26 XLVi. ANACAEDUCEa:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Swintonia. 



SmcAPORE, Wallich ; Malacca, Maingay. 



A largo tree. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., coriaceoi:s, obscurely reticulate above, more 

 distinctly beneath; nerves btrong. nearly straight; petiole 1-1| in. Pankhs 

 terminal and in the uppermost axils, branched from the base, curved, a foot long and 

 more, together forming a drooping mass of long arched finely pubescent angled (when 

 dry) peduncles, that branch towards their ends into slenden tomentose branchlets 

 with innumcrublo softly downy flowers; bracts ^large, obovate, concave, very mem- 

 branous. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, I in. long. Calyx narrow-ovoid, very 

 membranous, almost 2-valved. Petals linear-oblong, inserted towards the base of the 

 disk, villous on Loth surfaces. Stamens 5. Disk sliort. — Wallich, who assumed this 

 to be Jack's Stagmaria verniciflua {Gluta Benghas, L.), found a tree of it in the forest 

 of Sincanore. close to Botanv HalL which, I assume, was his temporary residence. 



8. SWXNTONZA, Griff. 



A tall tree, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, long-petloled, simple, quite 

 entire. Panicles terminal and axillary, very large and broad. Flowers small 

 hermaphrodite or unisexiial. Calyx small, 5-lobed, lol^es rounded imbricate. 

 Petals 5, adnate to tbie middle of the disk, linear-oLlong, imbricate, much 

 enlarged and reflexed in fruit. Disk short or elongate or cylindric. Stamefns 

 6, inserted on the top of the disk, free. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 1-celled, narrowed 

 into the slender style ; stigma capitellate ; ovule pendulous from a basal funicle. 

 Dru^ ovoid, smooth, sessile, coriaceous, subtended hy the 5 reflexed enlarged 

 petals. Seed erect, testa thin; cotyledons amygdaloid. — Disxmb. The 

 loUowing are the only species knowTi. ' 



1. S. Griffitbil, Kurz in Jour. Beng, As. Soe. 1870, ii. 75; leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at hoth ends, petiole long slender, panicle much 

 larger than the leaves lax spreading quite glabrous, branches very slender, 

 flowers pedicelled. Swintonia, Griff, m Proc. Linn. Soc. 1846, 283. Astro- 

 petalum 1, Grif. NotuL iv. 411, t. 5G5, f. 2, h. c. d. 



Tbnassebim, at Mergui, (?ri^^A ; iTcZ/cr. • 



A lofty tree, glabrous tliroughout ; branchlets very slender. Leaves 4-7 by 1-1| 

 in., sometimes subppposite or 3-nate ; tip obtuse ; margin waved, obscurely reticulate 

 above and beneath ; nerves 16-20-pairs, very slender ; petiole 1^ in. Panicle copiously 

 branched from near the base. Flowers long-pedicelled, ^ in, diam. Petals linear- 

 oblong, quite glabrous, rapidly enlarging. Fruit unknown. — I do not find the 

 irregular pellucid dots which Griffith describes. Habit of a Mango, conspicuous 

 fta its dense masses of floAvers which, when bruised, emit a peppery smell. 



2. S. Helferi, Hook. / ; leaves narrow-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 base acute, margins undulate, petiole long slender, panicles much longer than the 

 leaves lax spreading quite glabrous, flowers pedicelled. 



TfiXASsERiM or A>-nAMAX IsT-AKDs, Heifer. 



Very nearly allied to S, Griffithii.hut branchlets stouter. Ijeaves much longer, ^ 

 6-10 by 1-li in., drawn out into longer points, with more numerous (25-30) pairs of ' 

 nerves, rather stouter petioles, and more waved margins ; they are also of a dark 

 brown colour when dry, whereas those of 5. Griffithii are pale greyish-brown. Brtcpe 

 (ripe) obovoid, | in. The reflexed petals 2 in, long, linear, obtuse, veined, glabrous. '": 



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3. S. Schwenkil, Teysjn, ^ Binnend. Cat. Hort. -Bo(/or. 230; leaver, 

 oblong-lanceolate tip obtuse rounded or obtusely acuminate, base rounded 

 glaucous beneath, petiole very slender, panicles excessively l)ranched longer or 

 shorter than the leaves, flowers miuute subsessile. Zur^ hi Jmrn. As. Soc. 



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