496 NATURAL HISTORY OF PIANTS. 
late, entire, persistent ; flowers’ axillary, solitary or cymose (7rop. 
India’). 
81. Feronia Corr.'—Flowers (nearly of Zimonia) polygamous ; 
calyx small, flat, 5, 6-dentate, deciduous. Petals 4-6. Stamens 
10-12; filaments free, dilated at base; anthers oblong. Germen 
4—6-locular ; cells often incomplete ; style short, thick, oblong, fusi- 
form, stigmatiferous at apex, deciduous (?); ovules in cells o, 
descending. Berry subglobose ; cortex ligneous; cells «, incom- 
plete. replete with pulp; seeds m, compressed; embryo fleshy ; 
cotyledons thick.—A spinose tree; leaves imparipinnate ; folioles 
opposite, subsessile, punctuate ; petiole sometimes winged ; flowers® 
in simple or ramified loose cymiferous racemes (Zrop. Asia’). 
82. Ægle Corr.‘—Flowers nearly of Feronia, 4—5-merous; sta- 
mens œ (30-60), free; cells of ovary o, œ-ovulate. Berry o- 
locular ; cortex ligneous; cells replete with mucus, c-spermous. 
o 2 
Seeds “ oblong, compressed ; testa woolly, mucous.”—Spinose trees ; 
leaves 3-foliolate, punctuate; flowers” in scanty axillary racemes 
» P 
(West. Trop. Africa and Asia”). 
83. Citrus L.—Flowers 5- or more rarely 4-S-merous; calyx 
cupular urceolate or more rarely subplane (Papeda). Stamens o, 
inserted round orbicular disk; filaments unequally polyadelphous, 
very rarely fasciculate, subfree (Papeda). Germen o-locular; style 
terete or obconical, often articulate at base, deciduous, stigmatiferous 
capitate subentire or lobed at apex; ovules in each cell %, 2-seriate 
inserted. Berry varying in form, corticate ; cells o, interior filled 
with piliform compressed juicy cells (springing from endocarp). 
Seeds æ, often few, horizontal or oblique, descending ; testa more 

1 Articulation often obscure, 8 In Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 222. — DC. 
2 White, rather large. Prodr., i. 538.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, ii. 
3 Spec. ad 4 Wuiaut, Il. t.42 (Microme- 255.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5513.— H. BN., Aurant., 
lum).—W sLP., Ann., vii. 534. 18, 36.—OtrIv., loc. cit., 21, 44.—B. H., Gen., 
«4 In Zrans. Linn, Soc., v.224.—DC., Prodr., 306, n. §3.—Belou Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 
i. 5388.—Spaou, Suit. à Buffon, \i,254.—Enpu., 408. 

Gen., n. 5512.—H. BN., Aurant., 18, 35. — ® Large, often globose, exterior very hard, 
O11v., loc. cit., 21, 44.—B. H., Gen., 305, n. 82. interior finally juicy. 
5 Large, externally corticate, hard. 10 White, rather large, odoriferous. 
6 White, handsome. 11 Spec. 2, 3. Wieut, Icon., t. 16.—Roxs., 
7 Spee. 1. À. elephantum Corn, loc. cit— Pl. Coromand., t. 148.— WiGuT & ABx, 
Roxg., Pl. Coromand., ii. t. 141.—Wicur & Prodr., i. 96. 
Axgn,, Prody., 1. 96. 
