S8 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Rhus. 
PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
RHUS. Schreb. gen. n. 502, 
Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ superi- 
or, one-celled, one seeded, attachment, base and vertici. 
Drupe one-seeded. Embryo inverse, without perisperm. 
1. R. succedaneum. Willd. 1. 1497. 
Arboreous. Leaflets five pair, entire, seen Ba ie 
Petioles simple. Berry oblique. 
Arbor vernicifera spuria, &c. Kempf. Amoen.794, t.'795, 
A small tree, in blossom, was received from Dr. Berry at 
Madras, into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in April 
1801, which came originally from China, It had not in 
March 1809 attained a greater height than about ten feet, 
so slowly does it grow, but it blossoms annually dur- 
ing the hot season and produces an abundance of fruit. 
Trunk short, with but few, ascending branches, cover= 
ed with smooth ash-coloured bark. Leaves about the ends 
of the branches, alternate, unequally pinnate, from six 
to twelve inches long. Leaflets from four to six pair, op- 
posite, obliquely broad-lanceolate, long, taper-pointed, 
drooping, entire, perfectly smooth on both sides ; from 
three to four inches long, and about one inch broad. Pe- 
tioles round, and smooth. Panicles axillary or from the 
base of the naked branchlets of the present year’s shoots, 
‘Spreading, ovate, very. ramous. Flowers small, very nu- 
merous, short-pedicelled, yellow. Bractes small, one- 
flowered. Calyx, here it may be said to consist of five- 
leaflets, Petals five, oblong, first spreading, but soon be- 
coming reflected back over the calyx. Nectary a five-lob- 
ed cup, as in the Rhamni, between the base of the germ, 
and the insertion of the petal and stamens. Filaments 
five, the length of the corol, erect, inserted, alternate with 
