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No. 34. 
Evodia accedens, Blume. 
(Natural Order RUTACE^E.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Evoclia (for euphony) Porst. Char. Gen. (as 
Euodia), t. 7. 
Flowers. —More or less unisexual. 
Sepals. Four or five, imbricate. 
Petals. -Four or five, valvate or very slightly imbricate. 
Disc. —Sinuate. 
Stamens .— Four or five; filaments subulate or slightly dilated. 
Ovary. —Of four or five carpels, usually distinct and style-like in the male flowers, more or less 
united in the females, styles attached below the middle, more or less united with a 4- or 
5-lobed stigma. 
Ovules. —Two in each carpel, collateral or superposed. 
Frui*. —Separating more or less completely into coriaceous two-valved cocci, the endocarp 
separating elastically. 
Seeds. —Seeds with a crustaceous testa, usually smooth and shining ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
straight, with ovate cotyledons. 
Unarmed trees or shrubs. 
Leaves .—Opposite, usually digitately three-foliolate or pinnate, rarely one-foliolate or simple; 
leaflets entire, often large. 
Cymes or panicles. —Axillary, or rarely terminal. 
Flowers .—Small. 
A considerable genus, spread over tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacific, 
and of the Madagascar group; all hut one of the Australian species are endemic. 
The genus differs from Melicope, chiefly in the stamens equal to, not double, the 
number of petals, from Zintlioxylum by the leaves all or mostly opposite, generally 
* by the more valvate petals and more united styles, besides minor characters offering 
occasional exceptions. (B.F1. i, 361.) 
Botanical description. —Species E. accedens , Blume, Bijdrag., 216. 
An erect tree 70 to 80 feet high, thinly pubescent or glabrous. 
Bark .—Light-coloured, somewhat thick and corky. 
Leaves .—Trifoliate. 
Petioles. —1 to 3 inches long. 
Leaflets. —to 5 inches long, ovate, shortly acuminate, ckartaceous, pale on the under side, 
shortly petiolulate. 
