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XXIX. SIMARUBEii;. 375 



entire, DaiTowed into a short petiole, occasionally bearing a gland on one side, 

 glabrous, penninerved and reticulate, not dotted. Peduncles in the upper 

 axils slender, bearing a short raceme of 2 to 4 flowers. Sepals nearly 3 lines 

 long at the time of flowering, enlarged to 5 or 6 lines, and stellately spread- 

 ing under the fruit. Petals white, slightly exceeding the sepals. Carpels 5, 

 the styles inserted above the middle. Ovules pendulous. Drupes about 1| 

 hnes long, nearly globular, with an inner angle, somcwiiat coriaceous, with a 

 crustaceous endoearp. Embryo much curved or circiuate like that of Suri- 

 <^na', cotyledons much broader than in that plant, yariously folded according 

 to i. Mueller, in the seed I opened flat, except following the general cm'vature 

 of the embiyo. 



N. S. "Wales. Rocks at the falls of the Severn in New EnglaucI, near Tenterficld, C. 



2. C. nionostylis, Bentli. A glabrous slender tree (or shrub ?). Leaves 

 petiolate, from ovate-lanccohite to elliptical-oblong, shortly acuminate, mostly 

 ^ to 4 in, long, narrowed at the base, membranous or thinly coriaceous. 

 Kacemcs, in the few specimens seen, very short, slender, 2- to 4-flowered, 

 Pedicels about 2 lines long, in the axils of minute bracts. Sepals nearly % 

 hnes long, shortly united at the base, membranous, persistent, and spreadin 



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after flowering. Petals (1 only seen) about twice as long as the sepals. Sta- 

 Biens 10, but in some of t])e flowers 1 or 2 are semiabortivc (or already 

 Withered away ?). Carpels in all the flowers seen solitary, with the style quite 

 hasal as in Suriana. Ovules as in C. pentastylis, collateral, but horizontal or 

 slightly ascending, 



N- S. "Wales. Clarcucc river, Beckler. The specimens seen are very few with very 

 lew llowers, the petals already almost aU fallen away. 



5. SUBIANA, Liuu. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, as long as the petals, persistent and 

 closing over the fruit, imbricate in the bud. Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 10, filaments filiform. Disk none. Carpels 5, free; styles distinct, 

 filiform, inserted near tlic base of the carpels ; stigmas capitellate ; ovules 2 

 m each carpel, ascending. Fruit-carpels coriaceous, indehiscent. Seeds soli- 

 taiy, ascending, "without albumen; testa membranous ; embryo cun'ed.— A 

 maritime shrub. Leaves alternate, simple. Peduncles in the upper axils 1- 

 or <ew-flo\vered. 



The gemis is limited to a single species widely spread over the seacoasts of most tropical 

 countries. It is in many respects aaomalous iu the structure of the flowers, bat is certainly 

 aiJicd to Cneoruyn and Castela, and, with them, appears to be better placed among Sima- 

 rubece than in any other Order to which it has been referred, although it is deprived of the 

 wttcr principle of the majority of Simarubea. 



1- S. maritima, Linn.; W. and Am. Trod. 361. A rigid, nmch-- 

 W'auchcd shrub, more or less hoary or tomcntose with simple, often capitate 

 hairs. Leaves crowded, llueur-spathulate, obtuse, 1 to U in. long, naiTOwed 

 at the base, quite entire, rather thick, scarcely veined. Peduncles short ui the 

 upper axils, bearing 1 or very few flowers, often forming short leafy terminal 

 corymbs. Sepals rather thick, acute or acuminate, 3 to 4 lines long, slightly 

 enlarging and closing over the fruit. Petals yellow, scarcely as long as the 



