Acronychia.] xxxni. RUTACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 499 



PENANG, Porter, Maingay (Kew distrib. 280) ; MALACCA, Griffith: 

 A lofty tree. Petiole 4 in. ; leaflets 3-6 in., usually shortly acuminate, quite gla- 

 brous and entire, nerves beneath slender, spreading. Cymes 3-4 in. ; peduncle and 

 short branches stout, more or less hoary ; bracts and bracteoles small, persistent, obtuse. 

 Flowers in. diam ; buds T ^ in., puberulous. Sepals 4, fleshy, obtuse. Petals broad, 

 short. Disk pulvinate, bright yellow, glabrous. Filaments with dilated bases. Ovary 

 imperfect; styles minute, rudimentary, connate. Drupe $ in. diam., nearly globose, 

 obtusely 4-angled, minutely pitted, 4-celled, cells 2-seeded. /Seeds subcollateral, oblong- 

 reniform, plano-convex; testa black, brittle. The above description of the flowers is 

 taken very much from Maingay's ins. which was drawn up from fresh specimens. 



11. SK.XBX1KXA, Tlmnb. 



Small glabrous strong scented shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, 

 quite entire. Flowers crowded, in terminal panicles, white, polygamous. 

 Calyx, 4-5-lobed, imbricate. Petals 4-5, oblong, valvate or slightly imbri- 

 cate. Disk obsolete. Stamens 4-5, hypogynous, imperfect in the 2 flower. 

 Ovary obovoid, (of 1-5 rudimentary carpels in the flower) 2-5-celled ; 

 style stout, terminal, or 0, stigma capitate 2-5-lobed ; ovules solitary, pen- 

 dulous from the top of each cell. Drupe ovoid, fleshy, with 2-5 carti- 

 laginous 1-seeded stones. Seed pendulous, testa coriaceous, albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons oblong flat, radicle short. DISTKIB. Species 4, 

 Himalayan and Japanese. 



1. S. Laureola, Hook.f. ; leaves oblong linear-oblong elliptic-lanceolate 

 or obovate obtuse acute or cauc^te-acuminate, flowers 5-merous. Limonia? 

 Laureola, DC. Prodr. i. 536. L. Laureola, Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 23, t. 245 ; 

 Cat. 6357. Anquetilia Laureola^ Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bol. 161, t. 161. Lau- 

 reola fragrans, tioem. Synops. fasc. i. 74. 



Throughout the TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Marri to Mishmi, alt. 6-10,000 ft. ; 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



A glabrous shrub branched from the base, 3-5 ft. high, evergreen, strongly aromatic ; 

 branches and foliage very bright green. Leaves exceedingly variable in size and shape, 

 37 in., softly coriaceous, quite entire, nerves indistinct ; petiole short, stout. Panicles 

 terminal, short, dense-flowered, branched ; females smaller ; bracts and 2 bracteoles deci- 

 duous. Flowers about ^ in- diam., yellowish-white, inodorous, shortly pedicelled. 

 Sepals small. Petals oblong, obtuse. Filaments stout, subulate. Ovary ovoid, mi- 

 nute, conic and 4-cleft in the S flowers. Fruit 4~f in. long ; ellipsoid, red, fleshy. 

 Seeds 1-3; embryo green. Very similar to the Japanese S. japonica, Thunb., but 

 the flowers are 4-merous in that species. 



12. GIilTCOSBXXS, Correa. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves 1-foliolate or imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 alternate. Flowers small, in axillary rarely terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5- 

 partite, segments broad imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens 8-10, 

 free, inserted round a disk, filaments subulate dilated below ; anthers small, 

 with often a dorsal or apical gland. Ovary 2-5-celled ; style very short, 

 persistent, stigma simple ; ovules solitary and pendulous in each cell. />Y/ry 

 small, dry or fleshy, 1-3-seeded. Seeds oblong, testa membranous ; coty- 

 ledons equal, radicle very short. DISTRIB. Species 5, Asiatic and Australian. 



I have followed Professor Oliver in the limitation of the forms of this troublesome 

 Genus, which might very well be included in one species. 



1. G-. pentapkylla, Correa in Ann. Mus. vi. 384 ; leaves 3-5 rarely 

 1-foliulate, leaflets polymorphous usually elliptic-lanceolate, ovary 5- rarely 



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