;.] xxxjii. RUTACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 511 



few small dry fibres only wHoh are scarcely to be traced when dry, oblong; testa mem- 

 branous^ — This plant is unknown to me; the description is taken from Eoxburgh's 

 Flora Indica and drawings. Prof. Oliver referred to it the preceding species, which 

 differs in the form of the stamens, and (if Roxburgh's figure of the ovary is correct) in 

 wanting a style, but the said figures resemble what an ovary would be were the style 

 fallen away. 1 refer it to Paragmignya from the long anther and pointed fruit. Kurz 

 has pointed out that Oliver's P. dtrifolia and Griffith's Citrus scandens cannot both 

 be the same as Roxburgh's Limonia dtrifolia (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, Pt. 2, 69). 



5. P. longispina, Hook / ; glabrous, spines long straight, leaflet 

 oblong subacute, flowers solitaiy small, pedicel very short, calyx 5-toothed, 

 filaments short equalling the linear anthers, ovary-cells 3-4 4-ovuled, fruit 

 3-4-angled. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Branches stout ; spines opposite and alternate, straight, Sometimes 2 in. long. Leaf- 

 let 3-4 in., base cordate ; petiole very short. Flowers J in. long ; pedicel very short. 

 (Myx-hbes obtuse. Petals oblong, obtuse. Stamens 10, equal, glabrous ; anthers as 

 long as the filaments, narrow, with a long apiculus. Ova/ry glabrous, stipitate ; style 

 stout, cylindrio ; ovules superposed in pairs. Fruitl-\.\ in. long, between globose and 

 ovoid, pointed, 3-4-oelled ; rind thick, coriaceous, glandular, pulp 0. Seeds 2-i in each 

 cell, oblong, compressed, narrowed at the base into a. short beak. — This description is 

 mainly taken irom Maingay's notes. 



6. P. armata, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. ii. 43 ; glabrous, 

 spines straight or recurved, leaflet elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely 

 caudate-acuminate, flovrers small solitary or fascicled, pedicel very slender, 

 calyx obtusely 4r-5-lobed, ovary-ceUs 3-4 usually 1-ovuled. Arthromischus 

 armatus, Thwaites Enum. 47. 



Cevlon ; in the hotter parts of the Island, common. 



A scandent shrub ; branches stout or slender, straight or flexuous. Leaflet 2-3 in., 

 base rounded, nerves indistinct ; petiole exceedingly short. Flowers \ in. long, 4-5- 

 merous ; pedicels \ in. ; buds obovoid. (Jalyx minute. Petals oblong, very much im- 

 bricated. Filaments linear-subulate, pilose ; anthers linear-oblong. Oworj/ hairy ; 

 style long, cylindrio, stigma dilated. iVuit J-J in. diam., subglobose, pulpy, yellow, 

 1-4-Beeded. 



20. ATAXiANTXA, Correa. 



Unarmed or spinous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, 1-foliolate, cori- 

 aceous, persistent, quite entire or crenulate ; stipule-like scales are often 

 present at the base of the petioles and spines, which belong to undeveloped 

 leaf-buds. Flmoers axillary rarely terminal, fascicled or in short racemed 

 corymbs or panicles, rarely solitary. Gaiyx 3-5-lobed or -partite, rarely 

 irregularly split. Petals 3-5, free or adnate to the stamens and united with 

 them into a tube, imbricate. Stamens 6-8, rarely 15-20, inserted round an 

 annular or cupular disk, filaments free or irregularly connate subequal or 

 the alternate shorter ; anthers short, ovate-oblong or base cordate (linear- 

 oblong in A. missionis). Ovary 2- or 4- rarely 3- or 5-celled ; style deci- 

 duous, stigma capitate ; ovules solitary or 2 collateral in each cell. Berry 

 large, subglo'bose, 1-5-celled, 1-5-seeded, rind thick. Seids oblong: 

 cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex. — Distkib. Species about 10, tropical 

 Asiatic and 1 Australian. 



* Anthers broadly ovoid. Ovary sessile on a short disk ; stigma clavate. 

 t Galyx vrregvlarly lohed, split to the hose on one side. 

 1. A.' monopliylla, Correa ; BO. Prodr. i. 635 ; leaflet elliptic or 

 ovate-oblong, tip obtuse or 2-lobed, flowers fascicled or shortly racemed, 



