RUTACEZ. 483 
shrub, pellucid-punctuate ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; rachis 
thinly winged; folioles opposite, œ-jugate, linear-oblong, sessile, 
obtuse, entire; flowers small, in axillary or terminal subdichotomous 
or by abortion 1-parous, sometimes foliate, subsessile, ebracteolate 
(Mexico'). 
56. Megastigma Hook. r.’—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
small, conical. Sepals 4, small, acute. Petals 4, longer, membra- 
nous, imbricated. Disk thick, sometimes subglobose, attenuated at 
base, fleshy-glandular. Stamens 8, inserted below disk, of which 4 are 
oppositipetalous, shorter; filaments free, glabrous; anthers subcor- 
date, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 2-locular, 2-dymous (or more rarely 
3-locular) ; style short, afterwards dilated in large subglobose, ob- 
securely 2, 3-lobed stigmatiferous head; ovules in each cell 2, sub- 
collaterally descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit .. .?— 
Unarmed shrubs, glandular-punctuate, odoriferous ; leaves alternate, 
imparipinnate ; folioles »-jugate, subopposite ; flowers* in compound 
cymiferous racemes; pedicels slender, bracteolate at base (J/ewico, 
Guatemala’). 
57. Pilocarpus Vanu.’—F lowers usually hermaphrodite; recep- 
tacle short, usually depressed. Calyx short, 4-5-dentate or sub- 
entire. Petals 4, 5, longer, 3-agonal, patent, reflexed, præfloration 
valvate or slightly imbricated. Stamens same in number, alternate ; 
filaments inserted outside below annular often thick accrescent disk, 
free, subulate, incurved in bud; anthers short, rather wide, introrse, 
versatile, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, 5, oppositipetalous, free or connate 
at base, usually immersed in disk; styles same in number, free to a 
greater or less height, afterwards in erect column, stigmatiferous, 
capitate-5-lobed dilated at apex ; ovules in each germen 2, subhori- 
zontal or descendent ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Cocci 4, 5, 
distinct, loculicidally 2-valved ; endocarp solute, elastically 2-valved. 
Seeds usually solitary, ovoid; embryo exalbuminous, fleshy ; radicle 
short, retracted between thick cotyledons. — Pellucid-punctuate 

1 Spec. 1. P. boronioides Hook, F., loc. cit. fig. 29.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffor, ii. 344,— 
2 Gen., 299, n, 57. ENDL., Gen., n. 5999.—A. S. H., in Bull. Soc. 
3 Small, white. Philom. (1823), 130 ; Pl. Rem. Brés., i. 145, t. 
4 Spee. 2. H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 331. 16; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 82, t. 17.—B. H., Gen., 
5 Eelog., i. 29, t. 10.—DC., Protr., i. 728.— 299, n. 59. ‘ 
A. Juss., in Mém. Mus., xii. 488, t. 22, 
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