490 ' XXXIII. RUTACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Evodia. 



*** Leaves pinnate. 



8. E. fraxinlfolia, Hook.f. ; leaves quite glabrous throughout, leaflets 

 3-5-pairs, cymes broad brachiate pubescent, branches stout, flowers 

 4-5-n)erous, fruit glabrous. Tetradium tricliotomum, Lour. Fl. Coch. 91 ; 

 BG. Prodr. ii. 88. Ehusfraxinifolium, Dm Prod/r. -248. Philagonia fraxini- 

 folia, Hook Ic. PL t. 710 ; Wall. Cat. 8521 ? P. sambucina, Blume Bijd. 250. 

 P. procera, DC. Prodr. ii. 90. 



Subtropical Himalaya from Nipal to Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 

 3-5000 ft. — DiBTEiB. Java ? Cochinchina. 



A Rniall much branched densely leafy tree, smelling strongly of Caraway whe-u 

 braised. Branchlets thick, terete. Leaves 8-12 in., spreading, bright green ; petiole 

 cylindrio; leaflets 4-9 in., shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate,, 

 straight or falcate, quite entire or crenulate, base rounded often oblique, nerves spread- 

 ing, slender, terminal leaflet often long-petioled. Cymes on short stout compressed pe- 

 duncles, axillary and terminal, clothed with fine close-set pubescence ; bracts minute. 

 Fkmtrs shortly pedicelled, white, i nearly J in. diam. Sepals small, obtuse. Petals 

 imbricate, pubescent within. Stamens exceeding the petals, filaments somewhat hairy; 

 anthers broad. Owars/ glabrous ; style short, stigma capitate, i^rwt* 4 in. diam., red ; 

 carpels not separating to the base, very coriaceous. Seed broadly elliptic, slightU 

 compressed ; testa dark brown, shining. — I can hardly doubt this being the Philagonia 

 sambitdna of Bhime (P. procera, DC, published in the same year) ; but having seen no 

 Java specimen I retain the name of fraxinifolia. It is the plant alluded to under 

 Mvodia in the " Genera Planfarum" as E. Moxburghiana. 



9. E. melieefolia, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 58; petioles pilose, leaflets 

 3-5 pairs glabrous, cymes broad brachiate pilose-pubesceilt, branches 

 very slender, flowers 4-5-merous. E. glauca, Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. iii. 23. 

 Boymia glabrifolia, Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 330. Megabotrya 

 meliaBfoEa, Mance in Wdlp. Ann. ii. 259. 



Assam, Masters {in Herh. Griffith). , '_ 



A much more slender plant tlian E. frandnifolia, w;ith spreading soft hairs on the 

 rachis of the leaf and on the more slender partial petioles, very slender spreading 

 branches of the cyme, which is 8 inches broad, fewer spar.ser flowers, the S \ in. diam., 

 shorter more slender filaments, and more oblong anthers. The leaflets are 3-4 in., 

 more oblique at the base, and usually more acuminate. 



10. E, rutsBcarpa, Hook.f. & Thorns. Herh. Ind. Or. ; clothed through- 

 out with soft velvety pubescence, cymes brachiate, branches very stout, 

 fruit pustular. Boymia rutjecarpa, Juss. according to Sieb. do Zucc. Fl. 

 Japon. i. 50, t. 21. 



Inner valleys, of the Temperate region of the Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., 

 J. D. H.—DiwTYiiB, Japan. 



A small densely-foliaged green tree, inodorous. Leavei l-\\ ft.; petiole terete, 

 stout ; leaflets about 5 pair, subsesaile, oblong-acute, usually rounded and oblique at the 

 base, margin quite entire, under surface woolly, nerves faint. Cymes 3-4 in. diam., 

 terminal ; peduncles very short stout and as well as tlie pedicels and calyx tomentose. 

 Flower about \ in. diam. . Petals nearly glabrous externally, pubescent within. Stamens 

 not much exceeding the petals, filaments hairy ; anthers very large, ovate, 2-lobed at 

 the base. Fruit 4 in diam. ; carpels 4, opening at the apex. 



6. TETRACTOiaXA, Hook. f. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, 1-foliolate, coriaceous, quite 

 entire, punctate. Flowers small, in axillary branched cymes. Calyx 

 small, 4-partite. Petals 4, triangular-ovate, acute,, persistent, valvate. 



