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latis ; floribus 20-andris, fructuum globosorum cortice tenui scabroso, pulpa aeri amara.— C. Toroso, 
Pickering’s Notes? Nomen vernac. Vitiense, * Moli Kurukuru;" “ Bitter or Seville Orange" of 
the white settlers—Common throughout the lower districts of the group, to all appearance indi- 
genous (Seemann! n. 58). 
The natives do not employ the fruit of this tree, but the leaves, after being macerated, are used for 
washing the hair, to clean it and destroy the vermin. I expect the Oitrus found by Forster in Tana, and 
referred by him to C. Awrantium, was C. vulgaris. 
4. C. Decumana, Linn. Spec. 1100; petiolis alatis, foliolis obtusis emarginatis; floribus 16-24- 
andris; fructuum subglobosorum v. oblongorum cortice crasso; pulpa acidula.— Pampelmoes, Rumph. 
Amb. vol. ii. t. 24. f. 2. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, * Moli kana;" “Shaddock ” of white settlers.— 
Very common throughout the group, apparently indigenous. 
The Moli kana (or edible Moli) is extremely common, and thickly lines the banks of rivers, where it 
attains 30—40 feet in height, as, for instance, that of Namosi, Viti Levu, where, during my stay in August, 
1860, the stillness of night was frequently broken by the heavy splash of the falling fruits. There is a 
variety with white, another with pinkish flesh, both of which are much esteemed by the natives as an article 
offood. The thorns are used by the lower classes for tatooing the women. Forster met with this species 
in the Tongan Islands, and, like C. vulgaris, it is probably indigenous to this part of Polynesia. 
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On»o XIX. SIMARUBEZE. 
I. Brucea, Mill. Fasc. t. 25; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 311. Flores polygami. Calyx 
parvus, 4-partitus, imbricatus. Petala 4, minuta, linearia, imbricata, apice inflexa. Discus 4-lobus. 
Stamina 4, in fl. 9 effceta, sub disco inserta, filamentis nudis, connectivo inconspicuo. ‘Ovarium alte 
4-lobum v. carpella 4 disco depresso insidentia, libera; styli liberi v. basi tantum connati, stigma- 
tibus simplicibus patentibus; ovula in loculis solitaria, prope apicem loculi pendula. Drupz 4, 
ovoidez, vix carnose, putamine crustaceo rugoso. Semen loculo conforme, testa membranacea, 
albumine sat copioso; embryo rectus, radicula supera.—Arbores amare; foliis alternis, exstipulatis, 
imparipinnatis; foliolis basi obliquis, integerrimis, grosse serratis v. sinuato-lobatis ; spicis axilla- 
ribus, elongatis; floribus minutis, in cymas parvas secus- pedunculum dispositis, breviter pedicellatis, 
pedicellis basi bracteolatis. : 
l. B. () quercifolia, (sp. nov.) Seem.; ramulis foliisque hirsuto-pubescentibus demum gla- 
bratis, ramulis teretibus; foliis alternis exstipulatis imparipinnatis 17—19-foliolatis; foliolis petiolu- 
latis lanceolato-oblongis sinuato-lobatis; lobis obtusissimis; cat. ign.— Viti Levu, on the Namosi 
river (Seemann! n. 105). 
This tree is slightly bitter, and in habit approaches nearest to Brucea Sumatrana, but the leaflets are 
more deeply divided than any of that widely-diffused species. The hair is of a brownish-yellow tinge, and 
in the full-grown leaflets more crowded on the midrib and lateral veins than any other part of the leaves. 
Leaves 1} feet long; leaflets about 3 inches long, 9 lines broad.* os 
* Picrasma Denhamii, (sp. nov.) Seem. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. ; arbuscula ; foliis trifoliolatis (v. 
imparipinnatis ?), foliolis petiolulatis ovatis utrinque acuminatis glabris; floribus subracemosim panicu- 
latis petiolo communi vix longioribus; pedunculis pedicellis calycibus bracteis bracteolisque puberulis; 
floribus 4-meris hermaphroditis (v. polygamis?); petalis oblongis obtusis 1-nerviis pellucido-punctatis ; 
filamentis glabris.—In woods, Aneitum, New Hebrides; collected, in Captain Denham's Expedition, by 
Mr. M‘Gillivray !—Petioles 23-8 inches long, the petiolule of the central leaflet twice the length of that of 
„the lateral ones. Blade of central leaflet (the largest) 44-5 inches long, 2-2} inches broad. Flowers 
small, white. Bentham and Hooker f., Genera Plant. p. 311, distinguish Picrasma from Picrena by its 
hairy filaments; but that distinction breaks down in the present species, which agrees in every other 
important generic character with P. Javanica, so well described and figured in Bennett’s Plant. Jav. 
p. 197. t. 41. Miquel (Fl. N. Ind.) unites the two genera. 
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