518 xxxiv. SIMARUBEJE. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Ailantus. 



1. AILANTUS, Desf. 



Lofty trees. Leaves very large, alternate, unequally pinnate. Flowers 

 small, polygamous, bracteolate, in terminal or axillary panicles. GW/M' 

 5-fid ; lobes equal, imbricate. Petals 5, valvate. Disk 10-lobed. Stamens 

 10 (in the hermaphrodite flowers 2-3) ; filaments short or filiform, without 

 scales. Ovary 2-5-partite; styles connate; ovules 1 in each cell, semi- 

 anatropous. .Fruit of 1-5 1-seeded samaras ; wing very large, membranous. 

 Seed, pendulous, sparingly albuminous. DISTRIB. India, China, Australia ; 

 species 3-4. 



A.- GLANDULOSA, Desf. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 89 ; leaves pubescent or sub- 

 glabrous, leaflets very coarsely toothed at the base, filaments elongate. 

 Brandis Fo?\ Flor. 58. 



Northern India, probably introduced. DISTRIB. China. 



A lofty tree. Leaves often exceeding 1 ft. ; leaflets very numerous, divided very un- 

 equally by the midrib, paler beneath. Flowers small, in much-branched pan'u }>.<. 

 Filaments filiform, exserted, several times exceeding the anther. Fruit of about 3 

 membranous linear-oblong samaras, about 1J by ^ in. Seed near the centre of the 

 samara, about by -^ in. 



1. A. excelsa, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t 23 ; Fl. Tixl ii. p. 450 ; leaves 

 glandular-hairy, leaflets very coarsely toothed, filaments short, samara 

 large red twisted. DC. Prodr. ii. 89; II'. <r J. /'/W/-. !:><>; Wi'//it III. i. 

 t. 67; Grafi. Cat. Bomb. PL 37; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 4(i ; Wall. 

 Cat. 8481 ; Brandis For. Flor. 58. 



N. W. INDIA (probably introduced) ; BEHAR, and WESTERN PENINSULA. -DiSTRiB. 

 Queensland (var. iml rliijlora). 



A tree 60-80 ft. Leaves 1 ft. or more ; leaflets very mum-rims, on long petioles, very 

 unequal at the base. 7'7o"vr.- - l:ir_ r i r than in .1. (/linnfuluna, on longish pedicels, in large 

 lax often very much-branched panicles. I'ctnl* ovate lanceolate, commonly reflexed. 

 Filaments half the length of the anther. Samara larger than in A. glandulosa, 2 in. 

 by o i"., st.-on^ly veined, blunt or pointed at both ends, copper-red, always once or twice 

 twibted at the base. 



2. A. malabarica, DC. Prodr. il 89 ; leaflets almost entire nearly 

 glabrous on long petioles very unequal at the base, filaments filiform,' 

 samara large rounded, W. & A. Prodr. 150; Wi'/Jif Tc.i. 1604; /'// //',, '/,. s 

 En am. 69 ; Grah. Cat. lininb. PI. 37 ; Dah. & Gibs, limnb. I'l. 4(5 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Syle. t. 122 ; Brandis For. Flor. 58,Rheede I fort. Mai. vi. t. 15. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, in Canara, &c. ; CEYLON, near Colombo, and district of the 

 Seven Corles. DISTHIB. Cochin China. 



A lofty tree. Leaves very larixe ; leaflets distant, coriaceous, much lighter beneath, 

 the two sides very unequal, margin often thickened and wavy. Flowers as in A. excelsa, 

 but rather larger, and filaments very slender, exserted, many times longer than the 

 anther, fiamara broadly line. in., reddish, not twisted, rounded at both ends. 



2. SAHZADERA, Gacrtn. 



Larger or smaller glabrous trees. Leaves simple. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 in peduncled axillary or terminal umbels. Calyx small, 3-5-partite, im- 

 bricate. Petals 3-5, much longer than calyx, coriaceous, imbricate. Disk 

 large, conical. Stamens 8-10, included in the corolla, with a. small scale at 

 the base. Carpels 4-5, distinct, free ; styles free at the base, more or less 

 united above, stigmas acute ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit of 1-5 

 large dry compressed 1-seeded drupes, each with a narrow unilateral wing. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical Asia and Madagascar. Species 3. 



