8ima/ri(ha 



SIMARUBACE^ 



199 



Hope; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 5931, 8664, 9358, 9551— Bahamas, Hispaniola, 

 Central America. Florida. 



Tree 20-30(-50) ft. high. Leaflets 9-19, oblong-elliptical or oblong, 

 puberulous beneath or glabrous, 4-10 cm. L, apex rounded, sometimes 

 subemarginate or obtusely apiculate, base wedge-shaped; veins distinct 

 beneath, lateral parallel connected reticulately. Panicles ample, ite 

 short branchlets with few flowers; pedicels short, 1-8 "5 mm. 1. Calyic 

 1-3 mm. 1., lobes semiorbicular, minutely ciliolate. Petals greenish-yellow, 

 oblong-elliptical, 5-6 mm. 1.,. apex acute or shortly acuminate. Stamens, 

 scales villose ; anthers linear-oblong, 1*3-1 '8 mm. 1. Drupes ellipsoidal, 

 dark purple, about 1'5 cm. 1. 



The wood is light and soft, and is of little value. 



Fig. Qi.—Simartiba glauca DC. 



S, Portion of leaf, nat. size. D, Stamen, enlarged. 



B, Portion of male inflorescenee x J. E, Female flower cut lengthwise x 4. 



F, Drupe with seed cut lengthwise, nat. 

 size. 

 (A, B, C, E after Sargent.) 



C, Female flower, diagram. 



S. amara Aubl. (Quassia Simaruba Linn. f. Suppl. 234) occurs in some 

 of the West Indian Islands, but is wrongly stated by Linnseua fil. to be a 

 native of Jamaica. The drupe of this species is about the same size as 

 that oi S. glauca, and more regular in form, not so compressed and acute 

 on the ventral side. 



Quassia slmapa Linn. fil. is noted by Planchon (Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. 

 v. 562) as sent from Jamaica by Distin, but it is an introduced plant from 

 tropical S. America. It is readily recognised by the large crimson corolla 

 (3 cm. 1.), and the winged petiole. 



