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490 XXXIII. RUTACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Evodia. 



*** Leaves pinnate, 





8. B. fraxinlfolia, Iloohf. ; leaves quite glabrous througnoui, ie<iuc^- 

 3-5-pairs, cymes broad brachiate pubescent, branches stout, novsers 

 4-5-n)erous, fruit glabrous. Tetradium tricliotomum, Lour. FL Com- yi , 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 88. Rhus fraxinifolium, Don Prodr. 248. Philagonia trasinv 

 folia, Hook Ic. PL t. 710 ; Wall Cat. 8521 ? P. sambucina, Blume Bijd. ^w. 

 P. procera, DC. Prodr. ii. 90. 



Subtropical Himalaya from Nipal to Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 

 3-5000 ft. —DisTRiB. Java? Cochinchina. wTiea 



A small much branched densely leafy tree, smelling strongly of Caraway _^ 

 bruised. Branchkts thick, terete. Leaves 8-12 in., spreading, bright green; peu 

 cylindric; leaflets 4-9 in., shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acumina . 

 straight or falcate, quite entire or crenulate, base rounded often oblique, nerves ^pr 

 ing, slender, terminal leaflet often hing-petiol.d. Cymes on short stout compressea pe- 

 duncles, axillary and terminal, clothed with fine close-set pubescence ; bracts mni • 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, white, $ nearly \ in. diam. Sepals small, obtuse, r 

 imbricate, pubescent within. Stamens exceeding the petals, filaments somewQai udu^. 

 anthers broad. Ovary glabrous; style short, stigma capitate. Fruit 4 J."- . ^™{j t^tW 

 carpels rot separating to the base, very coriaceous. Seed broadly e^^^P"p\ ^ °^i, 

 comnre^^sed; testa dark brown, shining.— I can hardly doubt this being the P""^ 

 samludiia of Blume (P. pi^ocera, DC, published in the same year) ; t>«^,f *7*?^.^\^^^^ 

 Java specimen I retain the name of fraxinifolia. It is the plant alluaett m 

 Evodia in the '* Genera Plantarum" as E. lioxburghiana. 



9, B. meliaefoUa, Benth. FL Hongk 58 ; petioles pi^^^^^l^^ 

 3-5 pairs glabrous, cymes broad brachiate pilose-pubescent, or ^ 



very slender, flowers 4-5-inerous. E. glauca, Miq. Ann. '^^\^Z'.hiktn 

 Boymia glabrifolia, Champ, in Hook Kew Journ. Boi.m- 330. MegaboU) 

 melisefolia, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 259. 



kmx^ Masters {in Herb. Grmth)\ ^. .. , -.^ on the . 



A much more slender plant than F, fraxinifoUa, with spreading sou ^'''' ^^{ng 

 rachis of the leaf and on the more slender partial petioles, very sj^poer p ^^^ 

 branches of the cyme, which is 8 inches broad, fewer sparser flowers, the <5 ^ * • 

 shorter more slender filaments, and more oblong anthers. The leaflets an; «. 

 more oblique at the base, and usually more acuminate. 





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rutSBcarpa, HooL/.dk Thorns. Herb. Tnd. Dr.; ^^f^^^.^^^^ 

 soft velvety pubescence, cymes brachiate, ^^^^^^^^ J/ ^ucc. fj^ 



Boymia rutsecarpa, Juss. according to Sieo. (3^ .. 



Japon. i 50, t. 21. 



/./>.//.— DisTKiB, Japan. 



S.^x«HiMA.AVA, alt. 7-10,000 i^. 



ole tereff. 



A small densely-foliaged green tree, inodorons. Leaiyes ^"^,«, 'j^,iiqueat tb« 

 stout ; leaflets about 5 pair, subsessile, oblong-acute, usually rounded ^^"^ *'_^^ (j, diaCi^ 

 base, margin quite entire, under surface woolly, nerves faint. ^^|"^^i„x toment*>8^' 

 terminal ; peduncles very short stout and as well as the pedicels and ^a- > gtam^ 

 Flower about A in. diam. PetaU nearly elabrous externally, pubescent wiiu • .^^j^jji 



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^^- Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, ^'^^^^^^^^^^ ' G<f^P 



entire/ pnnctate.^>^J^^^^ small,- in axillary ^"^^^^^^^^ 



small, 47partite. ; Peto/s 4, triangular-ovate, acute, '^ 





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