RUTACE. 507 
subsessile ; germens 1-locular; styles same in number, inserted at 
internal angle of germen at or slightly above base, free, capitellate 
stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell 2-5, collaterally descend- 
ing,' incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Drupes 
1-5, free, slightly fleshy ; putamen hard; embryo exalbuminous, 
fleshy ; cotyledons convolute-plicate ; radicle short, superior.—Trees 
(not bitter); branches slender; leaves alternate, simple, petiolate ; 
stipules minute, caducous; flowers in few-flowered axillary ra- 
cemes (?) ; pedicels slender, 2-bracteolate at base? (Subtrop. Australia’). 
104. Tariri Ausu.'—Flowers diccious, 3-5-merous ; petals longer 
than calyx, imbricated or subvalvate, more rarely 0. Stamens equal 
in number to petals and opposite them (sterile in female flower). 
Glands alternipetalous, equal in number to stamens, free or connate. 
Gyneceum seated on summit of disk, 2, 3-merous ; germen single, 
2-3-locular ; style erect, more or less long 2, 3-fid at apex; lobes 
recurved, inwardly stigmatiferous ; ovules in cells 2, collaterally de- 
scending ; micropyle extrorse, superior, usually blocked with thick 
obturator. Berry oliviform 1, 2-locular ; cells 1-spermous; seeds 
descending ; testa thin ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons (?) undi- 
vided, adhering to coats; position of radicle . . .?—Trees or shrubs 
usually intensely bitter; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles 
entire ; flowers’ in spikes or racemes, usually elongated pendulous 
cymiferous, terminal or leaf-opposed’ (Zrop. America’). 
105? Spathelia L..—Flowers polygamous ; receptacle convex. 
Sepals 5, usually coloured, imbricated or subovate. Petals 5, alter- 

Sub 2-seriatis. 
1 
2 A genus nearly related by its flowers to 
Picrasmaand Suriana. By 1-carpellary species, 
strongly pointing to Cneoridium, only dis- 
tinguished from it by ovules and seeds, Some- 
what related to Hypliandra by more polygamous 
species, 
# Spec. 2. F. Murtt., loc. cit. — BENTH., 
Fl. Austral., i, 374.—WaALP., Ann., vii. 540, 
4 Guian., Suppl., 37, t. 390 (1775).—TR., in 
Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 5, xv. 353.—Picramnia Sw., 
Prodr., (1783), 27; Fl. Ind. Occ., i. (1797), 
217, t. 4—ScHRE8., Gen.,n. 1517.—J., Gen., 
370.—Enpu., Gen., n. 5941.— B. H., Gen., 
315, n. 28.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, xi. tase, 1. 
5 Small, somewhat purple or virescent, 
® A genus nearly related to Spathelia, Bur- 
seraceæ, Chailletia, and 2-ovulate Euphorbiacee. 
7 Spee. ad 20. Tux. in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 
3, vil. 257.—BENTH., Sulph. Voy., Bot., 166 
(Cicca).—SrEM., Voy. Her, Bot., 95, t. 24 
(Picramnia)—Pu., in Hook, Lond, Journ., v. 
578.— Grises., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 14 (Pi- 
cramnia).—TR., loc. cit., 354 (Picramnia).— 
Watp., Ann., i. 168; iv. 429; vii. 542 (Pi- 
cramnia). 
Gen, n. 373:—J., Gen. 371.— Por., 
Dict,, vii. 309.—Lamx., Til., t. 200.—Gmrtn., 
Fruct., i. 278, t. 58.—K., in Ann. Se. Nat., 
sér. 1, ii. 357.—DC., Prodr., ii. 84.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5979.—B. H., Gen., 315.—Spathe P. 
Br., Jam., 187. 

