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1. R, HITS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, with often an acrid juice. Leaves alternate, simple or 1-3- 

 foliolate or pinnate ; leaflets quite entire or serrate. Floivers small, in terminal 

 and axillary panicles, polygamous. Calyx small, 4-6-parted, persistent ; seg- 

 ments nearly equal, imbricate. Petals 4-6, equal, spreading, imbricate. Stamens 

 4, 5, 6, or 10, inserted at the base of the disk, free ; filaments subulaf% ; anthers 

 short, imperfect in the $ flower. Ovary sessile, ovoid or globose, 1 -celled ; 

 styles 3, free or curvate, short or long ; stigmas simple or capitate ; ovule pendu- 

 lous from a basal funicle. Drupe small, dry, compressed; stone coriaceous, 

 crustaceous or bony. Seed pendulous from the funicle, testa membranous, coty- 

 ledons flattish, radicle hooked short superior. A large genus of about 120 

 species, natives chiefly of warm temperate regions. 



SECT. 1. Cotinus. Leaves simple. Panicle with many flowerless finally 

 elongate capillary hairy pedicels. Flowers bisexual. Drupe obovate, com- 

 pressed, stone triangular. 



1. XI. Cotinus, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii, 4 ; leaves long-petioled 

 elliptic or obovate glabrous ortomentose. Brandts For.Flor. 118. K. velutina, 

 Wall. Cat. 998 (excl. C. in Herb. Linn. Soc.) ; K. laevis, Wall. mss. in G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. ii. 65. 



WESTERN SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; alt. 3-5000 ft., from Marri to Kumaon. 

 DISTRIB. from Syria westwards to France. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 2-4 in., obtuse ; nerves spreading, parallel ; petiole very 

 slender, 1-2 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, very large, slender, and many-flowered. 

 Flowers in. diam. ; pedicels very slender. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals 

 twice as long, elliptic. Stamens shorter than the petals ; anthers large. Disk broad, 

 4-angled. Drupe in., compressed, covered with white hairs.' The numerous hairy 

 flowerless pedicels of the very large copious panicles give this bush a remarkable 

 appearance during and after flowering. Watt. Cat. 998 C. (in Herb. Linn. Soc. only) 

 is Bhus succedanea. 



SECT. 2. Sumac. Leaves 3-foliolate or odd-pinnate. Flowers polygamous 

 dioscious or bisexual. Drupe ovoid or orbicular. 



* Leaves trifoliolate. 



2. XI. parviflora, Eoxb. FL Ind. ii. 100; softly tomentose, leaflets 

 elliptic oblong-obovate or orbicular irregularly crenate above the middle. DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 70 ; Wall. Cat. 991 ; Dak. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl. 19 ; Brandis 

 For. Flor. 119. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; alt. 2-5000 ft., from Kumaon to Nipal. CENTRAL INDIA 

 on the Pashmarchi hills, Brandis. 



An unarmed shrub ; branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles and panicle densely 

 clothed with soft rusty tomentum. Leaves palmate, 3-foliolate; petiole 1-1^ in., 

 stout ; leaflets l-3 in., sessile or the terminal contracted into a petiole, coriaceous, 

 tomentose on both surfaces especially beneath ; nerves spreading, parallel. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, silky, longer than the leaves. Flowers -^ in. diam. ; pedicels 

 very short; bracts linear. Sepals ovate, the outer hairy. Petals twice as long, ob- 

 long. Disk 5-lobed. Drupe in. diam., ovoid, compressed, red-brown, shining. 

 The Ceylon specimens alluded to in Brandis are no doubt cultivated ones. 



3. R. mysorensis, Heyne; W. fy A. Prodr. 172; pubescent, leaf- 

 lets small obovate or cuneate sinuate-toothed or -lobed. Brandis For. Flor. 

 119 ; Beddome FL Sylv. Anal. Gen. 78. t. xi. f. 3 ; Wall. Cat. 997. 



NORTH WESTERN INDIA ; Scind, Stocks ; Eohilkund, near Delhi. WESTERN PANJAB, 

 Sulima range, alt. 2500-5000 ft. WESTERN PENINSULA ; Maisor and the Dekkan. 

 A small shrub ; branches woody, flexuous, often spinous ; branchlets, petioles, 



