518 XXXIV. siMAKUBE^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Ailantus. 



1. AXX.ANTVS, Desf. 



Lofty trees. Leaves very large, alternate * unequally pinnate. Flowers 

 small, pplygainous, bracteolate, in terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx 

 5-fid ; lobes equal, imbricate. Petals 5, valvate. Bisk 10-lnbed. Stamens 

 10 (in the hermaphrodite flowers 2-3) ; filaments short or filiform, without 

 scales. Ovary 2-6-partitej styles connate; ovules 1 in each cell, semi- 

 anatropous. Fruit of 1-5 1-seeded samaras ; wing very large, membranous. 

 Seed pendulous, sparingly albuminous. — Disteib. India, China, Australia ; 

 species 3-4. 



A. GLAiTOULOSA, Desf. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 89 ; leaves pubescent or sub- 

 glabrous, leaflets very coarsely toothed at the base, filaments elongate. 

 JBrandis For. Flor. 58. 



Northern India, probably introduced. — Distrib. China, 



A lofty tree. Leaves often exceeding 1 ft. ; leaflets very numerous, divided very un- 

 equally by the midrib, paler beneath. Flowers small, in much-branched panicles. 

 Filaments filiform, exserted, several times exceeding the anther. Fruit of about 3 

 membranous linear-oblong samaras, about 1 J by Jin. Seed near the centre of the 

 samara, about i by -rjF in. 



1. A. excelsa, Hoxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 23 ; Fl. Ind. ii. p. 450 ; leaves 

 glandular-hairy, leaflets very coarsely toothed, filaments short, samara 

 large red twisted. DC. Prodr. ii. 89 ; W. do A. Prodr. 150 ; Wight lU,. i. 

 t. 67; Grak. Cat. Bmnh. PI. 37; Dalz. db Gibs. £omb. Fl. 46; WaU. 

 Cat. 8481 ; Brandis Far. Flor. 58. 



N. W. India (probably introduced) ; Behak, and Western Peninsdla. — ^Distbib. 

 Queensland (var. im^erhijlora). 



A tree 60-80 ft. Leaves 1 ft. or more ; leaflets very numerous, on long petioles, very 

 unequal at the base. Flowers larger than in A. glandulosa, on lougish pedicels, in large 

 lax often very much-branched panicles. Petals ovate-lanceolate, commonly reflexed. 

 Filaments half the length of the anther. Samara larger than in A. glandulosa, 2 in. 

 by 4 in., strongly veined, blunt or pointed at both ends, copper-red, always once or twice 

 twisted at the base. • 



2. A. malabarlca, DC. Prodr. ii. 89 ; leaflets almost entire nearly 

 glabrous on long petioles very unequal at the base, filaments filiform, 

 samara large rounded. W. <fc A. Prodr. 150; Wight Ic. t. 1604; Thwaites 

 Enum. 69 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 37 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bvmh. Fl. 46 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 122 ; Brandis For. Flor. 58.— Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 15. 



Western Peninsula, in Canara, &c. ; Ceylon, near Colombo, and district of the 

 Seven Corles. — Distrib. Cochin China. 



A lofty_ tree. Leaves very large ; leaflets distant, coriaceous, much lighter beneath, 

 the two sides very unequal, margin often thickened and wavy. Flowers as in A. esccelsa, 

 but rather larger, and filaments very slender, exserted, many times longer tiian the 

 anther. Samara broadly linear, 2^ by J in., reddish, not twisted, rounded at both ends. 



2. SAmADERA, Geertn. 



Larger or smaller glabrous trees. Leaves simple. Flmeers hermaphrodite, 

 in peduncled axillary or terminal umbels. Calyx small, 3-5-partite, im- 

 bricate. Petals 3-5„ much longer than calyx, coriaceous, imbricate. DiA 

 large, conical. Starnens 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. 

 —Disteib. Tropical Asia and Madagascar. Species 3. 



