28 XLvi. ANACAEDiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Twpi/ria. 



patent, pubescent, at length glabrate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, |-| in. diam. Dnvpe 

 ^ in. long, pedicelled. 



10. TAFXRXA, Juss. 



■ Erect or scandent shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets 

 numerous, subopposite, serrate. Panicles axillary and termLnal._ Flowers small, 

 green, polygamous. Calyx 6-partite ; segments imbricate, persistent. Petals 6, 

 email, oblong, imbricate. Disk broad, 6-lobed. Stamens 10, inserted at the 

 base of the disk ; anthers globose. Ovart/ in the (J immersed in the disk, 4-5- 

 lobed, with 4-6 styles ; in the ? ovoid, more free, l-celled ; style short, conic, 

 atigma simple ; ovule pendulous from the top of the cell. Drupe obliquely ob- 

 long, fleshy ; stone rugose, crustaceous. Seed oblong, testa ruembranous ; coty- 

 ledons large, plano-convex ; radicle superior. — ^Dibieib. Species 8 or 10, chiefly 

 American. 



1. T. hirsuta, Sookf. in Benth 8( Sook.f. Oen. Pla-nt. i. 423; Robergia 

 hirsuta, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 456 ; Pegia nitida, Caleb, in Trans. JAnn. Soc. xv. 

 864 ; Phlebochiton, Wall, in Trans. Med. 8r Phys. Soc. Calc. vii. 230 ; P. ex- 

 i^nsum, Cat. 8499. 



Centeal and Eastben tropical Himalaya, from Nipal and Sikkim, ascending to 

 4000 ft. ; to Bhotan, Griffith. Assam, Silhet, and Chittagong. 



A scandent shrub, more or less clothed ■with soft villous tomentum. Leaves 8-12 

 in. ; petiole villous, slender ; leaflets petiolulate, 5-7 pairs, 1-4 in., oblong, acuminate, 

 membranous, rarely quite entire, base cordate. JPameles villous; bracts ovate. 

 Flowers i in. diam., pale, sweet-scented. Drupe the size of a currant, black ; flesh 

 next the stone cellular and fall of viscid brown balsam. 



11. FENTASPADON, Hook. f. 



Trees. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite subsessile, quite entire. Pa- 

 nicles axillary, peduncled, branched, branchlets very slender. Flowers pedicelled, 

 minute, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes 6, imbricate. Petals 5, oblong-obovate, 

 strongly imbricate. Stamens 5, minute, inserted at the base of the disk, alter- 

 nate vnth 5 short subulate staminodes which are free or adnate to the side of the 

 disk, filaments short, broadly subulate ; anthers didymous. Disk cupular, ob- 

 scurely 10-lobed. Ovary seated on the disk, very minute, l-ceUed, contracted into 

 a stout short style, stigma globose or obliquely oblong, large ; ovule 1, pendulous 

 from the upper part of the cavity. 



1. P. ? velutinus, Sook.f.; petioles leaflets beneath and panicles 

 ■clothed with velvety tomentum. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



JBranchleta stout, woody, oylindric, covered with close-set scars of fallen leaves, tips 

 velvety. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches ; petiole 6-lOin. stout, oylindric, 

 velvety, bearing no leaflets on the lower third or fourth ; leaflets 2-3| in. subsessile 

 except the petiolulate terminal one, oblong, acute or acuminate, base rather oblique 

 and rounded, thinly coriaceous, opaque above with pubescent midrib, thickly tomen- 

 tose beneath; nerves 12-14 pairs, slender, arched. Famcles usually shorter than the 

 leaves, triangular, densely velvety, except the flowers, peduncle 2-4 in. ; branchlets 

 very numerous, erecto-patent, strict, very slender indeed, much divided and spread- 

 ing. Flowers ^s in- diam. on short glabrous pedicels ; bracts minute. Calyx lobes 

 ovate. Petals spreading, minutely puberulous. Stamens and Ovary very minute, as 

 compared to the petals. Lrwpe 1 in. long, rather scurfy outside, compressed, ovoid, 

 •obliquely beaked, l-celled ; pericarp cellular and full of black varnish, endocarp thin. 



