An upright slightly glaucous shrub, when bruised emit- 
ting a resinous odour, the flavour of which however is not 
rank and nauseous, like that of the common Garden Rue ; 
branches round, roughened at the surface by minute pro- 
jecting specks. Leaves about 4 inches long or more, co- 
vered with small dots on both sides, alternate, distant, 
unequally pinnate, of from two to three pairs of leaflets, 
widespread, whitish underneath, uppermost simple, and 
diminishing at last into mere bractes; Jeaflets lanceo- 
late, crenately toothed, tapered downwards, petioled, about 
2 inches long, side ones elongatedly oblong, sublanceolate, 
opposite, wideset, terminal one broadest, subovately lan- 
ceolate: common petiole about 3 inches long, round, stiffish, 
fixed to the branch by a pale glandular flexile somewhat en- 
larged joint. Flowers deep yellow, forming a corymbose 
panicle at the tops of the branches: peduncles axillary and 
terminal leafily cymose at the upper part, subdichotomous, 
several-flowered, ascendent: pedicles round, one-flowered, 
-about equal to the corolla. Calyx 4- (perhaps in the pri- 
mary flowers of the panicle 5-?) parted, subcoriaceously 
herbaceous, persistent with 3 acuminate and close-pressed 
segments, the fourth larger ligulately oblong spreading and 
recurved. Corolla 4- (primary flowers 5-?) petalled, cadu- 
cous. Germen subglobular, green, pulvinately 4-5-lobed at 
the upper part, umbilicated, 4-celled, seated upon a thick 
“hardish fleshed circular basement (disk) which is yellowish 
. without and perforated at the lower part of its circumference 
by ten oozing pores: style bristleshaped, upright, per- 
sistent.. 
