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Saharanpur. Leafless in the early part of C.S. New leaves in March, April. Fl. April. 

 May. 2. A. glandulosa, Deaf. Japan. China, cultivated in Northern India, leaves 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous, leaflets with a few glandular teeth near the base, other- 

 wise entire, petals woolly-tomentose inside, filaments larger than anthers, hispid at 

 base, ripe carpels 1—2 in. 



3. A. malabarica, DC: Wight, Ic. t. 1604; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 122. 

 Vera. Dhup, GugguL dhup, Ivan. : Peru, Tarn. 



A lofty tree, bark thick, rough, often with bright reddish grains of resin, 

 leaflets 5-10 pair, glabrous, entire, lanceolate, filaments glabrous, much longer 

 than anthers, ripe carpels oblong rounded at both ends 3-5 by J in. 



Evergreen forests along the Western Ghats from the Konian southwards, from the 

 coast to 3,000 ft. Pegu Yc'ina. eastern slopes, Kurz. F. Fl. i. 201. Fl. February, March. 

 The resin (matlipa!) used in medicine and as incense. Ceylon. Malay Peninsula. 

 ( 'liina. 



Eurycoma longifolia, Jack, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, is an 

 evergreen shrub or small tree, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets 15-20 pair, coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire, shining above, pale beneath, panicles axillary, rusty-glandu- 

 lar, at the ends of branches, shorter than leaves, fl. brownish-red, polygamous, penta- 

 merous, stamens 5, alternating with petals, 5 two-lobed scales (staminodia) opposite to 

 petals. Drupes 3-5, stipitate, hard, ovoid i-ij in. long. 



5. PICRASMA, Bl. : Fl. Brit. Ltd. i. 520. 



All parts very bitter, leaves imparipinnate, fl. unisexual. 4— 5-merous. in 

 corymbose panicles. Stamens 4-5, carpels 3-5, distinct on a thick disk, styles 

 free at base and top, connate in the middle. Fr. of 1-3 fleshy or coriaceous 

 drupes, supported by the persistent calyx and petals. A straight embryo in 

 fleshy albumen. Species 6, tropical and subtropical countries of both hemi- 

 spheres. 



1. P. quassioides, Bennett; Brandis, P. Fl. 39. Vern. TutGi, TithSi. 

 Trita, Pb., N.W. 



A tall, scrambling shrub. L. and inflorescence rjubescenf. Leaflets op- 

 posite, nearly sessile. l-fl pair, serrate. Fl. small, greenish, generally perita- 

 merous. Drupes black, \ in. diam. 



Outer Himalaya, Kashmir to Nepal, ascending occasionally to 8,000 ft. Bhutan, Fl. 

 April-June, china. 



2. P. javanica, Blums ; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 62, ii. (1893) 

 228 (includes /'. nepalensis, Benn.. and P. andamanica, Kurz). 



An evergreen glabrous tree, leaflets 1-3 pair, entire, acuminate. Fl. tetra- 

 merous, greenish-white, drupes 2-1, white, \ in. diam. 



Nepal, sikkiin. Khasi hills. Andamans, Lower Burma. Fl. March. China, Cochin- 

 china, Java. 



6. BRUCEA, Miller: Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 520. 



All parts very bitter, leaves imparipinnate, ll. polygamous, minute, tetramer- 



ous, in axillary panicles. Stamens I. inserted beneath the -1-IoU-d disk. Ovary 

 deeply 4-lobed. Drupes 1. ovoid, somewhat fleshy. Albumen 0. species <>, 

 tropical, from Africa t,, Australia, 



I. B. sumatrana, Etoxb. : Kurz. F. Fl. i. 202. 



A large evergreen shrub, branchlets, leaves and inflorescence tawnj pubes- 

 cent, leallcts opposite, l-i! pair, ovate-lanceolate, coarsely serrate. I'M. purple. 

 in small distant racemiforui panicles, often as long as leaves. Drupes black, 

 ovoid, \ in. long. 



^.ssam, Tenasserim. l-'l. March. Malaj Peninsula and Archipelago, South china. 

 2. B. mollis, Wall, sikkim. BLhasl hill-. Bhutan, Manipur, Burma i %.,-,,, in;.. 



March 1862) leaflets Dearly glabrous, lanceolate, entire, drupes ;. In. long. 



