RUT ACE 2E. 505 



reflexed, versatile laterally or subintrorsely rimose. Carpels 5, 

 oppositipetalous (in male flower rudimentary or 0) ; germens free ; 

 styles same in number, soon coalescing among themselves, stigma- 

 tiferous free at apex; ovule solitary in germens, descending ; micro- 

 pyle extrorse superior. Drupes 3-5, stipitate or subsessile, dry, 

 finally late inwardly dehiscing ; seed and exalbuminous embryo of 

 Quassia. — Bitter trees ; branches frondose at apex ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; folioles oblong, entire, co-jugate ; flowers in large 

 subterminal much ramified cymiferous racemes ; branches and twigs 

 glandular-pilose compressed {Malayan Archipelago 1 ). 



100. Picrella H. Bn. 2 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 shortly convex. Sepals 4, decussate-imbricated. Petals 4, alter- 

 nate, much longer, erect-connivent in suburceolate corolla, valvate, 

 acute, finally reflexed at apex. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; fila- 

 ments free, inserted without between lobes of hypogynous glandular 3 

 disk ; anthers short, introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, oppositipetalous ; 

 germens free, produced at apex in short slender styles, soon coalesc- 

 ing among themselves ; summit of column stigmatiferous subovoid- 

 capitate; ovules solitary in each cell, inserted at internal angle; 

 either descending micropyle extrorse, superior ; or ascending 

 micropyle introrse, inferior. Fruit . . . ? — A glabrous shrub, in all 

 parts glandular-punctuate and very bitter ; leaves opposite petiolate, 

 3-foliolate ; folioles ovate or subobovate; flowers 4 in small opposite 

 cymuliferous racemes, axillary to leaves of upper branches ; pedicels 

 articulate, 3-bracteolate 5 {Mexico 6 ). 



101. Dictyoloma DC. 7 — Flowers polygamous, 5-merous; calyx 

 gamophyllous, short, imbricated? Petals 5, much longer than 

 calyx, imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments free, in- 

 wardly crowded with wide simple or 2-fid ciliate glands ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose, versatile. Carpels 5, oppositipetalous (rudimen- 

 tary in male flower), seated on summit of receptacle, produced be- 

 yond stamens in glandular knobs longitudinally before staminal 



1 Spec. 2. Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl., 209, 4 Small, white. 



335. — Walp., Ann., i. 174. 5 A genus as if intermediate between Esen- 



2 In Adansonia, x. 1 !9, t. 10. bechia (Zanthoxylon) and Simarubeee. 



3 " Discus inter stamina prominulus ibi lobos 6 Spec. 1. P. trifuliata II. Bn., loc. cit. 

 totidem truncates effurmare videtur." (H. Bn., 7 Prodr., ii. 89. — A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., 

 loc. cit.) xii. 499, t. 24.— B. H., Gen., 312, n. 17. 



