DISCIFLOR^. 19 



92. Citrus medica, Risso. ("Cedro" of the Italians). 



a. Twig without flowers. 



From Giampilieri, near Messina, 13 May, 1872. "The 

 flowers are luiisexiial." 



93. Citrus species. 



a. Twig without flowers. 



From the garden of M. Chiris, Grasse, 6 July, 1857. 

 h. Twig with flowers. 



Mentone, May, 1866; cultivated. 

 <■. Ditto, \vith spines on the twigs. 

 " This is the orange tree that is raised from pips, and Ls used for 

 giafting the hitter orange upon. The stocks shoot out below and are 

 cut ofif, the leaves then being distilled for essential oil." 



SIMARUBE.-E. 



94. Ailanthus Malabarica, B.C. 



a. Leaves only. 

 From A. F. Sealy, Cochin, 1873. "With a large quantity 

 of the bark." 



95. Brucea antidysenterica. Mill. 



a. Branchlet in fruit, with detached flowering spikes. 



Route de Mai, Gouagoua a Dobrasina ( Abyssinie) ; Quartin- 

 Dillon et Petit, Sept., 1840. Ex Herb. Cosson. 



[This plant is known in Abyssinia under the name of 

 " Wutschinus." The iinier bark is used for dysen- 

 tery and intermittent fever. Rosenthal, Plant. 

 Diaph., p. 873.] 



96. Quassia amara., L. "Guavito amargo." 



a. Branchlet, -oath flowers, young fruits, and detached 

 flowers and fruits. A small tree. 

 In damp woods, Frijoli Station, Panama Railway, 6 Feb., 

 1862. No. 491 ; Sutton Hayes. 



97. Cneorum tricoccum, L. 



a. Fruiting branchlet. 



Hill near Cette, 23 May, 1854. 



BURSERACE^. 



98. Balsamodendron Playfairii, Hook, f. ('Flora of Tropical Africa,' 



vol. I. p. 326, 1868. 



a. Twigs vnth leaves and fruit. 



Somali Country, Captain Playfair; received Dec, 1862. 



[This tree yields Hotai gum, described by Vaughan and 

 Hanbury in Pharm. Joiu-n., vol. xii., p. 227.] 



