XXXIII. SIMARUBACE^. 195 



Cat. p. 37; Engler, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 4, p. 211, 

 fig. 120 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 231 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 35 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 451. 



KoNKAN : throughout the S. Konkan jungle, Nimmo ex Graham ; jungles near Goa, 

 Br. Lush ; along river-banks, Talhot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 

 The tree furnishes the Nlepa bark of commerce. — See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



3. BALANITES, Delile. 



Spiny shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, 2-foliolate ; leaflets cori- 

 aceous, entire. Flowers greenish, in axillary cymes, fragrant. Sepals 5, 

 concave, imbricate. Petals 5, oblong, spreading, glabrous or villous, 

 imbricate. Stamens 10, inserted in the furrows at the base of the disk ; 

 filaments naked, filiform, subulate ; anthers inserted at the back. Disk 

 thick, depressed-conic or pulvinate, 10-grooved, hollowed at the apex. 

 Ovary globose, half-immersed in the disk, villous, 5-celled ; ovule solitary 

 in each cell, linear, pendulous below the apex of the cell ; style short, 

 subulate, terete or 5-furrowed ; stigmas 1 or 5, simple, minute. Drupe 

 fleshy, oily ; putamen bony, 5-angled, 1-celled, l-seeded. Seed pendu- 

 lous, ovoid ; testa subfibrous ; albumen 0, embryo green, ovoid ; 

 cotyledons thick, oblong, plano-convex, sometimes corrugated or 

 2-lobed ; radicle superior. — Distrib, Northern and Tropical Africa, 

 Tropical and Western Asia ; species 2. 



1. Balanites Roxburghii, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, v. 2 

 (1854) p. 258. A small tree rarely reaching 30 ft. high ; young parts 

 pubescent or toraentose ; branches yellowish-green, glabrous or pube- 

 rulous ; spines 1-1^ i^i- ^o^^gi axillary, straight, strong, very sharp. 

 Leaves 2-foliolate; petioles g-^ in. long; leaflets elliptic or obovate, 

 obtuse or subacute, sometimes slightly mucronate, base usuallv acute ; 

 petiolules very short. Flov\ers small, greenish-white, fragrant, in 

 axillary few- or many-flowered short-pedunoled cymes or fascicles. 

 Sepals ovate, g in. long, pubescent outside, silky within. Petals oblong- 

 obovate, glabrous outside, silky villous within, very little longer than 

 the sepals. Filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers attached at the back. 

 Disk cupular, with a 10-lobed glandular margin. Ovary silky-villous ; 

 style short, conical. Drupes large, ovoid, woody, angular, 1-2 in. long, 

 5-grooved. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 522 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 35 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 268; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 1, p. 363. — Flowers: Mar .-May. Veen. Hingu; Himjanhet. 



Engler & Prantl (Pflanzenf. v, 3, part 4, p. 355, fig. 189) unite this 

 with B. (fcpiptiaca, Delile, a species growing in N. and Tropical Africa 

 which is distinguished from B. Roxburghii by its glabrous petals. 



Konkan: Bombay, Capt. Geburnel Deccan: widelJ^ Woodrow; Ahmednagar, 

 Cooke], Woodrow'. S. M. Country : Dharwar, Coo/cel, Woodrow I Gujakat : Ahmed- 

 abad, Cooke I — Distkib. Drier parts of India. 



Order XXXIV. OCHNACE^. 



Trees or shrubs with watery juice. Leaves alternate, glabrous, simple 

 (very rarely pinnate), coriaceous, stipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 usually paniculate, rarely solitary. Sepals 4-5, free, imbricate. Petals 

 4-12 (usually 5), free, deciduous, spreading, imbricate. Disk enlarged 



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