RUTACEZ. 491 
alternipetalous (sterile or 0 in female flower) inserted below disk ; 
receptacle beyond insertion of androceum more or less elongated and 
dilated, in female flower often thick disciferous. Germen 2-8- 
locular' (in male flower rudimentary minute, 2-8-partite or sub- 
entire) ; style very short or more or less elongated, at apex stigma- 
tiferous dilated, more or less lobed; ovules in cells 2, descending ; 
micropyle extrorse superior; fruit fleshy or coriaceous subglobose 
punctuate, 2-S-locular; cells 1, 2-spermous. Seed subangular ; 
testa coriaceous; albumen fleshy ; embryo curved cotyledons oblong 
foliaceous or linear; shrubs often sarmentose, unarmed or aculeate ; 
leaves alternate digitate 3-foliolate, or more rarely 4- -foliolate ; 
folioles entire or crenate pellucid punctuate odoriferous ; flowers’ in 
more or less ramified cymiferous axillary and terminal racemes 
(Trop. Cont. and Ins. Asia, South-East. Cont. and Ins. Africa’). 
VI. AMYRIDEZ. 
71. Amyris L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous; re- 
ceptacle short conical. Calyx gamosepalous, 4-dentate, imbricated, 
persistent. Petals 4, longer, imbricated, patent at anthesis. Sta- 
mens 8, hypogynous; filaments free ; the oppositipetalous shorter ; 
anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary or sterile in male 
flower) surrounded at base by pulvinate or thickened disk (in male 
flower 0, or small), l-locular ; style terminal short, almost wanting, 
capitate stigmatiferous at apex; ovules 2, parietally inserted, col- 
laterally descending ; micropyle extrorse superior. Drupe globose or 
ovoid aromatic oily ; putamen chartaceous, by abortion 1-spermous. 
Seed descending; testa membranous; embryo exalbuminous ; 
cotyledons thick plano-convex punctuate; radicle superior short.— 
Trees or shrubs, in all parts glandular-punctuate resinous-aromatic ; 
leaves alternate and opposite, 1-3-foliolate or imparipinnate exsti- 
pulate ; petiole and rachis sometimes marginate; folioles opposite 
petiolulate entire or crenate; flowers in terminal and axillary 

1 Cells oppositipetalous, while the gynæceum Prodr., i. 149.—WieurT, Jil., t. 66.—OLIV., 
is equal to the perianth. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 306 (part.).— Harv. & Sonp., 
? Small, whitish, lutescent, or virescent, some- J. Cap., i. 446.—K1., in Pet. Mos., Bot., i. 87 
times odoriferous. (Vepris).—Turez., in Bull. Mose. (1858), i. 
3 Spec. about 5, very variable, Wat, Pl. 413.—Watp., Ann., vii. 529, 530 (Vepris). 
As, Rar., iii. 17, t. 232.—Wiaut & ARN., 
