Aigle. | SIMARUBER. 199 
1, A. marmelos, Corr. wits f. Ind. Fl. i. 516; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. t. 141; Brand. For. Fl. 57. ———_ or ok-shit-—A leaf- 
shedding tree (30—40 4+10—15 +3—4),armed with axillary strong 
paired or sometimes solitary spines, rarely waite TEE the younger 
parts slightly puberulous ; bark greyish, about $ in. thick, rather 
smooth, finally peeling off in small irregular corky dakees leaves 3- 
foliolate, the rachis terete ; leaflets oblong, boondly lanceolate; acute 
or bluntish acuminate, er renulate, soon quite glabrous, the lateral 
ones smaller and shortly petioluled or almost sessile, the terminal one 
much larger and on a rather long naeboeds flowers rather large, 
white, on slender pedicels, forming lax poor terminal or late 
puberulo ous aaa calyx pubescent ; eae about 4-5 lin. long ;. 
berries woody, as arge as an’ apple, almost globose, prenee or. 
slightly an Se 10-15-celled, each cell containing 6- 
10 oblong woolly seeds imbedded in a tenacious slimy edible pulp. 
Has.—Much cultivated, especially i in the Prome district, and said to occur 
~ also wild in the forests.—F. May; Fr. -Nov.—l. 
Remarxs.—Wood light- paves usually uniformly yellowish-white, or 
variegated with veins, heavy, very clos i eratned, compact, hard and very strong, 
asl @ beautiful polish. The fruits are much liked by the Burmese and 
SIMARUBE. 
Flowers regular, dioecious, or polygamous, prey hermaphrodite 
Calyx gamosepalous, or 3-5-se alled. Petals 3 5, hypoxynons 0 pa 
mens as many or twice as many ; anthers versatile, the cells ae: 
ing by longitudinal slits. Disk under or round the ovary, various, 
rarely wanting. Ovary of 3-5, rarely more or fewer, carpels either 
quite distinct or more or less united into a lobed or rarely entire 
ovary, with a solitary or rarely 2 ovules in each cell ; styles as many 
as carpels, free or united at the base or with their stigmas only. 
Fruiting carpels ee distinct, dry or drupaceous and usually inde- 
~ hiscent, or united in an. entire or lobed drupe or capsule. Seeds 
pendulous, the testa pan Sat Albumen abundant, little. or 
no : : y : 
Ty panicles or racem 
_ All species aor i Sas y bitter. The seeds of the central 
American cedron tree (Simaba. cedron) pte Benen antido 
against snake-bite. The following are all the B urmese species af 
this order known to me. 
+ base connate. 
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