iSamadera.] xxxiv. simarube^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 519 



1. S. Indica, Gcertn. Frut. ii, t. 156; leaves elliptic-lanceolate fleshy, 

 umbels many -flowered on very long peduncles equalling the leaves, fruit 

 coriaceous glabrous smooth or slightly reticulated. Wight El. t. 68 ; W.&A. 

 Prodr. 151 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 37 ; Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 7 ; Planch, in 

 Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. v. 662 ; Thwaites Enum. 70. Niota pentapetala, 

 Pair, in Lamk Diet. iv. 490 ; JJG. Prodr. i. 592. K tetrapetala, Lamk. III. 

 t. 299, p. 4.^6 ; Poir. in Lamk. Diet. iv. 490 ; Bla-nc. Flor. Filip. ed. 2, 

 p. 213 ; Wall. Cat.. 6349. N. Lamarckiana, Blume Bijd. 251, 260. Vitt- 

 mannia elliptica, Vahl Symb. iii. t. 62. Manungala pendula, Blane. Flor. 

 FUip. p. 306. — Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 18. 



Western Peninsula ; throughout the S. Conoan, and Malabar. ' Ceylon, act un- 

 common in the South of the Island. 



A small tree, 30-35 ft., with stout branches. Leaves 8 by 3 in. or larger, blunt, with 

 short thick petioles. Flowers numerous, shortly stalked, in dense umbels. Calyx small, 

 thick, ciliated, persistent in fruit. Petals narrowly oblong, often apiculate. Stamens 

 twice as many as petals ; filaments ?ery long, with a scale at the base. Ovary 

 usually 4-celled. Fruit oval, IJ by 1 in. — There appears to be no reason for identifying, 

 with Lamk. and DC, this with the Madagascar species. 



2. S. luclda, Wall. Cat. 1062; and Plant. As. Bar. ii. t. 168; peduncle 

 of umbel shorter than the leaves, fruit strongly reticulated. Planch, in 

 Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. v. 562. Niota lucida. Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. t. 168. 

 Vittmannia lucida, Steud. Nmn. 



Tejjasserim, Wallich; Andaman Islds., Heifer. , 



Very nearly allied to S. indica, and perhaps only a variety. Leaves a paler green, 

 sometimes larger and with longer petioles. Umhels sometimes almost, sessile. Fruit 

 smaller, pear-shaped, dark-brown, glabrous, with a very narrow wing. 



3. KARXIISONIA,, Brown. 



Glabrous spiny shrubs. Leaves unequally .pinnate or 1-foliolate. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, in bracteate cymes. Calyx small, 4-5-'fid. Petals 

 4-5, longer than calyx. Disk hemispherical. Stamens 8-10, with small 

 .scales at the base. Ovary globose or 4-5-lobed, 4-5-celled ; styles connate 

 or distinct at the base ; ovules solitp,ry, pendulous. Fruit a small globose 

 berry. Seed solitary, sparingly albuminous. — Disteib. Tropical Asia, 

 Australia, and Africa. Species 3-4. 



Oliver {Flor. Trap. Afr. i. 311) has shown that the affinities of this genus are rather 

 with this tribe of the Order than with Picramnieai, in which it is usually placed. 



1. K, Bennetii, Hook./, in Gen. Plant, i. 314; leaflets 6-9 entire or 

 crenate, calyx persistent, filaments glabrous with a hairy scale at the base, 

 styles completely united hairy. Lasiolepis paucijuga and multijuga, Berm. 

 PI. Jav. Mar. 202, t. 42. L. Bennetii, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. 

 V. 570. ' 



BiEMA and PBon, Qriffith, &o. — Distkib. Java, Philippines, Siam, S. China, 

 Africa (?) 



A woody shrub, with sharp short recurved spines (stipules?), especially on the lower 

 part, of the branches. Leaflets ovate, glabrous ; rachis broadened and even winged-and 

 articulated between the leaflets. Cymes terminal, 8-20-flowered. Ca?2/a;-segments 

 very small. Petals lauceolate, glabrous; Filaments lunger tlian petals, 5 rather shorter 

 than the other 5. Berry formed of 2-5 carpels, surrounded by the persistent oalyx^ 

 A specimen in the Hookerian Herbarium from Madura, " Herb. Hort. Bot. Calc. No. 

 1794," with the leaves 3-foliolate, appears distinct 



' Kurz {Andam. Rep. App. iv ) reports H. Brownii (?) a Philippine species, from 

 " Bird-Nest Cape, observed nowhere else, specimens lost." 



