RUTACE A. 481 
at internal angle of germen above the middle, afterwards cohering 
among themselves in a thick, obovoid, stigmatiferous mass, reflexed, 
thickened at apex. Fruit cocci 8, rostrate at apex, 2-valved; endo- 
carp solute; seeds oblong; embryo ...?—A small glabrous tree, 
glandular-punctulate, and fragrant; leaves alternate, petiolate, 3- 
foliolate, punctulate; flowers' in long pedunculate axillary cymes, 
often 2, 3-chotomous, few-flowered ; pedicels foliaceous, bracteate’ 
(Jamaica). 

52? Melanococca BL —Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle short. 
Calyx short, 5, 6-fid, valvate, persistent. Petals same in number, 
obtuse. Stamens 5, 6, alternipetalous, outwardly inserted below 
thick depressed annular disk; filaments free, short; anthers in- 
trorse, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, 6, more or less coherent by short 
laterally stigmatiferous styles; ovules in each germen solitary. 
Drupes 1-4, oblique, globose, succulent ; putamen unequally lenti- 
cular, bony, tuberculate or rugose. Seed compressed-reniform, 
sinuous umbilicate; testa membranous; albumen thin; embryo 
curved; cotyledons subovate, flat; radicle cylindrical, ascending, 
slightly shorter.—A small tree, simply ramified ; branches, leaves, and 
inflorescence tomentose ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; folioles 
4-7-jugate, subopposite, entire, epunctuate, veined ; flowers in axil- 
lary and terminal ramified panicles’ (W. Guinea’). 
53. Comeurya H. By.’—Flowers hermaphrodite (?); receptacle 
shortly cupuliform or pateriform, inwardly clothed with obscure 
crenate disk. Sepals 5, imbricated, and petals same in number, 
alternate, longer, at apex slightly imbricated or contorted, inserted 
at margin of receptacle. Stamens 10, 5 are oppositipetalous, shorter, 
inserted with perianth; filaments filiform ; anthers introrse, linear- 
oblong, versatile, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, oppositipetalous, free ; germens 

1 Whitish-lutescent, rather large, fragrant, 
2 A genus made into an order as a very ano- 
malous medium between Rufacee and Ochnacee, 
on account of the spiral insertion of the leaves of 
perianth and the indefinite number of stamens. 
All parts of the plant glandular and odoriferous, 
3 Spec. 4. P. pteleoides War. loc. cit, — 
Pachysligma pteleoides Woox., in Bot. May. t. 
4470. 
4 Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 
—B. H., Gen., 298, n. 52. 
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236 (Anacardiacee), 
5 A genus, on account of little known flowers 
very uncertain, ‘“‘characterib. permult, Zan- 
thoxylo quadrat” (B. H.), but with inodorous 
and epunctuate leaves. It also seems to bear 
some aflinity to the Æwycomæ among the 
Simarubee as to the structure of leaves and 
flowers, but the plant is not bitter, Flowers 
generally polygamous, pericarp epunctuate, 
Chiefly from description of BLUME. 
5 Spec. 1. WM. tomentosa Bu., loc. cit. 
7 In Adansonia, x. 329. 
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