406 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
These have under their 
Limonia 
cells of which contain one or two seeds. 
coats a fleshy embryo, with superior exalbuminous radicle. 
consists of fragrant shrubs of tropical Asia, the organs of which are 
covered with pellucid' glandular points, prominent or depressed. 
The twigs are often transformed into spines. The alternate exsti- 
pulate leaves are trifoliolate or imparipinnate. 
We have attached as a section to the genus Limonia, Glycosmis, 
only essentially differing from it by one character: the ovary, gene- 
rally with uniovulate cells, is not articulated, but continuous with 
the base of the style. 
L. trifoliaté (fig. 454), a small thorny Chinese shrub, has also 
been generically distinguished under the name of 
Triphasia ;* that also we can only preserve as a sec- 
tion. Thus limited, the genus contains six or seven 
Limonia (Triphasia) 
trifoliala. 
species.’ 
Beside Limonia are placed a certain number of 
other very nearly allied genera, of which several 
have been perhaps uselessly detached from it. These 
are: Murraya, whose pentamerous flowers have a 
quinquefid or quinquepartite calyx, ten stamens 
with linear subulate filaments, ovary cells one- or 
two-ovulate, and whose unarmed branches bear 
pinnate leaves and flowers disposed in terminal cymes ; J/ccromelum, 
which, with the same leaves and inflorescence, have pentamerous 
flowers, a five-lobed or entire calyx, petals valvate or nearly so, ten 
stamens, two superposed ovules in each cell, and an embryo remark- 
able for its contortuplicate cotyledons ; C/ausena, having also pin- 
nate leaves, and whose flowers, disposed in simple or compound 
ramified racemes, are 3—5-merous, with a lobed or partite calyx, 
petals imbricated or subvalvate, diplostemonous androceum, staminal 

Fie, 454. 
Long. sect. of 
flower (2). 

1 Reservoirs of a very fragrant oil generally 
essential. 
2 Corr, in Ann. Mus. vi. 384. — DC. 
Prodr., i, 538. — Enpu., Gen. n. 5502. — 
H. BN., Aurant., 13, 31; in Adansonia, x. 
319.—Otiv., in Journ. Linn, Soc., v. Suppl. 
17, 36.—B. H., Gen., 303, n. 71.—Toluifera 
Lour., F1. Cochinch. (ex H. BN., in Adansonia, 
x. 319).—Myxospermum RŒM., Syn., 40. — 
? Dioxippe Ram., loc. cit.—Chionotria JACK, 
Mal. Mise. (ex Hook, Comp. to Bot. Mag., i. 
155). 
3 L., Mantiss., 237.—BurM., Fl. Ind., t. 35, 
fig. i—Jaca., Ze. Rar.,t. 463,—ANDR., Bot. 
Repos., t. 143. 
4 Lour., Fl. Cochinch., 152.—DC., Prodr., i. 
535.—Enpu., Gen., n. 5500.—H. BN., Awrant., 
14, 30; in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., v. 152; in 
Adansonia, x. 319,—Oniv., in Journ. Linn. 
Soc., v. Suppl., 13. 
5 RHEEDE, Hort, Malab., iv. t. 14.—Roxs., 
Pl. Coromand., i. t. 84, 85-87. — Wiqur & 
ARN., Prodr., i. 91, 92.—Wieut, Til., t. 41.— 
Miq., L/. Ind.-Bat., Suppl. i. 500.—Tuw., 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 45, 405.—WALP., Ann,, vii, 
532 (Glycosmis), 533. 
