AURANTIE

& (Lat.), n. f. pl. A*r(a?-u*r)-a?n(a®n)-ti(t1?)"e?-e(a3- e?), Fr., aurantiées. Of Reichenbach, a division of the Hesperidec (of Bentham and Hooker, a tribe of the Rutaceæ) comprising Limonta, Clausena, Luvunga, A talant i a, Citrus, Feronia, Ægle, and six other genera, in which the leaves are 1- to 3-foliolate or pinnate; there are re; r hermaphrodite flowers with either free or connate petals and stamens and an entire ovary containing from one to many ovules, and a simple terminal style, entire at the base; and the fruit is usually a pulpy, corticate berry with exalbuminous seeds. By Reichenbach it was divided into the Limonieæ, Ctausenew, and Citreæ. [B, 42, 170.]