Brucea.} xxxiv. SIMARUBE^:. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 521 



panicles. Calyx minute, 4-partite, imbricate. Petals 4, minute, linear, 

 imbricate. Disk 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted beneath the disk ; filaments 

 naked. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, or consisting of 4 entirely free carpels. 

 Drupes 4, entirely free, ovoid, somewhat fleshy. Seed solitary, exalbu- 

 minous. DISTKIB. Africa, Tropical Asia, Australia ; species 6. 



1. B. sumatrana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 449 ; leaves very large, leaflets 

 numerous very coarsely toothed villous beneath, panicles very long Com- 

 pound, flowers usually hermaphrodite, filaments short. DC. Prodr. ii. 88 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8482 ; Blume Bijd. 1167. 



ASSAM; EASTERN PENINSULA; in Tenasserim and the Andaman Islds., Heifer; 

 Sincapore, Wallich. DISTRIB. Borneo, Sumatra, Java', Philippines, South China, 

 Australia . 



A shrub with bitter and somewhat foetid properties. Leaves often more than a foot 

 long, covered with a dense yellow pubescence, especially on the veins, &c. beneath, 

 the lowest leaflets sometimes compound. Panicles axillary ; rachis greatly elongated, 

 yellow-pubescent; the minute flowers collected into small rather distant stalked cymes. 

 Calyx very minute. Petals larger than the calyx-segments, linear-spathulate. Stamens 

 not exceeding petals in length. Drupes -J in., black, glabrous, reticulated. 



2. B. mollis, Wall. Cat. 8483; leaflets numerous lanceolate-acute entire 

 usually pubescent, racemes compound, drupes ovoid. Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xlii. pt. ii. p. 64. 



Subtropical EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 3-6000 ft., Griffith, and 

 SILHET, Wallich. 



A bitter shrub. Leaflets larger than in B. sumatrana, 3 by 2 in., from pubescent to 

 nearly glabrous. Panicles axillary; rachis pubescent or nearly glabrous; secondary 

 cymes-soften many-flowered. Petals linear, longer than the stamens. Drupes much 

 larger than in B. sumatrana, ^-\ in., brown, glabrous, scarcely reticulated. 



6. EURYGOTOA, Jack. 



Small trees, with bitter bark. Leaves very large, unequally pinnate, with 

 entire leaflets. Flowers polygamous, in much-branched subterminal hairy 

 panicles. Calyx minute, 5-toothed, valvate. Petals 5, induplicate-valvate. 

 Disk 0. Stamens in male and hermaphrodite flowers 5, smaller in the 

 latter ; filaments attached to the base of the petals. Ovary 5-partite, free ; 

 styles 5, connate, stigmas distinct. Drupes 3-5, stipitate. Seed solitary, pendu- 

 lous, exalbuminous. DISTKIB. Malacca, Archipelago, Philippines. Species 2. 



1. E. longifclia, Jack, Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 307 ; leaflets elliptic 

 acute, panicles glandular-hairy, calyx-segments glandular, petals ovate- 

 lanceolate, filaments appendiculate. D G. Prod r. ii. 86 ; Wall. Cat. 8522; 

 Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 584. E. merguensis, Planch. I.e. 

 E. tavoyana, Wall. Gat. 8523. 



TENASSERIM, Parish, and the ANDAMAN ISLDS., Heifer, to MALACCA, PENANG, and 

 SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. 



A tree with bitter properties. Leaves a foot or more long, with a large number of 

 coriaceous (often not opposite) leaflets, much paler beneath. Panicles large, spreading, 

 and much-branched ; rachis and pedicels covered with a rufous glandular pubescence. 

 Petals 4 times as long as calyx-segments, by -^ in. broad, very finely pubescent 

 within and without. Filaments broad, half as long as the petals, glabrous, with a 

 ligulate ciliated appendage at the base. Drupes hard, ovoid, ^ in. long, in. broad. 

 I am unable to distinguish the specimen of Planchou's E. merguensis in the Hookeriau 

 Herbarium by the alleged character of the filaments ; otherwise it precisely resembles 

 the type. 



