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: Genus 2. Aristoreria, L’ Héritier. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. Flowers unisexual: sepals, 
four or five, valvate ; petals, four or five, lobed at the tips; stamens, four or five 
o1 ‘more ; ovary, two- to four-celled, with two ovules in each cell. Fruit, a two- 
to four-celled berry; seeds sometimes with a fleshy coat investing the hard testa. 
GENUS 3. Exaocarpus, Linné. 
Large shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Flowers perfect, 
usually pendulous: sepals, four or five, valvate; petals, four or five, laciniate ; 
receptacle glandular; stamens numerous; anthers pubescent, curved at the tip; 
ovary, two- to five-celled ; ovules, two or more in each cell. Fruit, a drupe ; 
nut, bony, wrinkled or tuberculated, one or more celled; one-seeded. 
§ll. DISCIFLORA:. 
Calyx and corolla usually present; petals free ; stamens usually inserted on 
the surface of a thickened disc, which sometimes forms a ring or cushion, or is 
broken up into glands ; ovary usually superior. 
ORDER 6. RUTACEA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple or 
compound. Flowers perfect or unisexual: sepals, four or five; petals, four or 
five, free; stamens, eight or ten, inserted at the base of a swollen disc; anthers 
versatile ; ovary of three to five carpels, more or less united; styles, four or five, 
coherent ; stigma sessile, four- or five-lobed. Fruit, a capsule or berry, one or 
many seeded, the inner coat separating from the outer. 
This order includes the rue (Ruta graveolens), the well-known Diosmas of the 
Cape, and Boronias of Australia, also the orange, lemon, lime, shaddock, &c. 
Genus 1. Meticore, Forster. 
Shrubs or small trees, with opposite or alternate leaves, pellucid-dotted. 
Flowers perfect or unisexual, in axillary cymes: sepals, four; petals, four, with 
inflexed tips; stamens, eight; ovary, three- to four-lobed, three- to four-celled ; 
styles, one to four, coherent; stigma capitate or three- to four-lobed. Fruit 
capsular, of three to four cocci, inner coat papery ; seeds jet black, shining, with 
copious endosperm. 
OrpER 7. MELIACEA:. 
Usually large trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate, or, rarely, 
simple. Flowers perfect or, rarely, unisexual: calyx small, four- to five-lobed, 
imbricate ; petals, four to five, contorted or imbricate, sometimes adherent to 
the staminal tube; stamens, five to twenty, inserted with the petals outside the 
_base of an hypogynous disc, the filaments usually united by their margins into a 
tube, toothed or laciniate at the apex; anthers sessile or subsessile on the 
staminal tube ; ovary, three- to five-celled; style single ; stigma capitate; cells 
two or more; ovules, two in each cell. Fruit, a drupe or berry or capsule, &c. ; 
seeds usually destitute of endosperm. 
This order includes the Australian cedar (Cedrela australis), the Pride of 
India (Melia A zedarach), the satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia), and the mahogany 
(Swietenia Mahogont). 
Genus 1. Dysoxyzum, Blume. 
Large trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate. Flowers perfect, in pendulous 
panicles, axillary, or springing from naked branches or even from the trunk: 
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