466 Rure zx. 
toti circumpositum cumque ipso concretum , quoniam observatur in pistillo secto 
substantia duplex, altera centralis, carnosa, grisea, loculis excavata , altera priori 
circumposita , basi incrassata, glanduloso-carnosa , palïide lutescens. Non-ne hinc 
ovarit stylique unitas, loculis intrà discum arcte coërcitis et sic coalescentibus ? 
Quo charactere Cyminosma recedit à plerisque Rutaceis multicoccis, quibus acce- 
dit contrà situ ovulorum alterius ascendentis, alterius appensi (1). 
DIOSME Æ. 
DIOSMEÆ r1eR#QUE. R. Brown.—RUTACEZÆ r1eræqQue. DC. prodr. 
Flores hermaphroditi, regulares aut irregulares. Calix 4-5-divi- 
sus. Petala , nunc totidem , libera vel in corollam pseudo-monope- 
talam coalita, nunc rarissimè nulla ; præfloratio plerumque contorto- 
convolutiva, rarissimè subvalvata. Stamina petalorum numero 
æqualia vel dupla , aut abortu pauciora , hypogyna rariüs-ve peri- 
gyna. Discus seu urceolus pistillum cingens , liber aut calicis basi 
adnatus, sæpè nullus. Ovaria sessilia aut gynophoro imposita, nu- 
mero petalorum æqualia aut pauciora , nunc inter se connata , nunc 
omnind aut partim distincta : ovula in singulis 2 juxtaposita aut 
superposita , rarissimè 4. Styli ovariorum numero, omnind aut apice 
tantüm connati. Stigma æquale aut latius , sulcis lobis-ve tot quot 
styli exstant notatum. Fructus è capsulis 5-1 conflatus , iisdem, vel 
distinctis multiplex, vel rariüs inter se coalitis quasi simplex. En- 
docarpium à sarcocarpio introrsüm dehiscente 2-valvi emnind solu- 
bile, ipsum 2-valve, valvis basi hiantibus et membranâ connexis 
seminiferà. Semina geminata aut solitaria , integumento testaceo. 
(1) Ovula tamen solitaria , pendula, teste Lindley , qui prætereà stigma bilobum 
lobis obsolete fissis describit, $Staminum situm confirmat, et, auctoritate Robert 
Brown fretus , GELAM /anceolatam Loureir., Ximeniæ dubie consociatam à Wäill- 
denow et de Candolle, certe conspecificam asserit Jamboliferæ pedunculatæ L., 
quamuwis drupâ uniloculari instructam ex auctoris descriptione. Vid. Report on the 
new or rare plants which have flowered in the garden of the horticult. Soc. at 
Chiswick , by J. Lindley. (From the hortic. Transact., 1825, p. 10.) 
