Brucea I TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. —469 
1. B. sumatrana, R.* 
Shrubby. Leaflets serrate. Racemes axillary, generally coti. 
Lussa-Radja, Rumph. Amb. Auctuar. 27. t. 15. à 
- Mal. Ampadoo- Barrowing. 
A native of Sumatra. From thence Mr. Ewer sent the seeds to 
the Botanic Garden, where in one year the plants were about fourfeet 
high with a straight ligneous stem; and few branches. | They then 
began to flower in May, and continued. to blossom and ripen their 
seed all the year. ioi bush 
Leaves scattered, unequally-pinnate, from twelve to eighteen in- 
ches long. — Leaflets from four to six pair, opposite, short-petioled, 
obliquely ovate-lanceolate, grossly and obtusely serrate, pointed, vil- 
lous underneath, from three to six inches long, very bitter, and some- 
what foetid.—Petioles common, round, and villous.— Stipules noue. 
—Racemes axillary, solitary, from one to six, or eight inches long, 
somewhat compound, dark purple, and clothed with a few white 
hairs.— Flowers numerous, very minute, dark purple, and in all the 
Sumatra plant completely hermaphrodite.— Bractes ‘subulate, hairy, 
very small, and caducous.— Calyx four-leaved, or deeply four-parted. 
Segments small, ovate-lanceolate, deep purple, hairy on the out side. 
and with the corols becoming reflexed.— Peta/s four, longer thau the 
calyx, lanceolate, dark purple, and hairy ou the outside.— Nectary a 
dark purple, four-lobed, fleshy cup surrounding the insertion of the 
germs.— Filaments four, short, purple, inserted under the margin of 
the nectary. Anthers oval, large, and deep purple till they discharge 
their pollen.—Germs four, superior, one-celled, with one ovu/um in 
each attached to the upper and inner side of the cell.—Styles a sin- 
gle, short, recurved, one to each germ. Stigmas simple. — Drupes 
four, when all come to maturity, size of a small grain of black pep- 
per smooth, dark purple, one-celled, —Nut conform to the drupe, 
rugose, one-celled, inner edge thinner, and the upper half of it marked 
with a white line, (the umbilicus), —Seed conform to the nut. Inte- 
guments single, adhering to the perisperm, thin and. white.—Feris- 
perm in very small quantity, indeed it may be called a "fleshy inner 
* Gonus amaiissimus Lour. Cochiach, ed. Will. ii. 809.—N. W. 
