488 xxxiii. hutacEjE. (J. D. Hooker.) \Eiiodia, 



X. Marambong, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 533. Schmidelia integerrima, 

 WaU. Cat. 8065. 



, Khasia Mts., alt. 4000 ft., H.f. & T. Throughout the Mountains of the Westeem 

 Peninsula ; in the Eastern Peninsula, from Tenasserim to Malaya and Penang, &o., 

 Cetlon. — DiSTHiB. Sumatra, Java. 



A small tree with softwood; hranches opposite. Leaves usually large, spreading; 

 petiole 2-5 in. terete ; leaflets 2-5 in., very shortly petioled, obovate, oblong or oblanceo- 

 Jate, tip rounded or acuminate or apiculate, nerves almost horizontal very slender not at 

 all prominent, costa perfectly glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes very variable, length 

 and breadth of peduncle, more or less finely pubescent ; -branches opposite and alter- 

 nate, bracts minute. Flowers usually densely crowded, Ti;— s in. diam., yellow-green, 

 very shortly pedicelled. Calyx- minute. Petals slightly imbricate. Capsules usually 

 2, about the size of a pepper-corn, coriaceous, rugose. Seed splendent, blue-black. 



There is some doubt as to the name which this species should bear, consequent upon 

 the obscurity of Evodia triphylta, DC, founded on the Philippine Islands Fugara 

 triphyUa of Lamk. (Evodia Lamarekiand, Benth. Flor. Hongk. 59). Lamarck (Diet, 

 ii. 447) identifies his Philippine Isld. plant with Eumph's Ampaeus angustifolms 

 (Herb. Amb. ii. 88, t. 62), with which also Bentham's Hongkong specimens agree. 

 Eoxburgh, on the other hand, identifies a Penang plant, cultivated in the Calcutta 

 (xardens, with Eumph's Ampaeus angustifolms, and describes its capsules as the size 

 of a field-bean. 1'his character of capsule does not agree with any Indian species 

 known to me. Roxburgh's characters agree in all but this, with a common Malay 

 plant. As Wight refers an identical Kilghiri plant to Roxburgh's, I have preferijed to 

 retain for it the name Boxburghiana, given to it by Chamisso, to distinguish it from the 

 true triphylta of Lamarck, which has veiy small iew-fiowered cymes and smaller cap- 

 sules. Bentham (I.e.) observes that Lamarck's plant is a native of India, and quotes 

 Wight's Icones ; but this is a mistake, for Wight's figure represents a poor specimen of 

 this, which is a common Nilghiri plant. Wight gives Jussieu as the authority for 

 X triphyllum, both in his " Icones" and "Illustrations;" but this is an error. Wal- 

 lich's Schmidelia integerrima is clearly a very large-leaved form from Penang ; it has 

 neither flower nor fruit; the terminal leaflet is 12 by 5 in. 



2. E. triphyUa, DC. Prodr. i. 724; leaves quite glabrous, nerves 

 slender, cymes small hardly bracteate, branches and pedicels very slender 

 finely pubescent, filaments glabrous, ovary hairy. E. Lamarckiana, Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 59. E. gracilis, Kurz in Journ. As. iSoc. Beng. 1871, ii. 48. 

 Fagara triphyUa, Lamk. Diet. ii. 447. Xanthoxylum Lamarckianum, C/iam. 

 in Linnoea v. 58. X. pteleaefolium, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 330. 

 Lepta triphyUa, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 82. 



Tenasserim, at Moolmein, alt. 6000 ft., Pamsh ; north of Moulmein, Heifer; Birma, 

 Brandis. — Distkib. Philippine Islds., Japan, China, Borneo. 



This, though a very distinct-looking plant from E. Boxburghiana, is not easily cha- 

 racterized, except by comparison. It is smaller, more slender, with shortly-peduncled 

 cymes, 1-3 in. long, hairy, more slender branches and pedicels, the flowers are smaller 

 and paler, and the capsules much smaller, about J in. diam. The Tenasserim speci- 

 mens_ have elliptic-lanceolate leaves, but in other countries they vary from obovate to 

 elliptic-lanceolate. As in E. Boxburghiana the costa above is perfectly glabrous. 



3. B. robusta, Eooh.f. ; leaflets elliptic obtuse or obtusely-acuminate 

 shming, nerves very prominent beneath, costa glabrous above puberulous 

 beneath, cymes broad brachiate their branches very robust. 



Penang, Phillips ; Singapore, Maingay (278 Kew Distrib.}. 



A much more robust plant than E. triphyUa. Branchlets compressed, as thick as a 

 swan s quill, hoary. Petiole 4 in., terete, as thick as a ciow-quiU ; leaflets 6-8 in., 

 terminal subobovate, lateral elliptic, coriaceous, midrib and arching nerves very strong 

 indeed. Cymes 5 in. diam. and upwards. Flowers and ihiit as in Boxbv/rghiana, ui 

 which this may be a variety ; but it differs remarkably from the Sincapore and Malacca 



