piCRASMA. SIMARUBACEAE. 167 



ente; floribus inconspicuis in cymas axillares pedunculatas versus apicem 

 ramorum collectis. Partes omnes insigniter amarae. 



1. P. .JAVAMCA IMume, Rijdr. p. 24S ; Renn. 1. cit. tab. 41. — Planchon 1. c. 573. — 

 Foliolis quinis (iiunc teniis) breviter acuminatis integerrimis; florihus tetrameris. — 

 Crescit iii insula Java. 



2. P. NAPALEN.SiS IJenn. loc. cit. p. 201. — Planchon I. c. — Foliis septenis (nunc 

 teriiis) lon^ius acuminatis iiitegerrimis ; floribus tetrameris. — Crescit in Napalia. 



3. P. UIIAS.SIOIDES lienn. I. e. p. lOS. in ailnot. — Pianthon 1. c. — Koliolis 9 — 13 

 acuininatis serratis, ]>ari infimo interdum stipularum formam induente; florilius pen- 

 tameris , pube brevi ferruginea novella, petiolos inflorescentiam iniluente, sub foliis 

 rariore. — /Vj;na (piassiotdes Hamilt. mss, — Simaba quasBiuides Don. — Bnicea 

 Napalensis Wall. — Crescit in Napalia. 



4. P. AILANrHOiDE.S Planchon 1. c. — Glaberrima (excepta gemnia terminali) : folio- 

 lis 7 — 11, ovato-oblongis acuminatis, glamluloso-serratis ; cyma (mascula) brevi pau- 

 cinora; floribus pentameris. — lihus aUunthoides linge. — Crescit iii Cliiuae mon- 

 tibus Zui wey-Schan. 



5. P. EXCEL.S.\ Planchon I. c. 574. — Foliolis — II ovato-oblongis , obtuse acumi- 

 iiatis, bast obliquis, iiitegerrimis, supra glabris lucidis, subtiis in nervis puberulis vel 

 glabris ; cymis terminalibus , foliis brevioribus, (lichotomis pedicellisque brevibus 

 pube brevi simplici lutesceiite , interdum subresinosa indutis. — Qitassia excelsa Sw. 

 — Siinaruba? excelsa DC. — Picranena excetsa Lindl. — Crescit in sylvis Jamaicae 

 et Antiguae. 



6. P. VELLOZII Planchon 1. c. — Foliolis 9 — 11 oblongis, basi acuta valde obliquis 

 remote glanduloso-serratis glabrescentibus submembranaceis ; cymis terminalibus; 

 pubescentibus; floribus P. excelsae. — Aeschryun crenata Fl. Fluni. 1. t. 152. — Cre- 

 scit in insula St. Catharinae et lirasilia meridionali. 



XI. (5970.) BRUCIIA Mill. 

 (DC. Prodr. II. 88. — Wlprs. Piepert. L 519. — Planchon in Hook, LonJ, journ. of 



bot. V, 574.) 



Flores dioico-polygami. Caiyx quadripartitus, Petala quatuor mi- 

 nuta linearia, apice intlexa. Jlasc: Stamina quatuor, sub disco quadrl- 

 lobo glanduiiformi inserta, petalis alterna, filamenta nuda, antherae 

 subrotundae biloculares , loculis introrsis, connectivo non conspicuo se- 

 junclis. Foc/ii.: Stamina 4 effoeta (in hermaphrod, fertilia). Ovaria qua- 

 tuor gynophoro depi-esso insidentia approximata uniovulata. Styli toti- 

 dem lineares breves subapicales recurvo-pateates, intus stigmatosi. Dru- 

 pae 4 subsiccae parvae , endocarpio rugoso ab epicarpio non solubili. 

 Semen Ai/aii//u', sed non compressum. — Krutices inter tropicos Africae 

 et insularum Indiae vigentes: foliis alternis exstipulatis imparipinnatis, 

 foliolis basi obliijuis integerrimis vel grosse serratis, glomerulis fiorum 

 densis vel cymulis brevibus in spicas strictas dispositis, ttoribus incon- 

 spicuis purpurascentibus, pedicellis brevibus basi bracteolatis. Pubes 

 simplex rufescens, saepius densa novella, imprimis petiolos intlorescen- 

 tiam, imo calyces et petala induens. Sapor amarissimus, vires, ut plu- 

 rium affinium, febrifugae. 



1. BR. ANTIDYSENTERICA IMill. — DC, I. c. — Planchon I. c. 575. — Pubescenti- 

 hirsuta: foliolis integris ; glomerulis florum interrupte spicatis ; calycibus petalisque 

 extus dense liirtellis. — Crescit in Abyssiniae collibus siccis prope Adoam. 



2. RR. P.\MCULATA Lamk. — DC. 1. c, - Planthuii I. c. — Tenuissime pubescens vel 

 subglabrata: foliolis integerrimis; corjmbulis spicatis ; calycibus, iiillorescentia pedi- 

 cellisque parce et adpresse pilosis, — Dr. Cuineensis Don, General syst. 1. 800. — 

 Wlprs. I. c. 110. I, — Crescit in montibus Sierra Leone Africae occidentalis. 



3. RR. SU3L\TRANA Roxb, — Planchon I. c, — Velutiao-pubescens vcl subglabrata : 



