212 XXIX. RUTACE^. [Mwromsluw, 



ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a dry berry. Seeds usually 1 or 2 ; testa 

 membranous ; albumen none ; cotyledons leafy, very much folded. — Unarmed 

 trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate, with alternate oblique leaflets. Flowers small, 

 in terminal corymbose panicles. 



Besides the Australian species, which is widely dispersed over tropical Asia and the Eastern 

 Archipelago, only 2 are known, from Penang or the Philippine Islands. — Benth. 



1. JStm pubescens (pubescent). Blame: Olio, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 

 40 ; Benth. Fl. Amtr. i. 368. A small tree. Young branches and leaves more or 

 less pubescent. Leaflets 9 to 15, or sometimes more, from ovate to broadly 

 lanceolate, 1 to Sin. long, obtuse or shortly acuminate, oblique at the base, often 

 becoming glabrous above, pubescent underneath. Corymbs nearly sessile above 

 the last leaves, many-flowered. Calyx more or less 5-toothed. Petals about 2 

 lines long, more or less pubescent. Ovary usually hairy. Berry small, ovoid, 

 glabrous or pubescent, red when fully ripe. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown ; Albany and Cairncross Islands, and from 

 the Burdekin to Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller ; Cape Upstart and Barnard Isles, M'GiUivray ; Wide 

 Bay, Bidicill ; Bockhampton, Thozet, to the scrubs of the Brisbane Eiver. 



The various forms assumed by this species and the consequent synonymy are given in detail 

 by Oliver in the above-quoted paper. The Australian specimens belong to the small-flowered 

 variety, with rather broad leaflets, common in the S. Pacific islands, which I formerly described 

 as M. glabrescens, in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 212. — Benth. 



Wood of a light colour, and close-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. ^Voods No. 53. 



23. MURRAYA, Linn. 



(After Professor Murray.) 



Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, narrow, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 10, free ; 

 filaments subulate; anthers small. Ovary 2 to 5-celled. Style elong&ted, at 

 length deciduous, stigma capitate. Ovules solitary or 2 in each cell, superposed 

 or nearly collateral. Berry 1 or 2-seeded. Testa glabrous or woolly ; albumen 

 none ; cotyledons equal, not folded. — Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, 

 leaflets alternate, usually oblique at the base. Flowers often rather large, in 

 terminal corymbs, or few together in the upper axils. 



The genus comprises a few species, dispersed over tropical Asia and the Eastern Archipelago ; 

 neither of the Australian ones are endemic. — Benth. 



Ovary 2-celled. Flowers nearly Jin. long .... 1. Jkf. exotica. 



Ovary 5-oelled. Flowers numerous, not 3 lines long 2. M. crenulata. 



1. IME. exotica (exotic), Linn.; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 28 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 8(59. A shrub or small tree, glabrous, or the young branches 

 and petioles pubescent. Leaflets usually 5 to 7, from ovate, cuneate-obovate, or 

 almost rhomboidal to ovate-lanceolate, f to 2in. long, coriaceous and shining 

 when full-grown. Flowers white, very fragrant, in compact, terminal, sessile 

 corymbs, or few together in the common varieties. Petals nearly fin. long, erect 

 at the base, spreading in the upper half. Ovary 2-celled. Berry globular or 

 almost ovoid, usually 2-seeded. — Wight, Ic. t. 96. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; scrub near Eookhampton, Thozet. 



These specimens are past flower, and have only a few young fruits, which are more ovoid than 

 they generally are in the species, but in other respects they appear to belong as well as Brown's 

 to the few-flowered var. 2 of Oliver, or M. panimlata, Jack. The species is common from 

 N.W. India to the New Hebrides. — Benth. 



From my observations of this species at Tooloomba, the leaflets resemble those of the normal 

 form, never being so long as in the form paniculata, and in habit this plant differs from both, 

 it having a very straggling habit. 



