98 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Rkus. 



PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



RHUS. Schreb. geii. n. 502. 



Ca/yx five-parted. C'oro/five-petallcd. Ggr»i superi- 

 or, one-celled, one seeded, attachment, base and vertici. 

 Drupe one-seeded. Embryo inverse, without perisperm. 



1. H. succedaneum. Willd. 1. 1497. 



Arboreous. Leaflets five pair, entire, oblong-lanceolate. 

 Petioles simple. Berry oblique. 



Arbor vernicifera spuria, &ic. Kosmpf. Amoen.794:. f. 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 Rhanini, 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 



