Brucea. tetuandria tetragtma. 469 



1. B. sumatrana, R.* 



Shrubby. Leaflets st^nate. Racemes axillary, generally compound. 



Lussa-Kadja, Humph. Amb. Auctuar. 27. t. 15. 



Mai. Ampadoo-Bano^ving. 



A native of Sumatra. From thence Mr. Ewer sent the seeds to 

 the Botanic Garden, where in one year the plants were about four feet 

 high with a straight ligneous stem ; and few branches. They thea 

 began to flower in May, and continued to blossom and ripen theif 

 seed all the year. 



Leaves scattered, unequally-pinnate, from twelve to eighteen in- 

 ches long. Leaflets trom 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. — Petioki common, round, and villous. — Stipules none. 

 — Racemes axillary, solitary, from one to six, or eight inches long, 

 somewhat compoimd, dark purple, and clolhed with a few wUite 

 hvLUs.—Flozcers numerous, very minute, daiU puiple, and in all the 

 Sumatra plant completely hermaphrodite.— 73rac/es subulate, hauy, 

 very small, and caducous.— Co/j/.r four-leaved, or deeply four-parted. 

 Segments smull, ovate-lanceolate, deep purple, hairy on the out side 

 and with the corols becoming icAexed.— Petals foui', longer than the 

 calyx, lanceolate, dark purp'e, and hairy on the ouii>idn.—Necturj/ a 

 dark purple, four-lobed, tieshy cup surrounding the insertion ot the 

 germs. — Filaments four, short, purple, inserted under the nsargui of 

 the nectary. Anthers oval, large, and deep purple till they discharge 

 their pollen. — Germs four, superior, one-celled, with one ovulum in 

 each attached to the upper and inner side of the cell. — Sti/les a sin- 

 gle, short, recurved, one to each germ. Stigmas siaiplt.— Lnijjes 

 four, when all come to maturity, size of a small grain of black pep- 

 per smooth, dark purple, one-celled. — Nut conform to t!ie drupe, 

 rugose, one-celled, inner edge thinner, and the upper half of it marUed 

 with a white line, (the umbilicus).— Sect/ 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 iiuier 

 • Gonus ainaiissiiaus Lour. CocliuscU. ed. Will. ii. t^09.— N. W. 



