RUTACEÆ. 421 
X. CNEORUM SERIES (Fr. Cumélée). 
The flowers of Cneorum' (figs. 493-496) are regular and herma- 
phrodite, in four or more frequently in three parts. In the latter 

Fie. 496. 
Fra, 493. 
Fower, the perianth 
taken away. 
Fructiferous and floriferous 
inflorescence, 
Cneorum tricoceum, 

Fie, 495. 
Long. sect. of flower (5). 
case their convex receptacle bears, first, three sepals united below 
for a very short distance, and early ceasing to touch in the bud, 
then three alternate petals, longer, imbricated (or 
rarely contorted) in præfloration. 
ceptacle thickens into a glandular disk, below which 
three alternipetalous depressions are seen, in which 
the stamens are inserted, each formed of a free, sub- 
ulate filamenf, and a two-celled, introrse anther, 
dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. 
ceum, borne by the summit of the receptacle, is 
composed of an ovary with three oppositipetalous 
Cneorum tricoccum, 
Higher, the re- 
The gyne- 

Fie, 494. 
Diagram, 
cells, dorsally separated by three deep grooves, sur- 
mounted by an erect style dilated above into three stigmatiferous 
lobes. 
In the internal angle of each cell two descending campylo- 

trifoliolate or imparipinnate. The flowers are 
united in large ramified racemes of axillary and 
terminal cymes; some ten species of thein are 
known, natives of the tropical regions of the two 
Americas. (H. B., Pl. Æquin., 1. 210, t. 59-62.— 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen, et Spec., vii. 42.— A. Juss., 
in Mém. Mus., xii. 501.—Grises., Fl. Brit. 
W.-Ind., 138.—Watv., Rep., i. 519; Ann. i. 
156; vii. 541.) 
1 Cneorum L., Gen., n. 48.—J., Gen., 369.— 
Laux., Dict., i. 568; Suppl., ii. 46; Z/Z., t. 27. 
—K., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 1. ii. 357. —DC., 
Prodr., ii. 83.— ENDL, Gen., n. 5954.—PAvyER, 
Organog., 100, t. 23.—B. H., Gen., 311, n. 11. 
—AG., Theor. Syst., t. 18, fig. 18, 19.—LEM. & 
Dene, Tr, Gén., 368.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 
317.— Chamelea T., Inst.,651, t. 421.-—ADANs., 
Fam. des PL, ii, 369,—GÆR1TN., Fruct, i. 342, 
t. 70, 
