360 XXXII. siMARUBE^. [Harrison ici. 



Order XXXII. SIMARUBE^. 



Trees or shrubs, usually bitter with pinnate, rarely simple 

 leaves, alternate; stipules o. Inflorescence axillary, racemes 

 panicled or cymose. Flowers usually unisexual and small, regular. 

 Calyx 3- to 5-lobed, valvate or imbricate. Petals 3 to 5 (rarely 

 o). Disc annular or elongate (rarely o). Stamens as many or 

 twice as many ; filaments free, often with a scale at base ; anthers 

 oblong, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, lobed, 

 I- to 6-celled; st3des 2 to 3 free. Fruit drupaceous, capsular or 

 samaroid of 2 to 6 carpels. Seeds solitary, pendulous, albuminous. 

 Species 130, tropical and sub-tropical regions. 



Leaves compound. 



Stamens 8 or 10; thorny bu.sh . . . .1. Harrisonia 



Stamens 4 ; tree; paniculate . . . . .2. Picrasma 



Stamens 4 ; shrub; minute cymes in racemes . . 3. Brucea 



Stamens 5 ; tall shrub ; panicles spreading large . 4. Eurycoma 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers umbelled on long peduncles ; fruit large ovate, 



winged; small tree . . . . . • 5- Samadera 



Stamens 10 ; flowers panicled ; gigantic tree ; fruit like 



a mango ........ 6. Irvingia 



1. HARRISONIA, Brown. 



Glabrous spiny shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate or i-foliate. 

 Flowers unisexual in bracteate cymes. Calyx small, 4- to 5-fid. 

 Petals 4 to 5, longer. Disc hemispherical. Stamens 8 to 10, 

 dilate at base. Ovary globose or 4- or 5-lobed; ovules solitary; 

 styles connate or free at base. Fruit a small globose berry with 

 2 or 3 pyrenes. Species 3 to 4, tropics of Old World. 



Leaves 5- to 9-foliate; rachis winged; flowers terminal 



•2 in long . . . . . . . . (i) H. Bennettii 



Leaves 3-foliolatc ; rachis not winged ; flowers axillary, 



•I in. long . . . . . . . ". (2) H. Brownii 



(i) H. Bennettii Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 314; F.B.I, i. 519. 

 Lasiolepis paucijuga and multijuga Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 202, t. 42. 



Scandent sarmentose shrub, thorny. Leaves 2"5 in. long, 

 5- to 9-foliolate ; rachis flattened or winged ; leaflets ovate-rhom- 

 boid crenate, 75 in. long, '5 to 7 in. wide. Cymes terminal, 2 in. 

 long, 8- to 20-flowered; pedicels "i in. long, hairy. Calyx small; 

 sepals ovate acute. Petals dull red lanceolate, •2in. long. Filaments 

 unequal, white slender, scales at base hairy. Styles united, hairy. 

 Fruit of 3 to 5 carpels. Hab. Open countr}^ Perhs at Kanga. 

 Distrib. Burma, Siam, China, Malay islands. 



(2) H. Brownii Jitss. Mem. Mits. Par. xii. 517, 540, /. 28 ; King, 

 I.e. 227. 



Shrub, prickly. Leaflets 3, ovate to rhomboid acuminate, 

 serrate, narrowed at base petiolulate; rachis not winged, "6 to 



