26 XLYI. ANACAEDIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Swintonia. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich MALACCA, Maingay. 



A large tree. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., coriaceous, obscurely reticulate above, more 

 distinctly beneath ; nerves strong, nearly straight ; petiole 1-lf in. Panicles 

 terminal and in the uppermost axils, branched from the base, curved, a foot long and 

 more, together forming a drooping mass of long arched finely pubescent angled (when 

 dry) peduncles, that branch towards their ends into slender tomentose branchlets 

 with innumerable softly downy flowers ; bracts large, obovate, concave, very mem- 

 branous. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, | in. long. Calyx narrow-ovoid, very 

 membranous, almost 2-valved. Petals linear-oblong, inserted towards the base of the 

 disk, villous on both surfaces. Stamens 5. Disk short. "Wallich, who assumed this 

 to be Jack's Stagmaria verniciflua ( Gluta Benghas, L.), found a tree of it in the forest 

 of Sincapore, close to Botany Hall, which, I assume, was his temporary residence. 



8. SWZNTONZA, Griff. 



A tall tree, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, simple, quite 

 entire. Panicles terminal and axillary, very large and broad. Flowers small 

 hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx small, 5-lobed, lobes rounded imbricate. 

 Petals 5, adnate to the middle of the disk, linear-oblong, imbricate, much 

 enlarged and reflexed in fruit. Disk short or elongate or cylindric. Stamens 

 5, inserted on the top of the disk, free. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 1-celled, narrowed 

 into the slender style ; stigma capitellate ; ovule pendulous from a basal funicle. 

 Drupe ovoid, smooth, sessile, coriaceous, subtended by the 5 reflexed enlarged 

 petals. Seed erect, testa thin; cotyledons amygdaloid. DISTKIB. The 

 following are the only species known. 



1. S. Griffith!!, Kurz in Jour. Beng. As. Soc. 1870, ii. 75; leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at both ends, petiole long slender, panicle much 

 larger than the leaves lax spreading quite glabrous, branches very slender, 

 flowers pedicelled. Swintonia, Griff, in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1846, 283. Astro- 

 petalum 1, Griff. Notul. iv. 411, t. 565, f. 2, b. c. d. 



TENASSERIM, at Mergui, Griffith ; Heifer. 



A lofty tree, glabrous throughout ; branchlets very slender. Leaves 4-7 by 1 1 

 in., sometimes subopposite or 3-nate ; tip obtuse ; margin waved, obscurely reticulate 

 above and beneath; nerves 16- 20 -pairs, very slender ; petiole 1 in. Panicle copiously 

 branched from near the base. Flowers long-pedicelled, ^ in. diam, Petals linear- 

 oblong, quite glabrous, rapidly enlarging. Fruit unknown. I do not find the 

 irregular pellucid dots which Griffith describes. Habit of a Mango, conspicuous 

 for its dense masses of flowers which, when bruised, emit a peppery smell. 



2. S. Heifer!, Hook. f. ; leaves narrow-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 base acute, margins undulate, petiole long slender, panicles much longer than the 

 leaves lax spreading quite glabrous, flowers pedicelled. 



TENASSERIM or ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Heifer, 



Very nearly allied to 8. Griffithii, but branchlets stouter. Leaves much longer, 

 6-10 by 1-1| in., drawn out into longer points, with more numerous (25-30) pairs of 

 nerves, rather stouter petioles, and more waved margins ; they are also of a dark 

 brown colour when dry, whereas those of 8. Griffithii are pale greyish-brown. Drupe 

 (ripe) obovoid, in. The reflexed petals 2 in. long, linear, obtuse, veined, glabrous. 



3. S. Schwenkii, Teysm. fy Binnend. Cat. Hort. Bo(/or.230', leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate tip obtuse rounded or obtusely acuminate, base rounded 

 glaucous beneath, petiole very slender, panicles excessively branched longer or 

 shorter than the leaves, flowers minute subsessile. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 



