498 xxxin. RUTACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aoronychia. 



10. AC^OSreCHZA, Forst. 



Trees. / or alternate, 1- rarely 3-foliolate, leaflets quite 



entire. Fl</w<'r* small or rather large, yellow, in peduncled axillary and 

 terminal corymbs, polygamous. Calyx 4-lobed, sometimes enlarged after 

 flowering, imbricate, ratals I, spreading, revolute, valvate. Stam* 

 inserted under a thick s-angled tomentose disk, filaments subulate, the 

 alternate longer. n^ary inserted in the hollowed tip of the disk, tomentose, 

 4-celled; style terminal, stigma 4-grooved ; ovules 2, superposed in each 

 cell. Fruit a 4-celled drupe, or 4-valved loculicidal capsule. Seeds often 

 d and pendulous from a slender funicle, testa Mack, albumen copious; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons oblong Hat. DiSTRLB. About 15 species, natives 

 o! tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. 



1. !.~> ; glabrous, leaves subopposite 1 -folio- 



vate or oblong, cymes loiig-peduncled very br<>;>.d 



corymbose, buds linear, petals linear vill>us within. A. pedunculata, Mi'/. 

 ' 



/'/. ln<l. Hat. ,S'///v/. >'>- : 7V//'v///r.s Enm,,. 4(>!) and C!) (Cyniinosina; ; 

 J>'/or. Sylv. A ii"l. (,'>/'. xlii. t. (J, f. 4. ( 'yiiiiiiosma pedunculata, ])('. l'r<lr. 

 :\. m- Wall. Cat. L206j \V. & A. Prodr. i. 147; \Vi<jl<f ///. i. !<;:>, t. 66; 

 Dolt. <V Gibs, ]'><itl>. rim-. XitjnJ. 17. C. Ankenda, U<t ////. /''r/trt. i. iiM>, t. .")S, 

 f. 6 (bad) ; J)C. /.<; C'lauscna simplicifoliji, /A"':, in J\> // .Innrn. Hot. iii. 180. 



>lif era pedunculate, Vahl tiymb. iii. 5%, t. 61, (Jrla lanceolata, 

 /' '. Cock. i. 2'.\ St-l.-is lanccolatui:, . X//.s7. ii. -2\(\. Ximenia ( lan- 



ceolata. />*". J'rodr. i. 5:3;i. Indcturm. IT'///.' Cut. QQSSltheede Hort, Mal.v. 



. 16. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, in hot v;illcys, silt. 3-4000 ft. ; Kn VSIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft. : 

 ASSAM; ( 'urn M.O.N*; ; MA.--|-I:I:N l'i-:MNsrh.\, IVniu Ifangnou to 1'i-i.aii^ ami M 



::N I'KMXSIM.A, on tlio (Jliats from (\iiican to IV.ivanrur, a.scciiaing to oOUO ft.; 

 CKVLIIN. liisiKii'.. Sumatra, .lava, < 'orliin < 'liiiiii. 



A small ulabnuis tree or shrub, with somewhat silky or puberulous young shoots and 

 inflorescence. /><;<*.> vcrv variable; Icallrts '1 (\ in., obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 

 membranous, ijuite entire, much veiin-il and reticulate on Itoth surfaces. ('//ntr axillary, 

 . oppositely branched, spreading, long-peduncled, corymbose; bracts and brao- 

 .-mall. flowen ! -4 in. diam., 1'ragrant, yellowish white ; buds linear-oblong, 

 obtuse; pedicels slender, ^'rjxils very small, roundeil. 7' tain linear-oblong I'rom a 

 broad base, obtuse, n-v.dnt.-, more or less villous on the inner Hiirt'ace. 

 e<Hi;illii]g the [-,eti!s, slender, bearded below. Ovary villous ; style short, stign: 

 late. Drupe v.-ry variable in si/c, tVoin a pea to a small cherry, 3-5-ce'led, glabrate, 

 usually with a narrowed angular or grooved tip, sometimes narrowed at th< 

 times deeply lobed from the tip downwards. 



Y\u. 1 ; leailets oblonir. llowers about }, in. diam. 



\'AI: '_' ; leailets 5-7 in. oblong lanceolate, petals very sparingly villous within, drupe 

 globose -*- in. diam. glabrous. Sikkim, /. D. II . 



YAK. ;i . leaflets 4 f> in. cymes very slender, flowers smaller (1 in.), fruit small con- 

 tracted at the base. Western Peninsula. 



VAK. 4; leatlets very small li-2 by - in. very membranous narrowly elliptic- 

 lanceolate, cymes few-ilowered. I'lilney Mts., Wight. 



\ \n. f > ; cymes tew-llowered, fruit small turbinate lobed at the top. Mergui, 

 !th. 



YAR. 6 ; peduncles stout thick, branches 3-flowered, flowers large almost 1 in. diam., 

 petals much bearded within, fruit nearly | in. diam. subglobose puberulous. 

 jlalacca? JIainyay. 



2. A. Porteri, ffoohf.; leaves opposite 1-foliolate, cymes panicled 

 narrow, buds globose, petals ovate minutely pilose withiu. Wall. Cat. 7756. 



