50 aurantiacejE. 



Leaves pinnate or unifpliolate. Panicles small, mostly axillary. Ovnle 



. solitary. Stigma persistent • " o ^' ^^^''°^^^- 



Leaves simple. Mowers in small axillary clusters. Ovules usually 3, 



collateral •4- Atalantia. 



1. MTJRBAYA, Linn. 



Calyx 5-lobed or 5-cleft. Petals 5, free. Stamens 10, free. Ovary raised 

 on a short disk, 2-celled (sometimes 3- to 5 -celled), with 2 ovules in each, 

 either superposed or rarely collateral. Style as long or longer than the ovary, 

 and continuous with it. Beri-y 1- or 2-seeded. — Unarmed shrubs or small 

 trees. Leaves pinnate. Flowers in terminal corymbs. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus, 

 - 1. M. exotica, Linn. ,- W. and Am. Trod. M. Penins. i. 94 ; Wight, Ic. 

 t. 96. A glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaflets 5 to 7, alternate, cuneate- 

 obovate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, f to 1^ in. long, coriaceous and shining. 

 Flowers of a pure white, very fragi-ant, in compact terminal sessile corymbs. 

 Petals near ^ in. long, erect at the base, spreadmg in the upper half. Ovary 

 2-celled. Berry globular, usually 1-seeded. 



In Hongkong, perhaps only where planted, Champion. Generally cultivated in tropical 

 Asia, but believed to be areal native of S. China and N. E. India. 



2. CLAUSENA, Buim. 

 (CooMa, Soimer.) 



Calyx 4p or 5-cleft. Petals 4 or 5, ovate, concave. Stamens 8 or 10. 

 Ovary raised on a short disk, 4- or 5-ceUed, with 2 ovules in each cell, usually 

 superposed, rarely collateral. Style short, deciduous. Berry usually 4- or 5- 

 celled, with 1 seed in each cell. — Small trees. Leaves pinnate. Flowers in 

 terminal panicles or loose racemes. 



A genus of several species, from tropical Asia or Africa. 



1. C. 'Wampi, Oliv. MS. A tree, with the young branches, petioles, 

 and inilorescence covered with minute asperities, but otherwise glabrous. 

 Leaflets 7 tq 9, usually alternate, very obliquely ovate, obtuse or obtusely acu- 

 minate, 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers small, w^hite, crowded on the smaller branches 

 of rather large terminal broad panicles. - Petals scarcely 2 lines long. Ovary 

 villous. Berry globular, at most 1 in. long. — Cookia TTampi, Blanco, Fl. FiUp. 

 358. Cookia punctata, Ketz; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 95. 



Cultivated in Hongkong, as in other parts of tropical Asia, for its fruit, known under the 

 Xiame oi Whamnee. (,Wiiinff-Pi, Roxb.). It is believed, however, to be really native in S. China. 



3. GLYCOSMIS, Corr. 

 : Sepals usually 5. Petals as many, free. Stamens twice as many, free ; 

 the anthers often tipped with a gland. Ovai-y raised on a short disk, usually 

 5-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. Style conical, very short, thick, 

 continuous with the ovary and persistent. Ben-y 1- or 2-seeded, crowned 

 by the stigma. — Shrubs or trees, without thorns. Leaves pinnate and simple 

 (unifoliolate) on the same stem. Flowers small, in axillary or rarely terminal 

 short panicles. 

 A small genus, dispersed over tropiqal Asia and Australia, with perhaps one Afiican species. 



