522 XXXIV. siMARUBE*. (Alfred W. Bennett.) [Mirycma. 



2. Z:. apiculata, A. W. Bennett; leaflets elliptic apiculate, panicles 

 slightly hairy, calyx hairy without, petals ligulate, filaments not appen- 

 diculate. 

 Penahg, Maingay. i ■ i. 



Leaves very long; leaflets ending in an abrupt point, dotted on the lateral veinB be- 

 neath. Panicles denser than in E. longifolia; the rachis and pedicels slightly hairy. 

 Calyx-segments not ciliate. Petals very narrow, 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, glabrous. 

 Filaments very short, J-J as long as the petals, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



7. SVRIANA, Linn. 

 An insipid littoral shrub. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 conspicuous. Calyx 5-partite, imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate. 

 Disk inconspicuous. Stamens 10, unequal in length, 5 sonietimes barren.. 

 Ovary of 5 free carpels ; styles basilar, filiform ; ovules 2 in each carpel, 

 lateral. Fruit consisting of 5 or fewer carpels covered by the persistent 

 calyx, each 1-seeded, indehiscent. Seed ascending, exalbuminous. 



1. S. maritima, Linn. Gen. No. 581 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 91 ; IF. <fc A. Prodr. 

 361. 



Throughout the tropical shores of India. — Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 



Branches thick, covered with a velvety pubescence. Leaves about 1 in. long, linear- 

 spathulate, obtuse, velvety. Flowers \-\ in. across, terminal, hidden by the leaves. 

 Petals i by J in. long, ectualling the calyx, ovate-acute, yellow. ' 



8. XXIVXNGIA, Hook. f. 



Glabrous insipid trees. Leaves simple, coriaceous, entire, with deciduous 

 stipules. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary panicles, ebracteate. Calyx 

 smaU, 4-5-partite, imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. Dish very large, 

 cushion-shaped and folded. Stamens 10, inserted beneath the disk, fila- 

 ments long, slender. Ovary conical, compressed, 2-celled, entire; style 

 simple, terminal; ovules solitary. Fruit large, drupaceous, 1-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous, exalbuminous. — Disteib. Species 3-4 ; all but the fol- 

 lowing Tropical African. 



1. I. malayana, Oliver, ms. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Branches striated, glabrous, annulated at or near the nodes. Leaves large and thick, 

 4 by 2 in., elliptic, acute, quite entire, petiolate, base rounded and somewhat unequal. 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillaiy racemes or panicles. Calyx persistent; 

 lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals twice as long as the caly^-lobes, reflexed after flowering. 

 Filaments as long as the petals. Ovary conical, rising from the centre of a very large 

 disk and narrowing into a terminal style. 



9. BAIiANITES, Delile. 



Spiny shrubs or trees. Leaves coriaceous, 2-foliolate, entire. Fhwers 

 green, in small axillary cymes. CoZyoi-segments 5, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Petals 5, imbricate. Disk thick, conical, entire. Ovary entire, globose, 

 1-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit a large fleshy oily 1-seeded 

 drape. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous. — Disteib. Tropical and Northern 

 Africa, Syria, and W. Asia ; species 2 (?). 



1. B. Roxbur^bli, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, ii 258 ; petals 

 velvety. Brandis. For. Flor. 59. B. sgyptiaca, Wall. Cat. 6855 ; Orah. Gat. 

 Bomb. PL 23 ; Wight Ic. t. 274. Ximenia aegyptiaca, .Hoa;6. Fl. Ind. ii. 253. 



Drier parts of India from Cawnpobe to Sikkim, Behar, Goozebat, Kahdeish, and 

 the Decoak ; Enou, Griffith. 



