M,n;iwdi(m.] XXIX. IlUTACEyE. 213 



2. IMC. crenulata (leaflets crenulated), Oliv. in Joicm. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 

 29 ? Benth. Fl. AuHr. i. 869. A glabrous shrub or tree. Leaflets usually 7 to 

 11, very oblique, from oval-oblong to oblong-elliptical, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, 2 to Sin. long, entire or obscurely crenulate. Flowers (in the 

 Philippine specimens) in terminal corymbs, much more numerous and much 

 smaller than those of M. exotica. Petals 2^ to nearly 8 lines long. Fruit 

 depressed-globular, 5 or 6 lines diameter, S-cefled, but with 8 or 4 cells abortive. 

 Seeds 1 or 2 ; cotyledons plano-convex, thick and fleshy. — Glycomim crenulata, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1868, i. 250. 



Hab.: Eastern subtropical Australia, Herb. F. v. M. 



These specimens are in fruit only, but the foliage, the inflorescence, and calyx are so precisely 

 those of the Philippine Island ones that there is little doubt that they belong to the same species. 

 The structure of the fruit is quite that of Murraya ; the cotyledons of the seed very readily 

 distinguish it from Micrmnelum, which in many respects has a similar habit and inflorescence. — 

 Benth. 



24. CLAUSENA, Burm. 



(After P. Clauson, a Danish botanist.) 



Calyx 4 or o-cleft. Petals 4 or 5, broad, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 8 or 

 10 ; filaments dilated at the base or in the middle ; anthers short. Ovary 4 or 

 5-celled, or rarely 2 or 8-celled ; style deciduous, with an entire or lobed stigma ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, collateral or superposed. Berry ovoid, oblong or globular. 

 Seeds with a membranous testa ; no albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex.— 

 Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, with alternate, usually oblique 

 leaflets. Flowers small, usually clustered in terminal or axillary panicles or 

 racemes. Berries small. 



The genus, although not large, comprises more species than any other one of the tribe 

 Aurantiete, and extends over tropical Asia and Africa ; the only Australian species known is 

 endemic. — Benth. 



1- Ca brevistyla (style short), Oliv. i/i Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 81 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 369. Apparently a shrub, glabrous, or the young branches 

 and petioles slightly pubescent. Leaflets 10 to 15, very obliquely ovate or some- 

 what rhomboidal, shortly and obtusely acuminate and emarginate, mostly 2 to 

 4in. long, membranous, often obscurely sinuate-dentate, on petiolules of about 

 2 lines. Flowers 4-merous or 5-merous, in terminal, loose, oblong or pyramidal 

 panicles. Petals about 2 lines long. Filaments thick and dilated at the base, 

 arched. Ovary glabrous or nearly so, narrowed at the base, 4 or 5-celled. Style 

 very short. Fruit not seen. 



Hab.: Hope Islands, M'Gillivray. 



The species is allied to C. heptaphylla, W. and Arn., from E. India, but the leaflets are much 

 more oblique, the style much shorter, besides minor difierences. — Benth. 



25. ATALANTIA, Corr. 



(Mythological Atalanta, the daughter of Schoeneus.) 



Calyx 3 to 5-cleft. Petals 3 to 5, imbricate in the bud. Stamens twice as 

 many or rarely more, free or irregularly united at the base ; anthers ovate or 

 oblong. Ovary 2 to 5-celled ; style deciduous, with a capitate stigma ; ovules 

 solitary or 2 in each cell, collateral or rarely superposed. Berry globular, with a 

 thickened rind, 1 to 5-seeded. Seeds obovoid or oblong, testa membranous? 

 albumen none ; cotyledons flat or convex, more or less fleshy. — Shrubs or small 



