Mdicop,'.] XXIX. RUTACE^. 199 



panicles, length of the petioles, pedicellate. Sepals 4, obtuse, minute. Petals 

 4, about 4 lines long, linear, white, thick, the apex incurved, Stamens 8; 

 filaments broad at the base, very nearly glabrous. Anthers oblong-rotund. Disk 

 a yellow ring. Ovary glabrous, 4-celled. Style hairy on the lower half. Stigma 

 shortly 4-lobed. 



Hab.: Summit of Bartle Frere, Bellenden Ker Exped. 1899. 



7. IMC. pubescens (pubescent). Bail. Bot. Bull. No. 3. A small tree, with 

 Ught-coloureld bark, the branchlets somewhat flattened and usually opposite, the 

 whole leafy part of the plant and inflorescence softly pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 3-foliolate, often on lateral shoots reduced to a single leaflet or pair of leaflets on 

 a petiole of ^in. or less. The pairs of leaves sometimes, but not always, of 

 unequal size ; leaflets sessile, lanceolate, glabrous except the veins on the upper 

 surface, often sharply acuminate, the lateral ones unequal-sided at the base, 3 to 

 7in. long, 1 to 2Jin. broad; veins prominent on both sides, the primary ones 

 looping some distance from the margin, margins entire ; oil dots minute, not 

 numerous. Flowers in lateral and axillary triohotomous cymes ; peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles ,• flowers on short pedicels, calyx-lobes 4, nearly 

 orbicular, about 1 line. Petals 4, valvate, recurved when the flower is fully 

 opened, thick linear, with inflexed tips, about 8 or 4 lines long, disk entire, 

 glabrous. Stamens 8, those opposite the petals shorter than the other four, 

 filaments much dilated and ciliate in the lower half. Style terminal, rather 

 thick, long as the stamens, hairy in the lower half. Stigma small, slightly 

 lobed. Ovary glabrous, 4-celled, 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit not yet collected. 



Hab. Yandiua and top o.f Blaokall Bange, March, 1891 (in full flower), Field Naturalists. 



11. EVODIA, Forst. 



(Sweet smell of foliage.) 



Flowers more or less unisexual. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, 

 valvate or very slightly imbricate. Disk sinuate. Stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments 

 subulate or slightly dilated. Ovary of 4 or 5 carpels, usually distinct and style- 

 like in the male flowers, more or less united in the females, styles attached below 

 the middle, more or less united with a 4 or S-lobed stigma. Ovules 2 in each 

 carpel, collateral or superposed. Fruit separating more or less completely into 

 coriaceous 2-valved cocci, the endocarp separating elastieally. Seeds with a 

 orustaceous testa, usually smooth and shining ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight 

 with ovate cotyledons. — Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, usually 

 digitately 3-foliolate or pinnate, rarely 1-foliolate or simple ; leaflets entire, often 

 large. Cymes or panicles axillary or rarely terminal. Flowers small. 



A considerable genus, spread over tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacific and of the 

 Madagascar group ; all but one of the Australian species are endemic. The genus differs from 

 Melicope chiefly in the stamens equal to, not double, the number of petals, from Zanthoxylwm ' 

 by the leaves all or mostly opposite, generally by the more valvate petals and mora united styles, 

 besides minor characters offering occasional exceptions. — Ben th. 



Trees. 

 Petioles 1 to 2in. long. Leaflets IJ to Sin. long, lanceolate, central one 



somewhat petiolulate. Cymes axillary or lateral ; flowers crowded. 



Sepals small, orbicular. Petals about 2 lines long, glabrescent. 



Filaments eiliate, slightly dilated 1. E. micrococca. 



Petioles 5 to 6in. long, minutely pubescent. Leaflets sessile, 6 to lOin. 



long, thin-chartaoeous, shortly acuminate. Cymes many-flowered. 



Petals deciduous. Carpels glabrous on the outside, puberulent inside 2. E. xanthori/lnides. 

 Petioles 2 to Sin. long, semi-cylindrical. Leaflets 4 to lOin. long, thin 



coriaceous. Cymes umbellulate, many-flowered. Sepals orbicular. 



Petals reddish outside, densely bearded. Filaments glabrous. Style 



short, glabrous. Ovary densely tomentose . :-i. A'. Bonwiekii. 



