378 SIMARUBACE.E. Suriana. 



short-stipitate, 2-celled, tapering into the subulate style ; stigma terminal, obtuse ; ovules 

 numerous iu each cell, on central ])laceuta, horizontal or descending, anatropous. Fruit a 

 globular small berry, becoming dry, 2-celled; cells by abortion 1-2-seeded; seed circinate- 

 cochlcate, with crustaceous testa; embryo annular, in a very thin stratum of albumen; 

 cotyledons semiterete ; radicle ascending. 

 8. CANOTIA. Calyx small, 5-lobed, imbricated in the bud, persistent. Petals 5, imbricated 

 in the bud. oblong, enlarging in anthesis, deciduous. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals ; 

 filaments filiform, naked, persistent ; anthers apiculate. Ovary ovoid, with a solid base or 

 gynohase, above with 5 small cells (o])posite the petals) and about 6 ampiiitropous ovules 

 in each cell ; style persistent, elongating ; stigma truncate, 5-crenate. Fruit drupaceous- 

 capsular, oblong-ovoid, pointed with the subulate indurated style ; thin fleshy epicarp at 

 length dry, persistent on tiie woody and thicker endocarp, in age dehiscent above through 

 the persistent style into 10 short and slender-tipped valves; no columella; seeds solitary or 

 a j)air in each cell ; nucleus oval or oblong with a close subcoriaceous coat, below the insertion 

 produced into a membranaceous wing ; embryo straight iu a thin stratum of fleshy albumen ; 

 cotyledons oblong, flat ; radicle short, inferior. 



1. sum Ana, Plum. (Z>. Sunan, a French physician.) — Nov. Gen. 

 37, t. 40 ; L. Gen. no. 852 ; Lam. 111. t. 389 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 313 ; 

 Baill. Hist. PI. iv. 427, 511, f. 526-529. — Single species. 



S. maritima, L. Shrub a yard or two high, soft-pubescent, thickly branched : leaves 

 linear s])atulate, alternate, entire, tliickish and veinless, much crowded on the branches: 

 flowers solitary or few and short-ped uncled in terminal clusters : sepals ovate, acuminate, 

 equalling the yellow petals, 3 lines long. — Spec. i. 284 (Sloaue, Jam. ii. 29, t. 162, f. 4; 

 riuk. Aim. t. 241, f. 5) ; DC. Trodr. ii. 91. — Sea-shore, Florida. (Most tropical coasts.) 



2. AILANTHUS, Desf. Ailantus-tree, Chinese Sumach, &c. 

 {Ailanto, said to be native name of Chinese species, and to mean Tree of Hempen. 

 Name often corrected to Ailantus, but it was published in the other form.) — 

 Mem. Acad. Sci. Par. 1786, 265, t. 8. 



A. glandul6sus, Desf. 1. c. Tall tree, of rapid growth, bitter bark, and somewhat ill-scented 

 foliage, not glandular : leaves very large, pinnately 13-27-foliolate ; leaflets oblong-ovate, 

 acuminate, entire or with a few irregular coarse teeth : flowers in panicles, in early summer, 

 yellowish white, very ill-scented, especially the sterile: keys 2 inches long. — L'Hor. Stirp. 

 Am. t. 84. — Much planted as a shade tree, and often self-sown, especially iu or near eastern 

 towns, becoming naturalized southward. (Nat. from China.) 



3. SIMAH'CTBA, Aubl. Bitter-wood. (Supposed native name.) — Trop- 

 ical American trees, with very bitter bark, alternate abruptly pinnate leaves on 

 naked petioles, and rather small white flowers in terminal and axillary compound 

 panicles. — PI. Guian. ii. 859, t. 331, 332 (Stmarouba) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 i. 309 ; Eugler in Mart. Fl. Bras. xii. pt. 2, 222, t. 45. 



S. glauca, DC. (Paradise-tree.) Tree 30 to 50 feet high, glabrous: leaflets 7 to 12, 

 ciiriareous, shining above, pale and glauceseent beneath, obovate-oblong, commonly retuse, 

 beneath transversely veined from a jjrominent midrib: anthers linear-oblong; short appen- 

 dage to the filament densely villous: drupes olive-shaped, almost inch long, scarlet. — Ann. 

 Mus. Par. xvii. 323, & Prodr. i. 733; Chapm. Fl. 67; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 20, t. 87 (poor); 

 Engler, 1. c. 224.1 g_ medicinalis, Endl. Mediz. 528, &c. Quassia Siinaruha, Wright, Trans. 

 Edinb. Roy. Soc. ii. 73, t. 1, 2. — Keys of S. Florida. (W. Ind. to Brazil.) 



4. C ASTEL A, Turpin. (Eene Castel, wrote a poem upon plants.) — Spinose 

 shrubs (of subtropical American coasts), with small and entire alternate leaves of 

 coriaceous texture, and small flowers solitary or fascicled in their axils. Wood 



1 Add Sargent, Silv. i. 91, t. 38, 39, 



