RUTACEÆ. 485 
filaments finally extrorse, 2-rimose. Carpels 3, 4, oppositipetalous, 
inserted within disk; germens subfree, dorsally gibbous; styles 
coalescing in common column, at apex stigmatiferous capitate, 3—4- 
lobed; ovules in germens 2, finally ascending; micropyle introrse, 
inferior. Fruit cocci 3, 4, dry, ligneous, outwardly winged upwards, 
afterwards samaroid, and finally solute; seed elongated; embryo 
albuminous ; cotyledons straight ; radicle terete.—A rather glabrous 
small tree; leaves opposite, alternate, 8-foliolate ; folioles obovate, 
obtuse, glandular-punctuate ; flowers' in pedunculate ramified ter- 
minal and axillary cymes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate (V. Granada’). 
60. Lunasia Branco.’— Flowers dicecious, usually 3-merous. 
Sepals 3, sometimes connate at base, inserted on shortly conical 
receptacle. Petals 3, alternate, longer, valvate. Stamens 3, alterni- 
petalous (in female flower sterile); filaments free, short; anthers 
short, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen free (in male flower rudimentary, 
minute); cells 3, oppositipetalous, afterwards dorsally produced in 
rather thick obtuse wing; style erect, 3-fid stigmatiferous at apex ; 
ovule solitary in each cell, inserted at internal angle, descending ; 
micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit capsular, obpyramidal ; cocci 
connate at internal angle, dorsally produced in wings, straight, 
truncate at apex (inwardly dehiscing?). Seed solitary in each 
coccus, descending, oblong ; embryo . . . ? — Furfuraceous-lepidote, 
pellucid-punctulate shrubs; branches angular; leaves alternate, long 
petiolate; petiole thick at apex; limb elongated, membranous, 
penninerved ; male flowers small, in axillary capituliferous racemes ; 
the female on alternate rachis solitary or in scanty glomerules 
(Ind. Arch.*). 
61. Hortia Vanpr.u.’—Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx obconi- 
eally cupuliform, 5-dentate or 5-crenate. Petals 5, longer, free, 
coriaceous, inwardly barbellate at middle, valvate; apex reflexed, 
Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted round angular 5-lobed disk. 
Germen free, 5-locular; cells oppositipetalous ; style short, conical, 

1 Minute. iv. 519, t. 17, 18 (ex H. By., loc. cit.).—B. H., 
2 Spec. 1. H. Pleana Tot., loc. cit.—Tr., in 
Ann, Se, Nat., sér. 5, xiv. 320,—Watp., Ann., i. 
158. 
3 Fl. de Filip., 783.—Envu., Gen, n. 
5888%.— H. By., Et. Gén. Euphorbiac., 668 
(Diosmeæ) —MueLz. ara., in DC. Prodr., xv. 
sect. J, 1259.—Ralelaisia Pu, in Hook. Jowrn., 
Gen., 299, 991, n. 58.—Mytilicoccus ZOLL., in 
Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 387. 
4 Spec. 1, 2. 
° Ex VANDELL., in Rem. Script. Pras., 188.— 
DC., Prodr., i.732.—A, Juss., in Mém. Mus., xii. 
489, t. 22, fig. 30.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, ii. 346. 
— EnpL,, Gen.,n, 6000.—B. H., Gen.,301, n, 64. 
