Murraya
(named after John Andrew Murray, 1740-1791, a Swedish botanist, once Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Gottingen, and a pupil of Linnaeus). SYN. Chalcas. ORD. Rutaceae. A small genus (about four species) of unarmed stove trees or shrubs, inhabiting tropical Asia and tropical and Western sub-tropical Australia. Flowers rather large, solitary, axillary, or disposed in terminal corymbs or in axillary cymes; calyx five-fid or five-partite; petals five, free, linear-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, imbricated. Berry small, one or two-seeded, oblong or ovoid. Leaves pinnate; leaflets petiolulate, cuneate at base or unequilateral, entire or obscurely crenulate. The species thrive in a compost of turfy loam and peat. Propagated by cuttings of ripened wood, which should be taken with leaves intact, and inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in moist bottom heat. M. exotica (foreign). fl. white, fragrant; peduncles many-flowered, corymbose. August. fr. red, roundish, one-seeded, l., leaflets seven to nine, obovate, obtuse. h. 10ft. India, 1771.(B. R. 434.) M. paniculata (paniculate). This is a mere form of the above, only differing in its fewer-flowered peduncles and more arboreous habit.