RUTACEÆ. 511 
soon unequally capitate, stigmatiferous, hence sulcate. “ Drupe 
dry, nuciform, ovoid, subcompressed ; putamen osseous ; seed amphi- 
tropous, exalbuminous; embryo fleshy; cotyledons ovate, flat; radicle 
very short, superior.”—Very bitter small trees; leaves alternate, 
simple, elongated, entire, petiolate; flowers' in axillary compound 
racemes? (Piji Islands’). 
111? Keeberlinia Zucc.‘— Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
shortly conical. Sepals 4, small, free, imbricated, deciduous. Petals 
same in number, alternate, convolute-imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 
8, 2-seriate; filaments free ; anthers ovate, introrsely 2-rimose. 
Germen stipitate, 2-locular; style subulate, obtuse stigmatiferous 
at apex; ovules æ, inserted on dissepiment, œ-seriate, descendent 
or subtransverse. Fruit subbaccate, subglobose, apiculate with 
persistent style; pericarp thinly fleshy, interior pulpy, oligosper- 
mous. Seeds descending, “carinate-cochleate ; testa crustaceous, 
rugulose-striolate ; albumen thin; embryo annular; radicle supe- 
rior.’ — A subaphyllous shrub, ramified, eglandular, glabrous ; 
branches crowded, spinescent; leaves alternate, minute, squami- 
form, caducous; flowers’ in short racemes placed below apex of 
lateral branches’ (Zevas, Mexico). 
X. CNEOREA. 
112. Cneorum L.— Flowers hermaphrodite, 4- or oftener 3- 
merous ; receptacle shortly columnar, exterior glandular. Sepals 
small, more or Jess connate at base, persistent, in præfloration not 
contiguous. Petals same in number, longer, imbricated, caducous. 
Stamens equal in number to petals, and alternate with them; 
filaments inserted in pits of disk, free, subulate; anthers in- 
trorse, 2-rimose. Germen placed at summit of receptacle; cells 
prominent, opposite petals, equal in number to them ; style central, 

1 Small. 5 Small, white. 
? A genus scarcely distinct. Is it not rather 5 A genus enumerated at the end of Pitto- 
a form of Soulamea; second cell of germen sporum (ENDL) or Simarubea (B. H.). It also 
abortive ? appears somewhat allied to Zygophyllum, 
3 Spee. 1. À. soulamoides A. GRAY, loc. cit. 7 Spec. 1. K. spinosa Zucc., loc. cit.—A. 
4 In Flora (1832), Beibl., ii. 73, 74; in Gray, Pl. Wright.,i. 30; ii. 26—Watp., Rep., 
Miineh. Densk. (1838), 358.—ENDz., Gen., n, i, 258. 
5670.—B. H., Gen., 315, n. 30. 
