Flora Medica

pistil, which is attenuated towards the apex. Stigma 4-furrowednot thicker than the style. Capsules 4, partly united, dehiscinginternally at the apex. Seeds dotted. Perennial or suffrutescentherbaceous plants. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnated,or decompound, with pellucid dots. Flowers yellow or rarelywhite, disposed in terminal corymbs or racemes : the number ofparts occasionally augmented by a fourth.429. R. graveolens Linn, sp.pl. 548. DC. prodr.i. 710.Duh. arb. ii. t. 61. S. and C. ii. t. 71. Common in sterile wasteplaces in many parts of the South of Europe. (Common Rue.)A glaucous, hairless, erect, herbaceous or half-shrubby plant, with astrong, heavy, unpleasant smell, growing about 2 feet high. Leavesand all the other parts filled with transparent dots, supradecompound,alternate ;their lateral lobes linear or nearly so, the terminal onesobovate the ; uppermost leaves simply pinnate. Carpels terminal, leafless,trichotomous, cymose. Petals 4, yellow, unguiculate, concave,wavy, a little irregularly toothed. Fruit roundish, warted, 4-lobed,each lobe opening into 2 valves. Once in repute as an emmenagogue,antispasmodic and anthelmintic. It is still used in the form of " Ruetea " in domestic medicine. It is acrid and stimulant.EVODIA.Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, equal. Stamens 4-5, smooth ;filaments subulate ;anthers heart-shaped, moveable. Disk cupshaped,sinuated. Ovary single, deeply 5-lobed, with 2 collateralovules in each cell. Style single, very short ;stigmaterminal, obtuse. Cocci 2-valved, 1 -seeded, with a separable2-valved endocarp.230. E. febrifuga Aug. de St. H. plant, us. No. 4. pi rem.bres. i. 149. fl.bras. i. 79. DC. prodr.\. 724. Esenbeckiafebrifuga Mart. n. g. t. 233. Forests of the province of MinasGeraes in Brazil.A tree. Leaves trifoliate ; leaflets lanceolate elliptical somewhatacuminate. Panicle terminal, downy. Petals 5. Ovary simple, warted.Bark and young wood extremely bitter and astringent: used withgreat success in Brazil as febrifuges.GALIPEA.Calyx short, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, longer, somewhatunequal, combined or converging into a pseudo-monopetalouscorolla. Filaments adhering to the tube of the corolla,either 5-8, of which 2-4 are sterile, or 5 all fertile ;anthersoblong, sometimes revolute after flowering. Ovaries more orless united, surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped disk. Styles5, either distinct or consolidated, each terminated by an obtusestigma. Capsules by abortion 1-2.431. G. Cusparia Aug. de St. H. in DC. prodr.i. 731.210