218 XXX. SIMARUBE^. [Ailanthn^. 



2. *A. glandulosa (glandulous), Besf. Tree of Heaven. A tall fast-growing 

 deciduous tree, the foliage when bruised emitting a disagreeable odour. Leaves 

 1 to 2ft. long. Leaflets 9 to 25, pubescent or subglabrous, divided very unequally 

 on the rhachis, pale on the under side, often coarsely toothed near the base. 

 Flowers greenish, small, in much-branched panicles. Filaments filiform, 

 exserted. Several times exceeding the anthers, hispid at the base, the petals 

 woolly-tomentose inside. Fruit of about 8 membranous linear-oblong samaras, 

 about IJin. long, and about 4 lines broad, red. Seeds near the centre of the 

 samara, about 3 lines long and a little over 1 line broad. 



Hab.: Japan and China. Met with in a few localities in the southern inland parts of the 

 colony as a stray from garden culture. 



The leaves of this tree are said to be the favourite food of the silk moth " Bombyx oynthia." 



The wood is yellowish-white, satiny, and well suited for cabinet-work. 



2. BRUCEA, Mill. 



(After J. Bruce, the traveller.) 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx small, 4-cleft. Petals 4, minute, linear, imbricate 

 in the bud, disk 4-lobed. Stamens 4. Ovary 4-lobed or of 4 distinct carpels, 

 the styles free or connate at the base, the stigmas entire, spreading ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell. Drupes 4, ovoid, scarcely fleshy, the putamen rugose. Seed 

 with a membranous testa ; albumen copious ; embryo straight, radicle superior.^ 

 Trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets oblique. Flowers very small, in small 

 cymes, in simple slender axillary spikes. 



The genus comprises a very few species, spread over tropical Asia and Africa, extending into 

 northern India. The Australian species is one of the commonest Asiatic ones. — Benth. 



1. B. sumatrana (of Sumatra), Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 449 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 

 166 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 873. A shrub or tree, the young branches and petioles 

 softly tomentose. Leaves 1 to l^ft. long or even more ; leaflets 5 to 11, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, about 8in. long, coarsely toothed or qaite entire, usually 

 oblique at the base, softly pubescent or tomentose-villous, especially underneath. 

 Flowers very small, purple, petals obovate, f line long, anthers didymous, in little 

 cymes or clusters along the peduncle, forming interrupted spikes or racemes of 6 

 to lOin. in the males, much shorter in the females. Drupes about 3 lines long. 



Hab.: Arnhem's Bay, R. Brown ; Victoria Eiver, F. v. Mueller. The latter specimen has the 

 leaflets very densely and softly velvety on both sides ; in E. Brown's specimens they are not 

 more so than in the majority of Indian specimens. — Herb. R. Br. and F. v. M. Mount Elliot 

 and Rockingham Bay, F. v. M. 



The whole plant is bitter, and the seeds (called " Macassar Kernels") are much used in Java 

 as a cure for dysentery. — Triinen, Flora of Ceylon. 



3. SAMADERA, Gtertn. 



(Derivation obscure.) 



Calyx small, 3— 5-partite, imbricate. Petals 3 — 5, much longer than the 

 calyx, coriaceous, imbricate. Disk large, conical. Stamens 8-10, included in 

 the corolla, with a small scale at the base. Carpels 4-5, distinct, free ; styles 

 free at the base, more or less united above, stigmas acute ; ovules solitary, 

 pendulous. Fruit of 1-5 large, dry, compressed, 1-seeded drupes, each with a 

 narrow unilateral wing. Large or small trees. Leaves simple. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, in peduncled axillary or terminal umbels.— Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 

 518. 



Peduncles very short. The broad portion of filament hairy throughout ... 1. N. Bidinllii. 

 Peduncles 2 or Sin. long. The broad portion of filament hairy only at the top i. S. Baileyuna. 



