Peganum.] xxxiii. rutace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 487 



Leaves 2-3 in., green, pinnatifidly out into linear very narrow acute spreading lobes. 

 Flowers J-J in. diam., solitary in the axils of the branches, sessile or pedioellod. 

 Oulyx-lobes very narrow, much exceeding the corolla, persistent. Capside globose, 

 J iu. diam., and less. ' 



4. DXCTABXNUS, Linn. 



A strbng-smelling herB, shrabby below, clothed with pustular glands. 

 Lf.aves alternate, unequally pinnate; leaflets opposite, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrulate. Flowers large, white or rose-coloured, in terminal 

 racemes, pedicels bracteate, Cali/x 5-partite, deciduous. Petals 5, 4 upper 

 in pairs ascending, lower declinate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of a 

 tliick annular disk, filaments long slender somewhat thickened and very 

 glandular below the slender tip ; anther^ subglobose. Ovary shortly 

 stipitate, deeply 5 lobed, 6-celled, hispid ; style filiform, declinate, stigma 

 terminal ; ovules 3-4 in each cell, inserted on the ventral suture. Fruit of 

 5 compressed broad truncate long-beaked elastically 2-valved S-3-seeded 

 hispid carpels; endocarp horny, separable. Seeds subglobose, testa thin 

 black shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons thick, radicle short. 



1. D. albus, Linn. D. Fraxinella, Fers. ; DC- Prodr. i. 712 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, i. 920. D. himalayanus, Boyle IU. 156, t. 29. 



Tempebate Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Knnawur (and according to 

 Boyle, Junnotie in Garwhal), alt. 6-8000 ft. — Distkib. Japan, Sibeiia, Dahuria, and 

 westward to France and Spain. 



Stem stout but not woody, branched. Leaves 1 ft. and upwards ; petiole very stout, 

 angular, margined; leaflets 2-34 in-i sessile, dark green, base wedge-shaped, nerves 

 slender. Racemes 1 ft. and upwards, stout, strict, erect. Flowers 14 in. long, erect ; 

 pedicels 1-3 in., glandular, bracteate at the base and braoteolate usually above the 

 middle. Sepals small, lanceolate. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, glandular on the back. 

 Stamens equalling the petals. Capside 1 in. diam. i 



5. ISVODZA, Forst. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves opposite," simple or 1-3-foliolate or 

 imparipiunate, quite entire. Flowers small, in panicled axillary cymes, 

 iinisexual. , Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Petals 4r-5, sessile, valvate or slightly 

 imbricate. Stamens 4-5, inserted at the base of the disk, filaments subulate ; 

 aathers oblong. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 4-ceIled ■ style basilar, stigma 

 4-lobed, ovules 2 in each cell, collateral or superposed. Fruit of 4 coriaceous 

 3-valved 1-seeded cocci, endocarp horny elastically separable 2-lobed. 

 Seeds oblong, testa bony or crustaceous shining, hilum linear, albumen 

 fleshy; embryo straight, cotyledons ovate. — Disteib. About 22 species, 

 natives of tropical Asia, the Pacific, the E. African Islands, and Australia. 



* Leaves 3-foliolate. 



1. E. Roxbur^taiana, Benth. Fl. Hongh. 59 ; leaves quite glabrous 

 throughout, cymes very broad bracteate finely pubescent, flowers densely 

 crowded, filaments glabrous, ovary densely pubescent. E. triphylla, Bedd. 

 Fhr. Sylvat; Anal. Gen. xli. t. vi. f. 2. E. Marambong, Miguel Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. iii. 244. Fagara triphylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind, i. 416 (? o/ Linn). 

 F. Lunur-ankenda, Gaertn. Carp. i. 334, t. 68, f. 9. Xanthoxylon tnphyllum, 

 Wight lb. t. 204; III. i 169; Grah. Cat. Bomh. PI. 36; Balz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fhr. 46. X. Eoxburghianum, Cham, in Linncea v. 58. X. zey- 

 lanicum, BC. Prodr. i, 728. X. nilagiricum, Miguel Herb. Eohenmk. 



