476 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
folioles often opposite, like the whole “plant pellucid-punctuate, 
aromatic ; flowers in axillary or terminal racemes, sometimes spici- 
form, oftener ramified cymiferous; pedicels usually articulate (4/7 
Tropical and Subtropical Regions, rarely Temperate). See p. 396. 
42. Evodia Forsr.—Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 4, 
5-merous (nearly of Zanthovylon); sepals decussate-alternate or 
quincuncially imbricated, persistent. Petals 4, 5, much larger, 
valvate or subvalvate. Stamens double in number to petals (J/e/i- 
cope, Pelea’), or equal (Huevodia,’ Boninia’), inserted below disk, 
much varied in form (either subentire, more or less adnate to car- 
pels, or 4, 5-lobed ; lobes more or less prominent between stamens), 
either all fertile, or sometimes but very rarely oppositipetalous, 
sterile (Broméya’) and much smaller than fertile. Germen free; cells 
4, 5, oppositipetalous, entirely (Melicope, Euevodia) or at apex only 
(Pelea, Boninia, Boymia’) free ; style inserted at apical depression 
of germen, stigmatiferous 4, 5-lobed at apex; ovules in cells 2, 
descending; micropyle extrorse, superior. Other characters of 
Zanthoxylon. Carpels in fruit free, dry, 1, 2-valved, or capsule 
4, 5-locular, with base of stamens and calyx stipate at base, 
loculicidal from apex, scarcely to middle; endocarp separating ; 
seeds oblong; testa thick black; embryo albuminous; coty- 
ledons elliptical ; radicle superior.—Trees or shrubs; leaves oppo- 
site or sometimes (Pe/eastrum") alternate, petiolate, simple, punc- 
tuate, penninerved; flowers in terminal and axillary bracteate 

1 Char. Gen, t. 7 (nec G#RTN.).—LamMK., 
Dict., ii. 38; Suppl. ii. 292; ZI. t. 811.— 
DC., Prodr., ii, 88, 90.—A. Juss,, in Mém. 
Mus., xii. 484, t. 22, fig. 28.—ENDL., Gen., n, 
5996.—B. H., Gen., 296, 994, n. 46.—H. By., 
in Adansonia, x. 325 (incl.: Astorganthus 
Enpu., Aubertia Bory, Boninia P1., Boymia 
A. Juss. Brombya F. Murtt., Entoganum 
Banks, Lepta Lour., Megabothrya Hance, 
Melicope Forst., Pelea A. Gray, Philagonia 
Bu., Tetradium Lovn.). 
2 Char, Gen., t. 28.—J., Gen., 429, 453.— 
DC., Prodr., i. 7238.—ENDL.,, Gen., n. 5995.— 
B. H., Gen. 295, 990, n. 45.— ÆEntoganum 
Banks, in Gertn. Fruct., i. 331, t. 68.—Astor- 
ganthus ENvDL,, mss. (ex Hoox., Zcon., t, 585).— 
Aubertia Bory, Voy., i. 356. 
3 À, Gray, in Unit. St. Explor. Exp., Bot. 
i, 339, t. 35-38.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 
321. 
4F. Muezz., Fragm., v. 4.—B. H., Gen., 
991, n. 45-a. 
5 Of which section are Ævodia (Forsr.) 
and Zepta Lour., Fl. Cochinch., 82, Am- 
pacus RuMPH., Herb, Amboin., ii. 186, t. 62 
(cfr. Tr. & Pu, in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 5, xiv. 
308, not.). 
6 Pr, in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 5, xiv. 309.— 
H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 325. 
7 À. Juss., in Mém. Mus., xii. 507, t. 25, 
fig. 39.—Sre8. & Zuce., Fl. Jap., i. 50, t. 21. 
8 Leaves also imparipinnate in Philagonia 
bu., Bijdr., 250 (2. Roxburghiana), Mega- 
bothrya Hanon, in Walp. Ann, ii. 259 (E. 
meliæfolia) and in Tetradio Lour., Fl. Co- 
chinch., 91 (Æ. fraxinifolia), whose germen, 
seated on the glandular disk, is plurilocular at 
the base (as in Pelea and Boymia) on account 
of the slightly connate carpels. 
