300 Il6. SIMARUBACEAE 



Ovaries free. Styles united. Fruit consisting of i — 5 nuts or drupes. 

 [Subtribe simarubinae.] 5 



5. Leaves undivided. Flowers in umbels. Calyx 3 — 5-lobed, imbricate in 



bud. Petals with contorted aestivation. Filaments with a minute 

 scale at the base. Style long ; stigma small, entire. F"ruits woody. 

 Trees. — Species 2. Madagascar. Used medicinally. 



Samadera Gaertn. 

 Leaves pinnate. Flowers in racemes or panicles 6 



6. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate in bud. Petals 5, with contorted aestivation. 



Filaments with a short scale. Style long ; stigma slightly 5-lobed. 

 Leaflets lanceolate, acuminate. — Species i. West Africa. Yields 



arrow-poison and is used in medicine Quassia L. 



Calyx 2 — 4-lobed or -cleft. Petals with imbricate aestivation. Filaments 

 with a long scale. Style short. Flowers in panicles 7 



7. Calyx 4-, rarely 5-Iobed. Petals 4, rarely 5. Fruits wood^^ Leaflets 



oblong or obovate. — Species 3. Equatorial regions. The seeds 

 yield a fat. (Under Quassia L.) . . Odyendea (Pierre) Engl. 

 Calyx at first closed, later on unequally 2 — 4-cleft. Petals 5, rarely 6 — 9. 

 Stigma 5-parted. Fruits drupe-like. — Species 4. Central Africa. 

 They yield timber, oily seeds, and medicaments. . Hannoa Planch. 



8. Calyx shortly lobed. Anthers shorter than the filaments. Ovaries 



united below. Leaflets with a spoon-shaped appendage at the tip. — 

 Species i. \\'est Africa (Cameroons) . . Pierreodendron Engl. 

 Calyx deeply divided. Anthers longer than the filaments. Ovaries free. 

 Leaflets with an awl-shaped appendage at the tip. — Species i. West 

 Africa Mannia Hook. fil. 



9. (2.) Stamens 4 — 6. Carpels free, either as to the ovaries or as to the 



styles. Flowers usually polygamous. 10 



Stamens 8 — 10. Fruit drupe-like. Trees 12 



10. Sepals 3. Petals 3. Stamens 6. Carpels 2, united at the base. Stigma 



subsessile, discoid. Fruit 2-celled, winged. Leaves undivided. — 



Species i. Seychelles. [Tribe SOULAMEEAE.] Soulamea Lam. 



Sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels 4. Stigma small. Leaves pinnate. 11 



11. Ovaries and styles free or united at the base only. Petals short. Fruit 



consisting of 4 drupes. Rusty-hairy plants. — Species 5. Central 

 Africa. Used medicinally. [Tribe PICRASMEAE.] Brucea J. S. Muell 

 Ovaries united ; styles free. Petals long. Fruit separating into 4 leather}' 

 mericarps suspended from a central column. — Species 5. Central 

 Africa. [Tribe KIRKIEAE.] Kirkia Oh v. 



12. Carpels free for the greater part. Leaves pinnate. — Species i. Mada- 



gascar. Poisonous Perriera Courchet 



Carpels wholly united. Leaves undivided. Flowers hermaphrodite . 13 



13. Stigma 2-parted. Ovary 2-celled. Disc ring-shaped, lobed. Anthers 



oblong. Flowers soHtary or in clusters in the axils of the leaves. — 

 Species i. South Africa. (Under N ectaropclalum Engl.) Peglera Bolus 



