498 XXXIII. RUTACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aermychia. 



10. iVCROXrVCBZA, Forst. 



Trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 1- rarely 3-folioIate, leaflets qmte 

 entire. Flowers small or rather large, yellow, in peduncled axillary and 

 terminal corymbs, polygamous. Cali/x 4-lobed, sometimes enlarged after 

 flowering, imbricate. Petals 4, spreading, revolute, valvate. Stamens 8, 

 inserted under a thick 8-angled tomentose disk, filaments subulate, the 

 alternate longer. Chary inserted in the hollowed tip of the disk, tomentose, 

 4- celled ; style terminal, stigma 4-grooved ; ovules 2, superposed in each 

 cell Fruit a 4rceUed drupe, or 4-valved loculicidal capsule. Seeds often 

 exserted and pendulous from a slender funic! e, testa black, albumen copious; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons oblong flat.— Distmb. About 15 species, natives 

 of tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. 



1. A. laurifolia, BlumeBijd. 245 ; glabrous, leaves subopposite 1-folio- 

 late, leaflet elliptic subobovate or oblong, cymes long-peduncled very broad 

 corymbose, buds linear, petals linear villous within. A. pedunculata, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 532 ; Thwaites Enum. 409 and 69 (Cyminosma) ; Bedd-. 

 Flw. Sylv. Anal. Gen. xliL t. 6, f. 4. Cyminosma pedunculata, DC. Prodr. 

 i. 722; Wall. Gat. 1205; W. & A. Prodr. i. 147; Wight lU. i. 165, t. 65; 

 Bah. & Gihs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl. 17. C. Ankenda, Gaeiin. Fruct. i. 280, t. 58, 

 f. 6 (bad) ; BC. I.e. Clausena simplicifolia, Balz. in Eew Journ. Bot. iii. 180. 

 Jambolifera pedunculata, VaM Symb. iii. 52, t. 61. Gela lanceolata, Low. 

 Fl. Cock i. 232. ■ Selas lanceolatum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 216. Ximenia ? lan- 

 ceolata, i)C. Prodr. i. 633. Indeterm. Wall. Gat. 9028— PheedeHort. Mai. y. 

 p. 29, t. 15. 



SiKKiM HiMAT.ATA, in hot vallejs, alt. 3-4000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4000 ft. : 

 Assam; Chittagonq; Eastern Pemnsula, from Eangoon to Penang and Malacca; 

 "Westeen Peninsula, on the Ghats fi-om Concan to Travanoor, ascending to 5000 ft. ; 

 Ceylon. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Cochin China. 



A small glabrous tree or shrub, with somewhat silky or puberulous young shoots and 

 inflorescence. Leaves very variable; leaflets 2-6 in., obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 

 membranous, quite entire, much veined and reticulate on both surfaces. Cymes axillary, 

 slender, oppositely branched, spreading, long-peduncled, corymbose ; bracts and brao- 

 teoles small. Flowers ^-J in. diam., fragrant, yellowish-white ; buds linear-oblong, 

 obtuse ; pedicels slender. Sepals very small, rounded. Petals linear-oblong from a 

 broad base, obtnse, revolute, more or less villous on the inner surface. Filaments 

 equalling the petals, slender, bearded below. Ovary villous ; style short, stigma capi- 

 tate. Drupe very variable in size, from a pea to a small cherry, 3-5-celled, glabrate, 

 usually with a narrowed angular or grooved tip, sometimes narrowed at the base, some- 

 times deeply lobed from the tip downwards. 



Var. 1 ; leaflets oblong, flowers about \ in. diam. 



Vak 2 ; leaflets 5-7 in. oblong-lanceolate, petals very sparingly villous within, drupe 

 globose -^ iii. diam. glabrous. — Sikkim, /. B. H. 



Var. 3 ; leaflets 4^5 in. cymes very slender, flowers smaller (1^ in.), frnit small con- 

 tracted at the base. — Western Peninsula. 



Var. 4; leaflets very small 1^-2 by \—^ in. very membranous narrowly elliptic- 

 lanceolate, cymes few-flowered. — Pulney Mts., Wight. 



Vak. 5 ; cymes few-flowered, fruit small turbinate lobed at the top. — Mergui, 

 Griffith. 



Var. 6 ; pedancles stout thick, branches 3-flowered, flowers large almost 1 in. diam., 

 petals much bearded within, fruit nearly | in. diam. subglobose puberulous. — 

 Malacca? Maingay. 



2. A. Porterl, Hook. f. ; leaves opposite 1-foliolate, cymes panicled 

 narrow, buds globose, petals ovate minutely pilose within, — Wall.Gat. 7756. 



