RUTACEZ. 487 
5-valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; filaments inserted below 10-cos- 
tate disk, free, pilose or scantily granulose-glandular; anthers in- 
trorse, shortly apiculate, longitudinally rimose. Germen conical, 
5-locular; cells oppositipetalous, l-ovulate; ovule descending ; 
micropyle extrorse, superior; raphe more or less long, free; style 
small, erect, 5-sulcate, minute, stigmatiferous at apex. Drupe dry, 
3—d-locular ; seeds solitary in cells; testa crustaceous; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons foliaceous, slightly longer and 
wider than radicle. Other characters of Acronychia.—Glabrous 
shrubs ; leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved, pellucid- 
punctuate ; flowers small, in terminal ramified cymiferous corymbi- 
form clusters! (Australia, N. Caledonia’). 
64. Skimmia THuxs.®—Flowers polygamous-dicecious, 4, 5-me- 
rous; receptacle short, convex. Sepals subfree or connate at base, im- 
bricated. Petals longer, imbricated or subvalvate. Stamens alter- 
nating with petals, equal to them in number ; filaments free ; anthers 
(effete in female flowers) introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in 
male flower) surrounded by base of disk, lobed between stamens ; cells 
2—5 ;* style terminal, sometimes very short, at apex stigmatiferous, 
more or less dilated, 2-5-lobed. Ovule solitary in cell,’ at internal 
angle, descending, anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Drupe 
glabrous ;’ mesocarp pulpy; pyrenas 2-5, scarious or cartilaginous. 
Seed solitary in pyrena, descending; albumen fleshy; embryoes 
1- © ;* cotyledons oblong; radicle terete superior.—Glabrous ever- 
green shrubs, in all parts glandular-punctuate; leaves alternate, 
petiolate, simple, entire, coriaceous, exstipulate ; flowers’ in terminal 
ramified cymiferous racemes (Cextro-eastern Temp. Asia”). 

1 A genus certainly allied to Skimma Aco- 
nychia (of which perhaps it is a section), dif- 
fering principally in number of floral organs 
and in solitary ovules, 
2 Spec. 1, 2. 
3 Fl. Jap, 62.—J., Gen., 425.—GÆRTN. F., 
Fruct., iii, 242, t. 225.—Porr., Dict., vii. 221; 
Suppl., v. 161—DC., Prodr., ii. 18.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5712.—B. H. Gen,, 302, 992, n. 68.— 
Laureola RœM., Syn, Hesp., '74—Anquetilia 
Done. in Voy. Jacquem., Bot., 161, t. 161. 
4 Alternating with stamens, equal in number 
to them. 
° Ex A. Gray (fid. B. H., Gen., 992), 1-5. 
5 Funicle short, thick; endostome rather 
long, tubular dilated beyond exostome. 
7 Outwardly glandular-punctuate, usually red. 
8 Whence many little plants spring from one 
pyrena (whence perhaps it bas been considered 
polyspermous), as in most Awrantiee, to which it 
is nearly allied. 
% Congested, whitish or virescens, sometimes 
outwardly purplish, inodorous. 
10 Spec. 4, very varied, (K=MPF., Amen., 
779 (Sin-San v. Mijama-Skimmi).— Banxs, 
Icon, Kempf., t. 5.—DC., Prodr., i. 536, n. 2 
(Limonia).—Watt., Pl. As. Rar., iii. t. 245.— 
LEM., in Ill. Hort, (1854), t. 13.— Bot. Mag., 
t. 4719.— Watp., Rep., i. 541; v. 404; Ann. 
vii. 931. 
