Brueea.] xxxiv. simarube^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 521 



panicles. Oalyx minute, 4-^artite, imbricate. Fetals 4, minute, linear, 

 imbricate. Disk 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted beneath the disk ; filaments 

 naked. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, or consisting of 4 entirely free, carpels. 

 Drupes 4, entirely free, ovoid, somewhat fleshy. Seed solitary, exalbu- 

 minous.— DiSTKiB. Africa, Tropical Asia, Australia ; species 6. 



1. B. sumatrana, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 449 ; leaves very large, leaflets 

 numerous very coarsely toothed villous beneath, panicles very long com- 

 pound, flowers usually hermaphrodite, filaments short. DO. Prodr. ii. 88 ; 

 Wall. Gat. 8482 ; Blume Bijd. 1167. 



Assam; Eastern Peninsula; in Tenasserim and the Andaman Islds., Heifer; 

 Sincapore, WaUich. — Distkib. Borneo, Sumatra, Jaya, Philippines, South China, 

 Australia. 



A shruh with bitter and somewhat foetid properties. Leaves often more than a foot 

 long, covered with a dense yellow pubescence, especially on the veins, &c. beneath, 

 the lowest leaflets sometimes compound. Panicles axillary ; rachis greatly elongated, 

 yellow-pubescent; the minute jSoioers collected into small rather distant stalked cymes. 

 Oalyx very minute. Petals larger than the calyx-segmente, linear-spathulate. Stamens 

 not exceeding petals in length. Drupes J-J in., black, glabrous, reticulated. 



2. B. mollis, WaM. Gat. 8483 ; leaflets numerous lanceolate-acute entire 

 usually pubescent, racemes compound, drupes ovoid. Kurz in Joum. As. 

 'Soc. JSetig. xlii. pt. ii p. 64. 



Subtropcal Eastern Himalaya; Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 3-6000 ft., Griffith, ani 

 SiLHET, WaUicL 



A bitter shrub. Leaflets larger than in B. sumatrana, 3 by 2 in., from pubescent to 

 nearly glabrous. Panides axillary; rachis pubescent or nearly glabrous; secondary 

 cymes often many-flowered. Petals linear, longer than the stamens. Drupes much 

 larger than in B. sumatrana, J-J in., brown, glabrous, scarcely reticulated. 



6. EVRYCOmA, Jack. 



Small trees, with bitter bark. Leaves very large, unequally pinnate, with 

 entire leaflets. Flowers polygamous, in much-branched subterminal hairy 

 panicles. Galyx minute, 5-toothed, valvate. Petals 5, induplicate-Valvate. 

 Dish 0. Stamens in male and hermaphrodite flowers 5, smaller in the 

 latter ; filaments attached to the base of the petals. Ovary 5-partite, free ; 

 styles5, connate, stigmas distinct. Drupes 3-5,stipitate. /Sisec? solitary, pendu- 

 lous, exalbuminous. — Disteib. Malacca, Archipelago, Philippines. Species 2. 



1. B, lon^ifolla, Jack, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Ga/rey, ii. 307 ; leaflets elliptic 

 acute, panicles glandular-hairy, calyx-segments glandular, petals ovate- 

 lanceolate, filaments appendiculate. DG. Prodr. n. SQ; Wall. Gat. 8522,- 

 Planch. in Hook. Lmid. Joum. Bot. v. 584. E. merguensis, Planch. l.c. 

 E. tavoyana. Wall. Gal. 8523. 



Tenasseiom, Parish, and the Andaman Islds., Heifer, to Malacca, Penang, and 

 Sincapore.^— Distkib. Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. 



A' tree with bitter properties. Leaves a foot or more long, with a large number of 

 coriaceous (often not opposite) leaflets, much paler beneath. Panicles large, spreading, 

 and much-branched ; rachis and pedicels covered with a rufous glandular pubescence. 

 Padls 4 times as long as calyx-segments, J by .^ in. broad, very finely pubescent 

 *ithin and without. Filaments broad, half as long as the petals, glabrous, with a 

 ligalate ciliated appendage at the base. Drupes hard, ovoid, \ in, long, J in. broad. — 

 I am unable to distinguish the specimen of Planchon's E. merguensis in the Hookerian 

 Herbarium by the alleged character of the filaments ; otherwise it precisely resembles 

 the type. 



