200 SIMARUBE. [ Samadera. 
&) G) sans “ ew as petals, Leaves pinnate. 
is te 
Disk thick ; a rete panicled ein . Pierasma, 
Disk 4- lobed ; pemere gelees us ; flowers racemes . - Brucea. 
oy ; flowers in eae ‘ : ; . Hurycoma, 
* * Ovary entire oc shen! 2-5 
Filament = ‘basal 2-cleft mats 3; ‘leaves 1-3-foliolate or 
z ‘ . . Harrisonia. 
Filename secihisiog scale ; leaves 2-foliolate ¥ : . . . Balanites. 
SAMADERA, Gaertn. 
Flowers ee ee Calyx 3-5-parted, glandular outside 
at the base, imbrie Petals 3-5, contorted in bud. Disk la 
inverted-conical. ‘Stanete 6-10, included, furnished at base with a 
short scale. Ovary consisting of 4-5 free lobes, each with a solitary 
suspended ovule; styles united. Drupes 1-5, large, dry, keel-winged. 
Testa of seeds membranous.---Evergreen trees with simple entire 
leaves. Flowers rather large, in poor umbe 
- S, Indica, Gaertn.—H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 519; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
49.—Kathai.— A small evergreen tree, all parts glabrous ; leaves 
oblong to elliptically oblong, 8-10 in. long, acute at base 
rather short petiole, bluntish acuminate, quite entire, coriaceous, — 
glossy and prominently laxly net-veined on both sides; flowers rather 
large, yellowish, forming poor terminal glabrous one pe 
umbels ; calyx very short, Huntish 4-toothed ; petals 4, about an 
in. long, oblong, blunt, “puberulous ; stamens 8; ovary 4-lobed ; 
drupes usually solitary, about 2 in. long, glossy, obliquely obovoid, 
eel-winged, the wing thick and obliquely excurrent at the sum- 
mit. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim, tropical forests.—s. 
Remarxs.—Yields the niepa bark of commerce. 
AILANTHOS, Desf. 
ers polygamous. Calyx ee diaper: Petals 5, in- 
duplicately valvate. Disk 10-lobed. ens 10, in the females 
none, in the hermaphrodites 2-3, the peer without basal scale. 
Ovary 2-5 parted (in the males rudimentary), with a snes ovule 
in each cell; styles connate; stigmas feathery. Samaras 1-5, 
winged all round, chartaceous, l1-seeded. Albumen ane 
trees, with as leaves. Flowers small, in terminal panicles. 
= H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 518; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., 
in a HS. the leaf-buds mtose ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, — 
- ‘long sips ee oblique at base, — 
, chartaceous ,glabrous; | 
