522 xxxiv. SIMARUBE^E. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Eurycoma. 



2. E. apiculata, A. W. Bennett; leaflets elliptic apiculate, panicles 

 slightly hairy, calyx hairy without, petals ligulate, filaments not appen- 

 diculate. 



PENANG, Maingay. 



Leaves very long ; leaflets ending in an abrupt point, dotted on the lateral veins be- 

 neath. Panicles denser than in E. longifolia; the rachis and pedicels slightly hairy. 

 (7<r/7?/.r-segments riot ciliate. Pttals very narrow, 1 lin. long, i lin. broad, glabrous. 

 Filaments very short, -^ as long as the petals, glabrous, trait unknown. 



7. SURXANA, Linn. 



An insipid littoral shrub. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 conspicuous. _ Calyx 5-partite, imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate. 

 Disk inconspicuous. tit>nn<-it* 10, unequal in length, 5 sometimes barren. 

 Ovary of 5 free carpels ; styles basilar, filiform ; ovules 2 in each carpel, 

 lateral. Fruit consisting of 5 or fewer carpels covered by the persistent 

 calyx, each 1-seeded, indehiscent. See<f ascending, exalbuminous. 



1. S. maritima, Linn. Gen. No. 581 ; DC. Prodr. u. 91 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 361. 



Throughout the tropical shores of India. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan. 



Branches thick, covered with a velvety pubescence. Lea rex about 1 in. long, linoar- 

 spathulate, obtuse, velvety. Flowers -4 in. across, terminal, hidden by the leaves. 

 Petals \ by in. long, equalling the calyx, ovate-acute, yellow. 



8. IRVINOIA, Hook. f. 



Glabrous insipid trees. Leave* simple, coriaceous, entire, with deciduous 

 stipules. Flower* hermaphrodite, in axillary panicles, ebracteate. Calyx 

 small, 4-5-partite, imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. />/*/,: very large, 

 cushion-shaped and folded. Stamens 10, inserted beneath the disk, fila- 

 ments long, slender. Ownj conical, compressed, 2-celled, entire ; style 

 simple, terminal; ovules solitary. Fruit large, drupaceous, 1-seeded. 

 X<r,/ pendulous, exalbuminous. DISTRIB. Species 3-4 ; all but the fol- 

 lowing Tropical African. 



1. I. malayana, Oliver, ms. 



MALACCA, M<iin<inij. 



Branches striated, glabrous, annulatod at or near the nodes. Leaves large and thirl:, 

 4 by 2 in., elliptic, acute, quite entire, pctiolate, base rounded and Konn-wliut unequal. 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx persistent ; 

 lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals twice as long as the calyx-lobes, reflexed after flowering. 

 Filaments as long as the petals. Ovary conical, rising from the centre of a very large 

 disk and narrowing into a terminal style. 



9. BAX.ANXTES, Delile. 



Spiny shrubs or trees. Leaves coriaceous, 2-foliolate, entire. Flowerb 

 green, in small axillary cymes. CV%.x-segments 5, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Petals 5, imbricate. Disk thick, conical, entire. Ovari/ entire, globose, 

 1-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit a large fleshy oily 1-seeded 

 drupe. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous. DISTRIB. Tropical and Northern 

 Africa, Syria, and W. Asia ; species 2 (?). 



1. B. Roxburgh!!, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, ii. 258 ; petals 

 velvety. Brandis. For. Flor. 59. B. segyptiaca, Wall. Cat. 6855 ; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 23 ; Wight Ic. t. 274. Ximenia segyptiaca, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 253. 



Drier parts of India from CAWNPORE to SIKKIM, BEHAR, GOOZEEAT, KANDEISH, and 

 the DECCAN ; BIRMA, Griffith. 



