Ehis.] XLVi. ANACAEDiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 9 



1. RKTTS, Liim. 



Trees or shrubs, -with, often an acrid juice. Leaves alternate, simple or 1-3- 

 foliolate or pianate ; leaflets quite entire or serrate. Flowers small, in terminal 

 and axillary panicles, polygamous. Calyx small, 4-6-parted, persistent ; seg- 

 ments nearly ejjual, imbricate. Petals 4^6, equalj spreading, imbricate. Stamens 

 4, 6, 6, or 10, inserted at the base of the disk, free ; filaments subulate ; anthers, 

 short, imperfect in the g flower. Ovari/ sessile, ovoid or globose,. 1-celled ; 

 styles 3, free or curvate, short or long ; stigmas simple or capitate ; ovule pendu- 

 lous from a baaal funicle. Drupe small, dry, compressed; stone coriaceous, 

 crustaceous or bony. Seed pendulous from the funicle, testa membranous, coty- 

 ledons flattish, radicle hooked short superior. — A. large genus of about 120 

 species, natives chiefly of warm temperate regions. 



Sect. 1. Cotinus. Leaves simple. Panicle with many flowerless finally 

 elongate capillary hairy pedicels. J7o«;er« bisexual. Di-vpe obovate, com- 

 pressed, stone triangular. 



1. Xl. Cotinus, Linn.; Soiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 4; leaves long-petioled 

 elliptic or obovate glabrous or tomentose. Brandis For. Flor. 118. E. velutina, 

 Wall. Cat. 998 (excl. C. in Herb. Linn. Soc.) ; B. Isevis, Wall. mas. in G. Don, 

 Gen. Si/st. ii. 65. 



Westben Subteopicai. HzMAiATA ; alt. 3-5000 ft., from Marri to Kumaou. — ■ 

 DistaiB. from Syria ■vreatwards to France. 



A shnit or small tree. Leaves 2-4 in., obtuse ; nerves spreading, parallel ; petiole very 

 slender, 1-2 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, very large, slender, and many-flowered. 

 Flowers ^ in. diam. ; pedicels very slender. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals 

 twice as long, elliptic. Stamens shorter than the petals ; anthers large. Disk broads 

 4-angled. Drupe J in., compressed, covered with white hairs. — The numerous hairy 

 flowerless pedicels of the very large copious panicles give this hush a remarkabla 

 appearance during and after flowering. Wall. Cat. 998 C. (in Herb. Linn. Soc. only) 

 is Bhus succedanea. 



Sect. 2. Sumac. Leaves 3-foliolate or odd-pimiate. Flowers polygamous 

 dioecious or bisexual. Drupe ovoid or orbicular. 



* Leaves trifoliolate. 



2. It. parviflora, Moxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 100; softly tomentose, leaflets 

 elliptic oblong-obovate or orbicular irregularly crenate above the middle. DC. 

 Prodr. ii.70; Wall. Cat. 991 ; Ddlz. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Flm: Swppl. 19 ; Brandis 

 For. Flor. 119. 



■Western Himau.ta ; alt. 2- 6000 ft., from Kimiaon to Nipal. Cehteai, India 

 on the Pashmarchi hills, Brandis. 



An unarmed shrub ; branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles and panicle densely 

 clothed with soft rusty tomentum. Leaves palmate, 3-foliolate ; petiole 1-1 J in., 

 stout ; leaflets 1 J-3 in., sessile or the terminal contracted into a petiole, coriaceous, 

 tomentose on bofli surfaces especially beneath ; nerves spreading, parallel. Panicles 

 axiUary and terminal, sUky, longer than the leaves. Flowers ^ in. diam. ; pedicels 

 very short; bracts linear. Sepals ovate, the outer hairy. Petals twice as long, ob- 

 long. Disk 6-lobed. Drupe ^ in. diam., ovoid, compressed, red-brown, shining. — 

 The Ceylon specimens alludsd to in Brandis are no doubt cultivated ones. 



3. R. mysorensls, Seyne ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 172 ; pubescent, leaf- 

 lets small obovate or cuneate sinuate-toothed or -lobed. Brandis For. Flor. 

 119; Beddome Fl. Sylv. Anal. Oen. 78. t. xi. f. 3; Wal}. Cat. 997. 



NoBTH 'Westben India ; Scind, Stocks ; Eohilkund, near Delhi. "Western Panjab, 

 Sulima range, alt. 2600-5000 ft. Western Peninsula ; Maisor and the Dekkan. 

 A small shrub ; branches woody, flexuous, often spinous ; branchlets, petioles, 



