserted below base of 5 carpels ; germens free; ovules 

 in each solitary, descending ; style short, thick, capitate, stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Drupes 5 (solitary by abortion) ; flesh scanty ; 

 putamen thin, crustaceous ; linear hilum of seeds and embryo of 

 Quassia. — Small simple glabrous trees ; bark very bitter ; leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate; folioles multijugate, petiolulate, entire; 

 flowers 6 in slender irregularly ramified cymiferous racemes shorter 

 than leaf (Troj). South-East. America 1 ). 



97. Brucea Mill. 8 — Flowers polygamous (nearly of Pier ana), 

 4-merous, sepals short, imbricated. Petals longer, imbricated. 

 Stamens 4, alternipetalous (effete in female flower), inserted exter- 

 nally below disk between the 4 lobes ; filaments free, naked ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, oppositipetalous (rudimentary or 

 in male flower) ; germens free ; styles free, usually thick, recurved, 

 inwardly at middle only cohering among themselves, otherwise free, 

 inwardly stigmatiferous patent at apex ; ovule in germens solitary, 



1 Virescent. 6 Small, golden, ebracteate. 



2 A genus nearly allied to Picrana (formerly ' Spec. 1. 1'. Sprucei H.OOK. v., loc. cit. 



a section of it) differing by accrescent petals, 8 Fasc, t. 25. — K., in Arm. Sc. Xat., set-. 1, 



ovules, and albumen. ii. 362. — DC, Prodr., ii. 88. — Juss., in Mem. 



3 Spec. 5, 6. Benn., PL Jav. Par., t. 41. — litis., xii. 501. — Spach, Suit, a JiuJ/bn, ii. 362. 

 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 679, t. 28. — — Eni>l., Gen., n. 5970. — IJ. II., Gen., 311, n. 

 A. Okay, in Mem. Arner. Acad. (1859), 383, 13. — II. Bn., in Diet. Encycl. Sc. Med., xi. 

 not. — Walp., Ann., iv. 167 (spec, as.); vii. 174 ; in Adansonia, xi. fasc. 1. — Gonus Louit., 

 510. Fl. Cochinch., 809. — Nima Ham., hiss, (ex 



4 Gen., 312, n. 15. A. Jr/aS., loc. cit., 516). — L'sdl., Gen., n. 

 3 Bather large glabrous, " minute." 5966. 



