CUiusena] 



XXV. RUTACE.E 



115 



A shrub or small tree, leaflets 7-13, chartaceous, alternate, 1A— 3 in. long, 

 base very oblique, edge wavy, shining, glabrous on both sides. Fl. 5-merous, 

 greenish-white, laxly arranged in a terminal corymbose panicle, petals 

 glabrous, thin. ,t in long. Ovary 2-5-celled, glabrous, tuberculate. Somewhat 

 resembles Micromclum pubescens. 



Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, from North Kanara southwards. Fl. H. S. 



5. C. Willdenowii, W. et A. Prodr. : Trimen Handb. Ceylon, i. 222. Vera. 

 Kat Vepillei, Tam. ; Potti, Mai. 



A shrub or small tree, young shoots pubescent, leaflets 7-15, membranous, 



Fig. 55. Clausena Willdenowii, W. et A. i. 



1.1-2.'. in. long. Fl. l—Vinei-mis, white, in slender simple axillary racemes, 

 shorter tliau leaves. Ovary on a short narrow gynoph"iv. -li-ln ly l-o-lobed at 

 tip, l-5-celled, fruit globose, J-.J iu. diam, 



Evergreen f"iv~i~ of ti„' Western Ghats from Sattara southwards, Sikkim, 

 Naga hills, Burma, Ceylon. Fl. II. s. Bedd. PI. Sylv. Manual t. vii. p. 8, represents 

 the ovarj as hairy. The following Eastern species with alternate leaflets belong to 

 tlii- section— a. i'l. in terminal panicles: 6. C. heptaphylla, W. el A. Lower Bengal 

 Khasi hills, Chittagong, Burma. Glabrous, leaflets 5-11, equal or slighth oblique 

 .i- base, 2-6 in. long. T. C. macrophylla. Book. til. Tenasserim. Softlj villous, 

 leaflets equal or slightly oblique at base, 5-7 in. long. 8. c. Wallichii, Oliver. Burma. 

 Leaflets 18 17, glabrous, rhomboid, crenulate, 2 >ng. b. J/l.inaxillar 



'■>. c. suffruticosa, W. .-t A.., Chittagong, Khasi hills, China. A low undershrub, softly 

 tomentose, leaflets 5 L7,oblique,8 I in. long, 



