498 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
conical, more or less sulcate column, stigmatiferous, thickened or 
not so at apex; ovules in germens solitary, descending ; micropyle 
extrorse, superior. Drupes 5 (or by abortion fewer), seated on com- 
mon receptacle ; endocarp more or less thick and hard; coats of 
solitary cell-like seed thin ; embryo exalbuminous thick ; cotyledons 
amygdaloid, plano-convex, equal or unequal; radicle superior, very 
short, retracted, usually cuboid.—Intensely bitter trees or shrubs ; 
leaves alternate, imparipinnate, or more rarely 1—3-foliolate ; folioles 
opposite, entire; rachis more or less articulate between juga; flowers 
in terminal and axillary racemes, simple or oftener ramified, often 
cymiferous; pedicels articulate, bracteolate (Zropical America and 
Africa). See p. 411. 
86. Simaruba Auer.' — Flowers diccious, nearly of Qwassia (or 
Aruba); calyx short, 5-dentate or 5-lobed, imbricated. Petals free, 
patent at apex, contorted. Stamens 10 (effete in female flower), 
inwardly appendiculate; receptacle dilated beyond insertion, de- 
pressed, subhemispherical. Carpels 5 (of Quassia), seated on summit 
of receptacle (sterile in male flower). Drupes 1-5, sessile, patent, 
and seed of Quassia.—Bitter trees; leaves alternate pinnate, folioles 
alternate entire; flowers’ in axillary terminal simple or more or less 
ramified cymiferous racemes (Zropical America’). 
87. Hannoa Pr'— Flowers nearly of Quassia (or Aruba) poly- 
gamous-dicecious, 4-merous; male calyx at first closed, afterwards 
unequally 2, 3-parted, torn. Petals 5, contorted or imbricated, inte- 
rior villous. Stamens 10 (sterile in female flower), inwardly enlarged 
in scales inserted below depressed-10-crenate dilatation of receptacle 
where 4-6 carpels of Qvassia (sterile in male flower) are placed. 
Drupes 1-6, oblong, subreniform small fleshy; seed and embryo 
of Quassia.—-A small bitter tree; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 
folioles long petiolulate coriaceous glandular at apex; flowers’ 

1 Guian., ii., 856, t. 381, 332.—DC., in Ann. vi. 16.—A. S. H., Pl. Us. Bras. t. 5; Fl. 
Mus., xvii. 423; Prodr., i, 733.—A. Juss.,in Bras. Mer., i. 70.— GnIsEB., Fl. De W.-. 
Mém. Mus., xii. 514, t. 27, fig. 44.—Spacu, JInd., 139.—Cuarm., Fl. S. Unit. St. 67.— 
Suit. à Buffon, ii. 374. — ENDL., Gen., n. SEEM., Voy. Her., Bot., 95.—TR., in Ann. Se. 
5963.—B. H., Gen., 309, n. 5. Nat., sér. 5, xv. 357.— WALr., Ann., i, 163; 
2 Small, ordinary. vii, 537. Ai à 
8 Spec. 3, 4. Lamx., Ill, t. 348, fig. 2 4 In Hook. Lond. Jowrn,, v. 566.—B. H. 
(Quassia) — GÆRTN., Fruct., i. 340, t. 70, fig. 1 Gen., 308, n. 3. i 
(Quassia). —H. B. K., Nov. Gen, et Spec., 5 Small, white, odoriferous. 
