ATALANTIA (mythological: Atalanta, the daughter of Schoeneus). ORD. Rutaceae. A genus of ornamental stove evergreen shrubs, having the eight stamens united below into a tube, and with undivided leaves. It comprises about ten species. They thrive well in a mixture of loam and peat. Propagated by means of ripened cuttings, which root readily if inserted in sand under a hand glass, in heat. ATALANTIA monophylla (one-leaved). fl. small, white, in axillary racemes. fr. golden yellow, about the size of a nutmeg. June. l. simple, ovate-oblong, emarginate at the apex. Spines small, simple. h. 8ft. India, 1777. A thorny shrub. ATALANTIA Matthioli (Matthioli's). fl. white, twelve to twenty-five to an umbel. Summer. l. three or four, ternate; leaflets linear-filiform, elongated, divaricate. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Alps of Carinthia, 1802.