Melicope
(from meli, honey, and kope, a division; in allusion to the four honey-glands at the base of the ovaries). ORD. Rutaceae. A genus consisting of about fifteen species of gland-dotted, glabrous, greenhouse shrubs, natives of New Zealand and the Pacific Island. Flowers white, rather small; cymes axillary, three-flowered, or paniculately branched and many-flowered. Leaves opposite (rarely alternate), simple or one to three-foliolate, very rarely pinnate; petioles simple or winged; leaflets entire or crenate. The species described below is the only one known to cultivation. It thrives in a compost of sandy loam, with a little peat and leaf mould. Propagated, in May, by cuttings of small side shoots, inserted in sand, under a bell glass. M. ternata (three-leafleted). fl. greenish-white, in peduncled, trichotomous, axillary cymes. June. l. opposite, trifoliolate; leaflets 3in. to 4in. long, ovate or linear-oblong, acute, entire, longer than the petioles. h. 12ft. to 15ft. New Zealand, 1822.