44 XLYI. ANACAEDiACBji. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bimiphia. 



BOUBTPTO GENTTS. 



22. RVnXFKXA, Linn. 



A very large tree. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, broadly ovate-cordate, 

 toothed, rougli, aromatic. Haeemes axillary. Flowers bitter. Calyx tubular, 

 3-fld. Petals 3, oblong. Stamens 3, exserted. Ovary subtrigonous ; style 

 fiimple. Drupe coriaceous, turbinate, 3-grooved ; stone 3-ceUed, 3-seeded. 



1. B. tilleefoUa, Xam^. Diet. vi. 352; HI. t. 25; DC. Prodr. ii. 90. 

 E. amboinensis, lann. Sp. PI. 49. — Rheede Hart. Mal. iv. 1. 11. 



Mat.abab ; stony sandy mountain -woods in Parakaroo and elsewhere, Bheede. 



Avery large tree ; hark red ■vrithin, aromatic. Leaves 4-5 by 24-3 J in., aromatic, 

 5-nerved at the base ; petiole 1-1 J in. Sacemes axillary and terminal, shorter than 

 the leaves, ■woolly. Flowers ^ in. diam., inodorous. Drupe 1 in. long, obovoid ob- 

 tusely 3-lobed, rough and setose, flesh bitter ; stone triquetrous, 3-celled. 



Of this remarkable plant nothing is knoTra except from the plate and description 

 of Rheede. I follow the majority of authors in placing it at the end of Terebinthacea, 

 ■with ■which, however, I suspect it has nothing to do. Jussieu (Gen. PI. 370) suggests 

 that it may be more allied to Sapindaceas. To me it looks more like a Euphorbiaceous 

 or Verbenaceous plant. 



Wallich's Tebebikthacea. ? No. 8501, ex Herb. Wight, is a mixture of Ganiga 

 pinnata fi:uits with the leaves and immature finiit of another plant that I do not 

 recognise and which is in a most imperfect state. 



OedbrSLVII.— CORIARIEH:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Usually glabrous shrubs, -with 4-angled saa-mentose branches, the lower op- 

 posite; buds scaly. Leaves opposite, rai-ely 3-nateiy ■wborled, quite entire, 

 sessile, exstipulate. Racemes axillary. Flowers small, gi-een, hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous. Sepals 5, spreading, imbricate, persistent. Petah smaller than the 

 sepals, fleshy, keeled ■withiii, thickened after flowering and embracing the fruit. 

 Stamens 10, hypogynous, free or the alternate adnate to the petals, filaments 

 short; anthers large, oblong, rou^b. Dish 0. Carpeh 6-10, free, 1-celled, 

 whorled on a fleshy receptacle ; styles slender, subulate, fleshy, papillose aU over ; 

 ovules 1 m each cell, pendulous fi-om the top. Fruit of 5 or 10 oblong com- 

 pressed diy little nuts, closely embraced by the fleshy petals, l-ceUed, 1-seeded. 

 Seed compressed, testa membranous, albumen a thin layer ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex, radicle superior.— Disieeb. 3-6 species natives of S. Europe, N. AJfrica, 

 Japan, the Himalaya, New Zealand, and the Andes. 



An order of doubtful affinity, perhaps nearest Fhytolacces, which should in this 

 work nave been placed in Thaiamiflora. 



COXtZARXA, Linn. 



Character of the order. 



}■ C. nepalensis, >F«;/. PI. As. Rar. iii. t. 289; Cat. 6817; leaves 

 ovate or elliptic 3-7 nel-ved, stamens 10, carpels 5. Srandis For. Flor. 128. 



Temperate and Stibteopicai Himaiata, from Marri alt. 3-6000 to Bhotan • 

 ascending to 11,000 ft. in Sikkim.— Disteib. Yunan. -onoian , 



A shrub with arched branches, glabrous or puberiilous on the leaves beneath and 

 racemes. Leaves 1-2 by f-lJ m., usually broadly rounded-cordate and abruptly acu- 



