Tas. 7406. 
SCHINUS pspenpens. 
Native of South America. 
Nat. Ord. ANAcCARDIACEM.—Tribe ANACARDIEX. 
Genus Scuinus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.1. pp. 422, 426.) 
(Scurnvus et Duvava.) 
Scuinus (Duvaua) dependens; frutex ramis strictis flexuosisve extimis spino- 
sis, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis oblongis obovatisve glaberrimis 
integerrimis v. serrato-dentatis, floribus polygamis in racemos axillares 
folia subequantes dispositis, bracteis ovatis minutis ciliolatis 1-2-floris, 
alabastris globosis, calycis lobis ovatis ciliolatis, petalis obovato-oblongis 
unguiculatis, ovario globoso glabro, drupis globosis. 
S. dependens, Ortega, Decad. vol. viii. p. 102. DL. March. Anacard. p. 164. 
Engler in Mart. Fl. Bras, 387, et in Alph, DC. Monog. Phanerog, vol. iv. 
p. 339, 538. 
8S. Huygan, Molina, Sagg. Chili, Ed. I. 169, 355, 
S. Bonplandianus, ZL. March. 7. ¢. 
Dovava dependens, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 74. Kunth in Dict. Sc. Nat. Te. t. 
47, Hook, Bot. Misc, vol. iii. p. 176. C. Gay Fl. Chil. vol. ii. p. 42. 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1573. 
D. ovata et D. longifolia, Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1568, et vol. xv. (1843), t. 59. 
D. dentata, DC. Prodr. 1. ¢. 
D. cuneata, et D. inebrians, Gill. ex Hook. & Arn. in Hook, Bot, Mise, vol. iii. 
p. 176. 
-D. fasciculata et D. pracox, Griseb. in Goett. Abhandl. vol. xix. (1874), 
p. 116. 
D. ornata (sphalm. pro ovata) Philipp. f. Cat. Pl. Vase. Chil. p. 47. 
D. polygama, Kunth in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. i. vol. ii. p. 340. 
D. spinescens, Tenxore Cat. Ort. Nap. p. 85. 
Amyris polygama, Cav. Ic. vol. iii. p. 20, t. 239. 
Professor Engler, in his able monograph of the Anacar- 
diacex, has shown that the long-established genus Duvaua, 
of Kunth, can only be regarded as a subgenus of the older 
Schinus. Though previously placed wide apart in the 
Order, the only character by which they could be separated 
was that of leaves simple in Duvawa and compound in 
Schinus, which of itself is insufficient for the establish- 
ment of two genera. 
Marcu Isr, 1895, 
