SIMARUBACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehdbr and E. H. Wilson. 



PICRASMA Blume. 



Picrasma quassioides Bennett, PL Jav, Rar, 198 (1844). — Plan- 

 chon in Lond. Jour. Bot. V, 573 (1846).— Wallich, Cat No. 8506 

 (1847). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 61 (1861). — A. W. Bennett in Hooker 

 f., FL BriL Ind, I. 520 (1875). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 

 112 (1886). — Franchet, PL Delavay. 125 (1889). — Sargent in Gar- 

 den & Forest, VI. 112 (1893). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. ltd. 

 n. ser. XVII. 407 (1910). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull Misc. 

 Inform, add. ser, X. 57 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongkong) (1912). 



Simaha quassioides D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 248 (1825). 



Nima quassioides Hamilton ex D, Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 248 (quasi synon.) 



(1825). 

 Rhus ailanthoides Bunge in Mem. Sav. 6tr. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, II. 89 



{Enum. PI. Chin. Bot. 15) (1833). 

 Picrasma ailanthoides Planchon in Lond. Jour. Bot. V. 573 (1846). — Shira- 



sawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. 1. 90, t. 53 (1900). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 



425 (1900). — Schneider, III. Handb. Lauhhohk. II. 129, fig. 82 f-m., 



83a (1907). 

 Picrasma japonica Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. n. ser. VI. 383 (1858-59). 



Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. s6r. 5, V. 210 (1866). 

 Picrasma quassioides^ var. glabrescens Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot, Ital, 



n. ser. XVIII. 171 (1911). 



Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 30, 1907 (No. 1671; 

 bush 2-2.5 m.). Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, 

 thickets and margins of woods, alt. 300-1000 m., May and July 1907 

 (No. 3223; slender tree 3-6 m. tall); Patung Hsien, woodlands, June 

 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 903); without locality, April 1901, May 

 1900 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 1823, 1965); without locality, A. Henry 

 (Nos. 7570, 7570^); '* Monte Triora," July 1907, C. Silvestri (No. 

 1239). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, June 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 1062); same locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5534, 5534*, 5649). 

 Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 1300 m., May and 

 September 1908 (No. 3223; tree 10 m. tall, girth 1 m., flowers yellow, 



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