RUTACEÆ. 467 
23. Empleurum Sonanp.'— Flowers monœcious, apetalous, 4- 
merous. Calyx gamophyllous cupuliform-subcampanulate, 4-fid. 
Stamens 4, opposite calyx-lobes; filaments free, subulate, in male 
flower inserted below minute rudimentary gyneceum; anthers 
large, exserted, introrse; cells divergent on both sides, crowned with 
sessile gland at apex; clefts longitudinal, submarginal. Carpels in 
female flower 1 (or very rarely 2), excentric, sessile. Style of germen 
rather short, terete, curved, glabrous, stigmatiferous at apex, simple 
above, dorsally produced at apex in long rostrum ; ovules 2, inserted in 
internal angle, collaterally descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. 
Fruit long lanceolate, produced above in elongated rostrum ; endo- 
carp finally separating ; seeds 1, 2, of Diosma, nigricans glabrous.— 
An erect glabrous pellucid-punctuate shrub ; branches virgate ; leaves 
alternate, linear-lanceolate, crenulate glandular; flowers small, in 
few-flowered axillary cymes; peduncle bracteolate at base (South 
Africa’). 
24? Empleuridium Sonp.‘—“ Flowers dicecious, 4-merous ; calyx 
lobes patent, imbricated. Petals 4, deciduous. Stamens 4, inserted 
below marginal angles of explanate subquadrate disk ; filaments subu- 
late; anthers 2-dymous. Female flower ...? Fruit carpel 1, linear- 
oblong, apiculate with persistent terminal style (in male flower short, 
inserted at middle of disk); seed 1.—An undershrub, ramified from 
base ; branches slender ; leaves alternate, acicular, 3-quetrous, epunc- 
tuate; flowers axillary, solitary, minute, pedunculate ; peduncles 
2-bracteate* at base (South-western Africa’). 
25. Calodendron Tuuns.’—Flowers subregular ; sepals usually 5, 
valvate. Petals 5, alternate, elongate, unequally-patent or reflexed, 
imbricated. Stamens 10, 5 fertile, alternipetalous ; filaments free, 
glandular, inserted below shortly cupuliform disk ; anthers exserted, 
1 Ex Lamx,, Zil., t. 86.—AxT., Hort. Kew., 
ed, 1, iii, 340.—GÆRTN. F., Fruct., iii, 340.— 
Barrz, & WENDL., Diosm., t. B.—A. Juss., in 
Mém. Mus., xii. 476, t. 19, fig. 21.— DC. 
Prodr., i, 718.—SrAcH, Suit. à Buffon, ii, 334. 
—Enpt., Gen., n. 6023.—B, H., Gen., 291, n, 
25.—BerG. & Scum., Off. Gew., i. t. 2 à. 
2 Spec. 1. Æ. serrulatum Arrv., loc, cit.— 
Hany. & Son, Fl. Cap., i. 442.—WALP., 
Ann., vii. 515.—Diosma ensata Tuuns., F1. 
Cap., 226. 
3 Fl. Cap., i. 442.—Haryv., Thes. Cap., t. 
77.—B. H., Gen., 291, n. 26. 
4 “Gen, multis notis Celastrineis accedens.” 
(B. H.). 
§ Spec. 1. Æ. juniperina SOND., loc. cit, 
5 Nov. Gen., ii. 41; F1. Cap., 197.—Lamx., 
in Journ, Hist. Nat., i. 56, t. 3—DC., Prodr., 
i, 712.—A. Juss., in Mém. Mus., xii. 469, t. 
19, fig. 15.—Spacnu, Suit. à Buffon, ii. 326.— 
Exoz., Gen., n. 6014.—B. H., Gen., 288, n. 16. 
—Pallasia Hourt., Pl. Syst., iii. 319, t. 22. 
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