520 XXXIV. siMARUBE^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Picrasma. 



4 FICRASmA., Blame. 



Trees or shrubs -with very bitter properties. Leaves very large, unequally 

 pinnate. Flowers small, diclinous or polygamous, in axillary^ panicles. 

 Cal^x very small, 4-5-tootlied. Petals 4r-5, valvate, very often increasing 

 after flowering. Bisk thici, entire. Stamens 4r-5, not scaly, hairy. Ovary 

 3-6-partite, free ; styles distinct at the base and apex, but united in the 

 middle, stigmas simple : ovules erect, solitary. Fruit of 1-3 fleshy or 

 coriaceous drupes. Seed erect, albuminous. —Disteib. India, Archipelago, 

 China, Japan, West Indies, Brazil. Species about 6. 



1. P. quassioides, Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 198 ; leaflets numerous obovate 

 acuminate serrate, flowers polygamous in pubescent panicles, calyx-seg- 

 ments petals and stamens 5, petals persistent in female and hermaphrodite 

 flowers, filaments strap-shaped equalling the petals villous. Planch, in 

 Hook. Lend. Joum. Sot, v. 573 ; Wall. Cat. 8506. Simaba quassioides. 

 Ham. in Bon Prodr. 248. Nima quassioides. Ham. mss. 



Subtropical Himalaya ; from Jamu to Nipal, ascending to 8000 ft. in Gaewhal ; 

 Bhotan, Griffith. — Distbib. S. China. 



A large ecrambling shrub, with stout often spotted branches and very bitter bark. 

 Leaves a foot or more long, of 9-15 leaflets, the lowest pair much smaller and stipuli- 

 form. Flowers green. Cfe?jra;-3egnients small, imbricate. Petals ovate Or obovate, 

 much enlarged and coriaceous in fruit. Fruit of 3-5 rather membranous drupes, about 

 the size of a pea, each containing 1 erect seed. 



2. P. javanica, Blume Bijd. p. 248 ; leaflets 3-7 eUiptic-oblong abruptly 

 obtusely acuminate quite glabrous, margins flat quite entire, tips not above 

 i-i the length of the blade, flowers 4-merous. Benn. Flor. Jav. 197, t. 41 ; 

 Planch, in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. v. 573. 



Malacca, Maingay. — Disteib. Java. 



A moderate- sized tree, of which there are two forms (or species) in Java — one with 

 elliptic oblong leaflets and a slightly pubescent panicle, and with which the Malacca 

 specimens agree ; the other .with more obovate leaflets and a glabrous panicle. 



Vae. ? mishmdensis ; leaflets 5-9, elliptic oblong more coriaceous, drupes larger, J in. 

 diam. — Mishmi hills near Jingsha, Griffith. 



3. P. nepalensis, Benn. Flor. Jav. 201 ; leaflets 5-7 elliptic-lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate quite glabrous, margins waved or wrinkled quite entire, 

 tips J— I the length of the blade, flowers 4-merous. Planch, in Hook. Lond. 

 Joum. Bot. V. 573. Brucea? WaM. Gat. 7499. B. dubia, Sieud. Nom. — Inde- 

 terminata. Wall. Gat. 9037 (see under 8506). 



NiPAL, Wallich; Khasia Mts., De Silva, Griffith. 



A smaller and narrower leafleled plant than P. javanica, with longer points to the 

 leaves which have wrinkled white edges when dry ; the branches of the panicle are more 

 slender and the anthers larger. 



4. P. andamanica, Kurz Andam. Rep. App. iv. ; leaflets elliptic- 

 oblong rounded at the base, abruptly obtusely acuminate quite entire, 

 flowers 4-merous, petals glandular. 



Sooth Andaman Islands, Kvrz. 



A tree with very smooth branches, closely Tesem"bling P. javanica. Leaflets vari- 

 able in number, 6 by 24 in„ thinner, and scarcely thickened at the margin, much more 

 rounded at the base and often un equilateral. Panicle rather lax, perfectly glabroas. 

 One or more of thejpetois of the male flowers with two l.irge glandular dots. Fruit un- 

 known. 



5. BRVCEA, Mill. 



Bitter trees or shrubs. Leaves very large, unequally pinnata FUmiers 

 very small, in very numerous very smaU cymes collected into axillary 



