44 XLVI. ANACARDIACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rwnpliia. 



DOUBTFUL GENUS. 



22. RUZKFHXA, Linn. 



A very large tree. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, broadly ovate-cordate, 

 toothed, rough, aromatic. Racemes axillary. Flowers bitter. Calyx tubular, 

 3-fid. Petals 3, oblong. Stamens 3, exserted. Ovary subtrigonous ; style 

 simple. Drupe coriaceous, turbinate, 3-grooved ; stone 3-celled, 3-seeded. 



1. R. tilieefplia, Lamk. Diet. vi. 352 ; HI. t. 25 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 90. 

 R. aniboinensis, Linn. Sp. PL 49. Rheede Hort. Mai. iv. 1. 11. 



MALABAR ; stony sandy mountain woods in Parakaroo and elsewhere, Rheede. 



A very large tree ; bark red within, aromatic. Leaves 4-5 by 2|-3 in., aromatic, 

 5-nerved at fehe base ; petiole 1-1 in. Racemes axillary and terminal, shorter than 

 the leaves, woolly. Flowers in. diam^, inodorous. Drupe 1 in. long, obovoid ob- 

 tusely 3-lobed, rough and setose, flesh bitter ; stone triquetrous, 3-celled. 



Of this remarkable plant nothing is known except from the plate and description 

 of Rheede. I follow the majority of authors in placing it at the end of Terebinthacece, 

 with which, however, I suspect it has nothing to do. Jussieu (Gen. PI. 370) suggests 

 that it may be more allied to Sapindacece. To me it looks more like a Euphorbiaceous 

 or Verbenaceous plant. 



Wallich's TEREBINTHAOEA ? No. 8501, ex Herb. Wight, is a mixture of Garuga, 

 pinnata fruits with the leaves and immature fruit of another plant that I do not 

 recognise and which is in a most imperfect state. 



ORDER XLVIL CORIARIEJE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Usually glabrous shrubs, with 4-angled sarmentose branches, the lower op- 

 posite ; buds scaly. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-nateiy whorled, quite entire, 

 sessile, exstipulate. Racemes axillary. Flowers small, green, hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous. Sepals 5, spreading, imbricate, persistent. Petals smaller than the 

 sepals, fleshy, keeled within, thickened after flowering and embracing the fruit. 

 Stamens 10, hypogynous, free or the alternate adnate to the petals, filaments 

 short; anthers large, oblong, rough. Disk 0. Carpels 6-10, free, 1-celled, 

 whorled on a fleshy receptacle ; styles slender, subulate, fleshy, papillose all over ; 

 ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous from the top. Fruit of 5 or 10 oblong com- 

 pressed dry little nuts, closely embraced by the fleshy petals, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 

 Seed compressed, testa membranous, albumen a thin layer ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex, radicle superior. DISTRIB. 3-5 species natives of S. Europe, N. Africa, 

 Japan, the Himalaya, New Zealand, and the Andes. 



An order of doubtful affinity, perhaps nearest TTiytolaccca, which should in this 



work have been placed in Thalamiflorcs. 



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COR2 ARIA. Linn. 



Character of the order. 



1. C. nepalensis, Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. t. 289; Cat. 6817; leaves 

 ovate or elliptic 3-7 nerved, stamens 10, carpels 5. Brandis For. Fl&r. 128. 



TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Marri alt. 3-6000 to Bhotan ; 

 ascending to 11,000 ft. in Sikkim. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



A shrub with arched branches, glabrous or puberulous on the leaves beneath and 

 racemes. Leaves 1-2 by f-1^ in., usually broadly rounded-cordate and abruptly acu- 



