202 SIMARUBEZ. [| Hurycoma, 
1. B. Sumatrana, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 521.—A large evergreen 
shrub, all younger parts so oftly pubescent ; leaves 1-1} ft. long or 
longer, unpaired-pinnate; leaflets in 2-3 pairs with an odd one, 
obtuse and often somewhat oblique at base, ovate-lanceolate, on a 
short but slender petiolule, 2-24 in. long, acuminate, a crenate- 
toothed, densely pubescent or villous, especially beneath ; flowers 
minute, purple, in little cymes or clusters and Seat an jntersapiel 
tomentose racemes in the axils of the leaves as long or shorter than 
them ; drupes the size of a small pea, glabrous. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
2. B. mollis, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 521.—A small simple- 
stemmed cirab, vii younger parts melee or pubescent ; leaves 
unpaired-pinnate, the petiole and rachis terete, puberulous and 
glabrescent ; leaflets in 4-6 pairs with an odd one; ovate-oblong or 
ovate-lanceolate, on a 2-3 lin. long pubescent petiolule, acuminate, 
quite entire, membranous, above sparingly, beneath more densely 
pubescent, or (except the pubescent nerves) almost glabrous, 2-3 
in. long; flowers minute, green, on slender about a line long pubes- 
cent pedicels, forming puberulous or pubescent simple slender 
racemes in the axils of the leaves and much shorter than them; 
petals lanceolate, ciliate towards the base; disk green, larger than 
the sparingly tawny hispid glabrescent ovary 5 wtvles broadly linear, 
deflexed ; Ng s solitary or by 2, rarely 3, ovate, the size of a large 
pea or lar 
Has 
at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March.—s.—8S.= 
EURYCOMA, Jack. 
—In the drier and damp hill-forests of merle hae bak ad ‘Tenaseerimg 
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Seer ee eI copie pee ate ase 
ee Ee ety pet take he aes 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-toothed, bao d 
. Petals 5, induplicate-valvate. Disk none. Stamens 5, almos 
tral in the males, hypogynous i in the females; the amavis 
base appendaged at each side. Ovary deeply 5-parted, the 1-0 
lobes free and sessile; styles united. Drupes 3-5, stalked, beaked, 
crustaceous, dry, when fully ripe tardily dehiscing “along the inner ay ) 
angle, Albumen none.—Trees or shrubs, with mend ee 
leaves, Flowers 1 mm ae thd terminsl ane 
