Order XLIX
RUTACE.
An interesting and extensive, but rather heterogeneous, group of plants, natives of all countries and all situations. The species are either fetid northern herbaceous plants, as the garden rue, or neat heath-like southern shrubs, with an aromatic odor, as the Cape Diósmas; broad or long-leaved Australasian shrubs, with a stellate pubescence, as Phebálium, or tropical trees with panicles of pallid minute flowers, as the Cuspárias and Xanthóxylums. The order contains nearly 300 species, of which but a small proportion is in our gardens. The medical properties of many genera are considerable. Rúta and Péganum are emmenagogue, anthelmintic, and sudorific. Diósma abounds in a volatile oil of an agreeable smell, but acrid flavor; several of its species are reputed antispasmodics. The Xanthoxylums are said to possess acrid, stimulating, or tonic qualities; Cláva Hérculis and fraxíneum are said, in America, to be powerful sudorifics and diaphoretics. According to Barton, they possess a remarkable power of exciting copious salivation, not only when applied to the mouth, but even when taken internally; they have both been found powerful remedies in paralysis of the muscles of the mouth. Xanthoxylum caribæ'um is regarded in Guiana as a detersive vulnerary and febrifuge. The famous febrifugal Angostura bark is the produce of Cuspária febrífuga. Tribe 1. RUTEÆ. 998 Rúta W. 1088 Péganum W. 1293 Meliánthus W. 905 Jambolífera 997 Dictámnus W. 528 Calodendrum W. 880 Corræ'a W.
NATURAL ARRANGEMENT.
Tribe 2. DIOSMEE. 999 Crówea Sm. 517 Diósma W.en. 520 Agathósma W. en. 303 Fagára W. 878 Borónia Sm. 304 Ziéria Sm.
Tribe 3. ZANTHOXYLEE.
Tribe 4. CUSPARIEE, 518 Adenándra W. en. 1965 Empleúrum W. 519 Baryósma W. en. 2066 Xanthóxylum W. 41 Galipéa Aubl. 1500 Monniéria W.
ORDER L.
CORIARIEÆ.
Five species constitute the whole of this order, distributed in South Europe, New Zealand, Peru, and Mexico. They possess no beauty, and are only interesting on account of their problematical station in a . They possess no beauty, and are only interesting on account of their problematical station in a botanical arrangement. The leaves of C. myrtifólia are astringent, and are employed in dying black. Its berries are very poisonous. On one occasion, during the Spanish war fifteen French soldiers were taken ill after eating them, and three died from their powerful narcotic effects. 2091 Coriária W.
Section 4. Fruit (gynobasic) inserted into a fleshy receptacle, with which the style is continuous.