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Stamens 6 ; disc 5-lobed ; flowers in long 

 much-branched panicles ; leaves glab- 

 rous ... ... ... 4. Eurycoma. 



Ovary not lobed ; fruit not separating into 



cocci; leaves simple ... ... 5. Irvingia. 



1. HARRISONIA, Brown. 



Glabrous spiny shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate or 1-foliolate. 

 Flotvers hermaphrodite, in bracteate cymes. Calyx small, 4-5-fid. Petals 

 4-5, longer than calyx. Disc hemispherical. Stamens 8-10, dilated at 

 the base. Ovary globose or 4-5-lobed, 4-5-celled ; styles connate or 

 distinct at the base ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit a small globose 

 berry. Seed solitary, sparingly albuminous. — Distrib. Tropics of 

 Old World and of Australia. Species 3-4. 



1. Harrisonia Brows II, A. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. XII, 517, 540, t. 

 28. A shrub ; young branches slender, glabrous, lenticellate, often armed 

 "with sharp conical piickles usually in pairs. Leaflets 3, ovate to 

 rhomboid, acuminate, coarsely serrate; the terminal one the largest, 

 petiolulate, and much narrowed at the base ; the two lateral sessile and 

 slightly narrowed ; length from '6 to 1 in. Flowers 1 to 3, when ex- 

 panded '3 in. long, tetramerous, from small axillary tubercles on slender 

 pedicels from "5 to '75 in. long, buds globose. Petals lanceolate, 

 reflexed. Stamens 8, erect, as long as the petals ; filaments with dilated 

 concave hairy bases, anthers ovate. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled, 

 glabrous. Fruit pisiform, depressed, 3-2- or even 1-celled by abortion, 

 each cell one-seeded ; pericarp coriaceous, glabrous. Planch, in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. V. 669 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. I, 376. 



S. Andaman: Kurz, King's collectors. Distrib. — Timor., N. Austra- 

 lia. Philippines. 



2. PiCRASMA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs with bitter properties. Leaves unequally pinnate. 

 Flowers small, declinous or polygamous, in axillary panicles. Calyx 

 very small, 4-5 toothed. Petals 4-5, valvate, very often increasing after 

 flowering. Disc thick, entire. Stamens 4-5, not scaly, hairy. Ovary 

 3-5-partite, free ; style distinct at the base and apex, but united iia the 

 middle, stigmas simple ; ovules erect, solitary. Frtdt of 1-3 fleshy or 

 coriaceous drupes. Seed erect, albuminous. — Distrib. India, Malay 

 Archipelago, China, Japan, West Indies, Brazil. Species about 4. 



J. PiCRASMA JAVANICA, Blumc, Bijdr, 248. A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; 

 young branches glabrous, dark-coloured, rather slender. Leaflets 3 to 7, 

 membranous, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, more or less 



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