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5-parted. Corolla white, five-petalled, spreading, petals linear. 

 Staminiferous tube erect, gibbous at the base, ten dentate, 

 ten furrowed, as if consisting of ten united filaments. An- 

 thers ten, oblong, yellow within the mouth of the tube. 

 Style as long as tube. Stigma capitate. 



XXIV. AURANTIACEiE. 



MURRAYA PANICULATA. 



Decandria Monogynia, 



N. O. Aurantice, 



Foliolis ovatis acuminatis, floribus terminalibus axillari- 

 busque subsolitariis, baccis oblongis saepius dispermis. 

 Chalcas paniculata. Lour : Fl : Coch : p. 270. 

 Camunium. Rumph: Amh: V. /?. 26. t, 17. 

 Kamuning, Malay, 



This is an abundantly distinct species from M. exotica^ 

 though unaccountably confounded with it by latter authors. 

 Loureiro discriminates between them very well, and his 

 description is on the whole good. Rumphius's figure is bad, 

 but preserves several of the distinguishing characters, parti- 

 cularly in the inflorescence and leaves, which however are 

 not sufficiently acuminate. It grows to the size of a small 

 tree, and the wood is much employed for the handles of 

 kreeses, being capable of receiving a fine polish. The leaflets 

 are generally five, ovate, terminating in a long acumen which 

 is slightly emarginate at the point, shining and very entire, 

 the terminal one considerably the largest. In M, exotica^ 

 the leaflets are more numerous and closer, obovate, blunt, 

 and of a much firmer, thicker substance. The flowers of M. 

 'paniculata are fewer and larger than those of M. exotica, 



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