Jfyle.] xxxin. RUTACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 517 



6379 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 31 ; Brandis For. Flor. 57. Feronia 

 pellucida, Roth. Nov. Sp. 384. Crataeva Marmelos, Linn. 0. religiosa, 

 AimlieMat. Med. Ind. (fid. Wight] not of Vahl.KheedeHort. Mai. iii. t. 35. 



Throughout INDIA, in dry hilly places, from the Jhelum to Assam and southwards to 

 Travancor ; wild or cultivated, ascending to 4000 ft. in the W. Himalaya. 



A small deciduous glabrous tree ; spines 1 in., straight, strong, axillary. Leaflets 

 3-5, ovate-lanceolate, lateral sessile, terminal, long-petioled. Flowers 1 in. diam., 

 greenish-white, sweet-scented ; pedicels and calyx pubescent. Filaments sometimes 

 fascicled. Fruit 2-5 in. diam., globose oblong or pyriform, rind grey or yellow ; pulp 

 sweet, thick, ofange-coloured. A species or variety with oblong fruit is grown in Birma, 

 of which I have seen the fruit only. The Bael tree, 

 f 



At p. ?,$?, Dr. Musters has referred Heritiera attenuata,WaM. Cat. 1140, to Rutacecz 

 as a species of Niota. That genus is however now merged in Samadera in Sima- 

 rubece. WaUich's plant, of which the specimens are imperfect, may be certainly iden- 

 tified with Brownlowia lanceolata, Benth. Steudel, quoting from Wall. Cat. p. 157, 

 the ms. name Niota ? polyandra, has misread the authority H. Ham. (Herb. Ham.) as 

 W. & A., and has further referred the plant to Vittmannia. 



ORDER XXXIV. SIMARUBEJE. (By Alfred W. Bennett, F.L.S.) 



Trees or shrubs, almost always with bitter bark. Leaves alternate, often 

 very large, pinnate or rarely simple ; stipules or deciduous. Inflorescence 

 axillary, racemose paniculate or cymose, rarely spicate. Flowers usually 

 diclinous, regular, and generally small. Calyx 3-5-lobed, valvate or im- 

 bricate. Petals 3-5, very rarely 0, hypogynous, valvate or imbricate. Disk 

 annular or elongate, simple or lobed, rarely 0. Stamens as many or twice as 

 many as the petals, rarely indefinite, inserted at the base of the disk ; fila- 

 ments free, often with a scale at the base ; anthers oblong, usually introrse, 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, 1-6-celled, usually deeply 

 lobed, less often entire ; styles 2-5, free or more or less united, stigmas 

 capitate ; ovules usually solitary in each cell, rarely more numerous, raphe 

 ventral, micropyle superior. Fruit drupaceous, capsular, or occasionally 

 samaroid, usually of 2-6 distinct carpels. Meeds usually solitary, erect or 

 pendulous, albuminous ; embryo straight or curved, radicle superior. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres ; genera 30 ; 

 species about 120. 



TRIBE I. Eusimarubeoo. Ovary deeply divided. 



Ovules solitary in each cell. 



Stamens twice as many as petals. 



Leaves pinnate ; fruit samaroid 1. AILANTUS. 



Leaves simple ; fruit drupaceous, variously winged .... 2. 8 



Stem spiny ; filaments with a scale ; fruit baccate ;>. ] ' 



Stamens as many as petals. 



Disk thick, entire ; flowers panicled ; styles connate .... 4. PICRASMA. 



Disk 4-lobed ; flowers compoundly cymose ; styles nearly free . 5. Ri;r 



Disk ; flowers panicled ; styles connate 6. KI'UIVOMA. 



Ovules 2 in each cell ; leaves simple 7. SURIANA. 



TRIBE II. Picramnieae. Ovary entire ; 2-5-celled. 



Ovary 2-celled ; leaves simple 8. IRVINGIA. 



Ovary 5-celled ; stem spiny ; leaves 2-foliolate 9. BALANITES. 



