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ORDER XXVI. AURANTIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, abounding in glands, full of volatile oil; 
leaves alternate, usually compound, jointed with the petiole, 
which is often winged: calyx urceolate, or campanulate, 3-5. 
toothed: petals 3-5, broad at the base, occasionally distinet, or 
slightly combined, inserted outside a disk, imbricated in xstiva- 
tion: stamens inserted on the disk, and equal in number to the 
petals, or some multiple of them: filaments flattened at the base, 
distinct or in bundles; anthers bursting inwards: ovary many-+ 
celled; style 1: stigma slightly divided: fruit pulpy, surround. 
ed by a thick rind full of oily receptacles: seeds solitary or nue 
merous, usually pendulous; albumen none, 
GENUS I. ATALANTIA, 
Monadelphia Octandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Atalanta, daughter of Schenus, for whose story, 
see Ovid Met. VIII. book 4. 
Gen. Cuar. Thorny shrubs with simple leaves, and axillary 
and terminal flowers: filaments united below into a tube: ovary 
globular, usually 4-celled: cells 2-ovuled: style as long as the 
staminal tube: stigma 3—4-lobed, very globose, 3-4-celled, 3-4» 
seeded. ; 
(1) A. monopnytia. (Dec. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 91.—Dee. prod. I. p. 535. 
Syn. Limonia monophylla, Linn. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 378,— 
Turrea virens, Koen.—Trichilia spinosa, Willd. Dec. prod. I. p. 
623. : 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IV. t. 12.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 65. f. L— 
Rumph. Amb. II, t, 31.—Roxb. Cor. I. t. 82. 
Spec. Cuar. Small tree: thorns small: leaves ovate or ob« 
long : racemes short, sessile: pedicels long, slender; flowers 
white, 
- Malabar and Coromandel, flowering in November, 
— (2) A. FLORIBUNDA, (RW) . 
Ident. Wight's Icon. IV. p. 16. 
Engray. Wight’s Icon, t. 1611, 
