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XXXII. SIMAfcUBE^E. 
[Harrison ia. 
Order XXXII. SIMARUBEiE. 
Trees or shrubs, usually bitter with pinnate, rarely simple 
leaves, alternate; stipules o. Inflorescence axillary, racemes 
panicled or cymose. Flowers usually unisexual and small, regular. 
Calyx 3- to 5-lobed, valvate or imbricate. Petals 3 to 5 (rarely 
o). Disc annular or elongate (rarely o). Stamens as many or 
twice as many; filaments free, often with a scale at base; anthers 
oblong, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, lobed, 
1- to 6-celled; styles 2 to 3 free. Fruit drupaceous, capsular or 
samaroid of 2 to 6 carpels. Seeds solitary, pendulous, albuminous. 
Species 130, tropical and sub-tropical regions. 
Leaves compound. 
Stamens 8 or 10; thorny bush . . . .1. Harrisonia 
Stamens 4; tree; paniculate . . . . .2. Picrasma 
Stamens 4; shrub; minute cymes in racemes . . 3. Brucea 
Stamens 5 ; tall shrub; panicles spreading large . 4. Eurycoma 
Leaves simple. 
Flowers umbelled on long peduncles; fruit large ovate, 
winged; small tree..5. Samadera 
Stamens 10; flowers panicled; gigantic tree; fruit like 
a mango ...... . , 6. Irvingia 
1. HARRISONIA, Brown. 
Glabrous spiny shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate or i-foliate. 
Flowers unisexual in bracteate cymes. Calyx small, 4- to 5-fid. 
Petals 4 to 5, longer. Disc hemispherical. Stamens 8 to 10, 
dilate at base. Ovary globose or 4- or 5-lobed; ovules solitary; 
styles connate or free at base. Fruit a small globose berry with 
2 or 3 pyrenes. Species 3 to 4, tropics of Old World. 
Leaves 5- to 9-foliate; rachis winged ; flowers terminal 
'2 in long . (1) H. Bennettii 
Leaves 3-foliolate; x'achis not winged; flowers axillary, 
■1 in. long . (2) H. Brownii 
(1) H. Bennettii Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 314; F.B.I. i. 519. 
Lasiolepis paucijuga and multijuga Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 202, t. 42. 
Scandent sarmentose shrub, thorny. Leaves 2-5 in. long, 
5- to 9-foliolate; rachis flattened or winged; leaflets ovate-rhom¬ 
boid crenate, 75 in. long, *5 to 7 in. wide. Cymes terminal, 2 in. 
long, 8- to 20-flowered; pedicels 'i in. long, hairy. Calyx small; 
sepals ovate acute. Petals dull red lanceolate, *2in. long. Filaments 
unequal, white slender, scales at base hairy. Styles united, hairy. 
Fruit of 3 to 5 carpels. Hab. Open country. Perlis at Kanga. 
Distrib. Burma, Siam, China, Malay islands. 
(2) H. Brownii fuss. Mem. Mas. Par. xii. 517, 540, t. 28; King, 
l.c. 227. 
Shrub, prickly. Leaflets 3, ovate to rhomboid acuminate, 
serrate, narrowed at base petiolulate; rachis not winged, ‘6 to 
