Picrasma, | SIMARUBER. 201 
flowers small, on 2 lin. long tawny puberulous pedicels, racemulose, 
forming fugaceously puberulous rather large terminal panicles ; 
petals nearly 2 lin. long; samaras 14-2 in. long, oblong, blunt at 
th ends, veined, brown, 1-seeded in centre. 
Has.—Rather rare in weg tropical forests of the Khaboung choung, eastern 
slopes of Pegu Yomah.— Sid. 
Remarxs.— Wood — white, said to be icine sibiie: a reddish gum. 
PICRASMA, Bl. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx minute, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, 
ey enlarging in the females, valvate. Stamens in males as 
any as petals, inserted round the thick disk, in the females often 
rove eg the filaments without basal scale. Ovary of 3-5 distinct 
lobes, raised on the fleshy disk, with a single ovule in each lobe. 
upes 1-3, small, containing a crustaceous or coriaceous 1-seeded 
nut. Albumen fleshy. —Evergreen trees, bite se leaves. 
Flowers small, 2 ae eymose, in axillary pani 
l. P. Jav. BL; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 520. ae evergreen tree (40 
—50+ 1025-442. 5), all parts glabrous; leaves unpaired-pmnate, 
8-9 in. et the rachis furnished at base with small rotundate 
© alate, 4-5 in. pase , entire, membranous, beneath silky shining, 
calyx 4-cleft, the the ribinidaté almost acute; petals 4, oblong, 
rather acute, glabrous ; drupes usually by oy or fewer, 'ateatae 
raised on the flat and "thick torus, white, smooth. 
Haz.—Frequent in the tropical forests from Martaban tee to a 
and the the Andamans ; rare in those of the Pegu Yomah.—Fl. March ; Fr. Begin. £ 
—SS.—=Metam., &e., SiS. (?) 
Baan ARKS. re ge altos amianth-like fibrous, rather light, close- 
BRUCEA, Mill. 
__ Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4-cleft, stp Seer 4, minute, 
_Imbricate. Stamens 4, rudimentary in the males; the filamen 
red. 
nut. Testa of seed membranous. Albumen copious.— 
_ Shrubs or trees, with — leaves. Flowers minute, in little cymes 
forming axillary racemes 
2 ‘2. 8 at: 
- Leailets quite entre; stent ee ao ist 5 i ellag ae 
