Melicope.] XXIX. RUTACE^. 197 



endocarp cartilaginous or horny, separating. Seeds usually solitary ; testa 

 crustaceous, shining ; albumen fleshy, embryo straight or slightly curved, with 

 oblong or ovate cotyledons. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate, or (in 

 species not Australian) 1-foliolate or simple. Flowers rather small, in terminal 

 or axillary cymes or panicles. 



Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, there are 2 from New Zealand and a few 

 from the Pacific Islands. F. v. Mueller proposes to unite Melicope with Evodia, but the double 

 number of stamens is a more constant character than many others distinguishing the received 

 genera of Zanthoxylece. — Benth. 



Leaves of a single leaflet. Petiole short. Petiolule scarcely any. 

 Peduncles axillary, often very short, bearing often many flowers, on 

 pedicels of about 6 lines . 1. lU. Fareana. 



Leaves frequently of 5 leaflets, 2 rather distant pairs and a terminal one. 



Panicles terminal. Filaments glabrous. Cocci transversely wrinkled 2. M, neurococca. 



Leaves of 3 leaflets, rarely reduced to the terminal one. Panicles 



terminal or in the upper axils. Filaments ciliate. Cocci divaricate 3. M. erythrococca. 



Leaves of 3 leaflets, terminal one often 5in. long. Panicle terminal, 

 about half as long as the petiole. Flowers few. Pedicels long as 

 flowers 4. J/. Broadbentiana. 



Leaves of 3 leaflets, from 5 to lOini long. Petioles shorter than leaflets. 

 Panicles axillary. Pedicels short. Petals minutely pubescent out- 

 side. Filaments ciliate 5. M. australasica. 



Leaves of 3 leaflets, emarginate, subcoriaceous. Sepals minute. Petals 

 thick, with incurved tips. Filaments broad, nearly glabrous. Disk 

 yellow. Ovary glabrous. Style hairy on the lower half 6. 31. chooreechillum. 



Leaves of 3 or reduced to a single leaflet, 3 to Tin. long, pubescent. 

 Peduncles axillary. Flowers shortly pedicellate. Sepals orbicular. 

 Petals thick, linear. Filaments and style hairy. Ovary glabrous . 7. M. pubescens. 



1. Ttl. Fareana (after M. Fare), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 101. A small tree. 

 Leaves unifoliolate, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, chartaceous, 3 to 6in. long, 1 to 

 2in. broad, obtuse or acute, nerves very slender, widely spreading oil dots 

 crowded. Petiole lin. or less long ; petiolule scarcely any. Peduncles short, 

 sometimes very short, bearing few or many flowers. Pedicels 3 to 6 lines long, 

 thickened upwards, and as the calyx glabrous. Sepals 4, rarely 5, about 2 lines 

 long, lanceolate. Petals 4, rarely 5. Slightly imbricate, the apices minutely 

 inflexed. Stamens 8, a little shorter than the petals, all fertile, filaments 

 eglandulose, coherent at the base by their dense woolly clothing, the upper part 

 glabrous. Anthers dorsally fixed, oblong-ovate, dehiscence introrse. Disk 

 annular. Carpels 4, rarely 5. Style capillary, about 2 lines long. 



Hab : Eockingham Bay, Barron Eiver, and other parts in the tropics. 



2. M. neurococca (referring to the nerves of cocci), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 

 360. A small tree, the young branches, petioles, and peduncles pubescent with 

 simple spreading hairs. Leaves of each pair generally unequal, the larger one 

 with a common petiole of 2in. or more, the other with a much shorter petiole ; 

 leaflets 3, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, mostly 3 to 4in. long, 

 glabrous above, sprinkled with a few hairs underneath. Panicles terminal, 

 trichotomous, corymbose. Sepals small, orbicular, concave, ciliate. Petals 

 about 2 lines long, glabrous, valvate or nearly so. Filaments glabrous, dilated 

 to the middle. Ovary hirsute, the carpels almost distinct from the base. Styles 

 inserted below the summit. Cocci distinct, nearly erect, broad, about 3 lines 

 long, the valves coriaceous and transversely virmkledL.-^Evodia neurococca, F. v. 

 M. Fragm. i. 28 and ii. 103. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, W. Hill and F. v. Mueller : Wide Bay and Archer's Creek, used by the 

 natives to make their spades, Leichhardt. 



Wood very hard, and close-grained, of a uniform light-yellow colour.— Bailey' >: Cat. Ql. 

 Woods No. 40. 



