520 xxxiv. SIMARUBEJE. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Picrasma. 



4. FSCRASZVTA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs with very bitter properties. Leaves very large, unequally 

 pinnate. Floivers small, diclinous or polygamous, in axillary panicles. 

 Calyx very small, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, valvate, very often increasing 

 after flowering. Disk thick, entire. Stamens 4-5, not scaly, hairy. Ur,i,-if 

 3-5-partite, free ; styles distinct at the base arid apex, but united in the 

 middle, stigmas simple ; ovules erect, solitary. /'///// of 1-3 fleshy or 

 coriaceous drupes. 'Seed erect, albuminous. DISTRIB. India, Archipelago, 

 China, Japan, West Indies, Brazil. Species about 6. 



1. P. quassioides, Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 198 ; leaflets numerous obovate 

 acuminate serrate, flowers polygamous in pubescent panicles, calyx-seg- 

 ments petals and stamens 5, petals persistent in female and hermaphrodite 

 flowers, filaments strap-shaped equalling the petals vill.ms. Plum-h. in 

 Hook. Loud. Jount. /Jot. v. 57: J >; Wall. Cot. sriiHi. Siniaba quassioides, 

 I/'im. in Don Prodr. 248. Nima quassioides, Ham. w**. 



Subtropical Himalaya; from .I.\Mf to NirAL, ascending to 8000ft. in GARWHAI, ; 

 BHOTAN, Grijjitlt. DIMKII;. S. China. 



A large scrambling shrub, with stout often spotted branches and very bitter bark. 

 Leaves a loot or more lonir. of '.) !."> leaflets, tin- lowest pair much .-mailer and stipnli- 

 t'onn. Flawers green. < V////./--se^nn nts small, imliricate. Pttak ovate or obovate, 

 much enlarged and coriaceous in fruit. Fruit of 3-5 rather membranous drupes, about 

 the size of a pea, each containing 1 erect seed. 



2. P. javanica, Blum<> P>ij<l p. 248 ; leaflets 3-7 elliptic-oblong abruptly 



obtusely acuminate quite glabrous, margins Hat quite entire 1 , tips not above 

 ,', - 1 the length of the blade, (lowers 4-merous. jBenn. Fi<>r. .Inc. ]'.)?, t. 41 ; 

 Planch, in Book. 7,o//<7. ./num. r>l. v. .~>7:j. 



MALACCA, Md/>/</<i>/. Disimr,. .Java. 



A moderate- si/ed tree, of which there are two forms (or species) in Java one with 

 elliptic oblong leaflets and a slightly pubescent panicle, and with which the Malacca 

 specimens a^ree; the other with more obovate leaflets and a glabrous panicle. 



VAR. V )iiixliii>i. nrit; leaflets o ',), elliptic oblong more coriaceous, drupes larger, .', in. 

 diam. Mishmi hills near .liim-ha, driflith. 



3. P. nepalensis, 7A////. Flm; J>/r. 201 ; leaflets 5-7 elliptic-lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate quite glabrous, mar-ins waved or wrinkled quite entire, 

 tips ,|-! { the length of the blade, flowers 4-merous. Planch, in Hoolc. Loml. 

 Journ. Bot. v. 573. lirucea? IT'///. C>tf. 7 l ( .!). B. dubia, titeud. Norn. Jnde- 

 terminata, We//. Cf. 11(1:57 (** im'lei- .s.'ioc). 



Nii'AL, Wattich; Khasia Mts., / > N//r//, d'riffith. -^%M 



A smaller and narrower leafleted plant than P. javanica, with longer points to tin- 



leaves which have wrinkled white edges when dry; the branches of the panicle are more 



slender and the anthers lai . 



4. P. andamanica, KHTZ An<l<nn. /></>. A/>/>. iv. ; leaflets elliptic- 

 oblong rounded at the base, abruptly obtusely acuminate quite entire, 

 flowers 4-merous, petals glandular. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kvrz. 



A tree with very smooth branches, closely resembling P. javanica. Leaflets vari- 

 able in number, 5 by 2^ in., thinner, and scarcely thickened at the margin, much more 

 rounded at the base and often unequilateral. Panicle rather lax, perfectly glabrous. 

 One or more of the petals of the male flowers with two large glandular dots. Fruit un- 

 known. 



5. BRUCEA, Mill. 



Bitter trees or shrubs. Leaves very large, unequally pinnate. Flmwrs 

 very small, in very numerous very small cymes collected into axillary 



