82 EUE FAMILY. 



sometimes elevates more or less the single compound pistil or the 

 2 — 5 more or less separate carpels. Leaves either opposite or alter- 

 nate, in ours mostly alternate, without stipules. Flowers only in 

 No. 2 irregular. Many species are medicinal. 



i 1. Perennial, slrong-acenied, hardy {eisotic) herbs : flowers perfict : stamens 8 or 

 10: ovary i-b-tubedj i~&-celled: seeds several, 



1. RUT A. Sepals and petals 4 or 5, short, the latter roundish and arching. Sta- 



mens twice as many as the petals. Style 1. Pod globular and many-seeded. 

 Leaves decompound. 



2. DIOTAMNUS. Sepals and petals 6; the latter long and lanceolate, on short 



claws, the lower one declining, the others ascending. Stamps 10; the long 

 filaments declining and curved, partly glandular. Styles 5, nearly separate. 

 Ovary a little elevated, deeply 5-lobed, in fruit becoming 5 flattened rough- 

 glandular 2-3-seeded pods, each splitting when ripe into 2 valves, which 

 divide into an outer and an inner layer. Leaves pinnate. , 



^ 2. Shnjis or trees, hardy, vrith polygamous, dui^ious, or sometimes perfect, smalt 

 {greenish or whitish) flowers : stamens i or b, as many as the petals : seeds 

 single or in pairs, 



* Tndigenom : leaves pinnate orofS leaflets, deciduous. 

 8. ZANTHOXYLUM. Flowers dioecious. Pistils 2 -B; their styles slightly co- 

 hering ; the ovaries separate, ripening into rather fleshy at length dry and 

 2-valved little pods. Seed black, smooth and shining. Prickly trees or 

 shrubs : leaves pinnate. 

 i. PTELEA. Flowers polygamous. Pistil a 2-celled ovary tipped with a short 

 style, forming a 2-celled 2-seeded and rounded wing-fruit or samara, in shape 

 like that of the Elm. Not prickly : leaflets 3. 



* * Exotic : leaves simple^and entire, evergreen. 



B. SKIMMIA. Flowers polj'gamous or perfect. Ovary 2 - B-celled, with a single 



ovule from the top of each cell, in fruit becoming a red berry or drupe. 



5 3. Shrubs or trees, exotic, not hardy, with sweet-scented foliage and perfect flowers, 

 having numerous (20 - 60) stam&tis. 

 6. CITRUS. Petals 4-8, usually 5, thickish. Filaments Irregularly united more 

 or less. Ovary manj'-celled, encircled at the base by a conspicuous disk (see 

 I^essons, p. 125, fig. 281), ia fruit becoming a thiok-finded many-seeded large 

 berry. Branches usually spiny. Leaves evergreen, apparently simple, but 

 with a joint between the blade and the (commonly winged or margined) 

 petiole, showing that the leaf is a compound one reduced to the end-leaflet. 



1. EUTA, RUE. (The ancient name.) Natives of the Old "World, y. 



K. gravfeolens, Common Edb. Cult, in country gai'dens ; a bushy herb, 

 woody or almost shrubby at the base, with bluish-green and strongly dotted 

 oblong or obovate small leaflets, th,e terminal one broader and notched at the 

 end, and corymbs of greenish-yellow flowers, produced all summer ; the earliest 

 blossom has the parts in fives, the rest in fours. Plant very acrid, sometimes 

 even blistering the, skin. 



2. DICTAMNUS, TEAXINELLA. (Ancient Greek name.) Native of 

 Southern Europe. ^ 



D. Fraxin^Ila. Cult, for ornament ; herb with an almost woody base, 

 viscid-glandular, and with a strong aromatic scent ; the leaves likened to those 

 of Ash on a smaller scale (whence the common name), of 9 - 13 ovate and ser- 

 rate leaflets ; the large flowers in a terminal raceme, in summer, in one variety 

 pale purple with redder yeins, another white, 



3. ZANTHOXYLUM; PEICKLY ash. (Name composed of two 

 Greek words, meaning yellow wood.) Bark, leaves, and little flesh)' pods very 

 pungeni and aromatic. 



Z. Americ&uum, Nokthekn P. or Toothache-treb. Eocky woods 

 and banks N. ; a prickly shrub or small tree, with leaves downy when young, 

 of 9- 11 ovate or oblong leaflets ; the greenish flowers in axillai-y clusters, in 



