Entry for BRUCEA antidysenterica Mill. [family SIMAROUBACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 308, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
BRUCEA antidysentericaMill. [family SIMAROUBACEAE], DC. Prod. ii. 88.
BRUCEA ferrugineaL'Hér. [family SIMAROUBACEAE], Stirp. Nov. t. 10.
Information
A small tree, reaching sometimes 15–20 ft. Extremities pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 8–20 in. long; leaflets opposite or subopposite, ovate ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, occasionally broadly oblong, acute or very shortly acuminate, entire or undulate-toothed, softly pubescent on both surfaces at first, at length more or less glabrescent at least above, older leaves often coriaceous, 2–4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad. Petiolules 1–3 lines. Male flowers in interrupted, elon-gate, pilose-tomentose spikes 4–10 in. long, from the axils of the uppermost leaves; very small, sessile or subsessile, clustered in the axils of minute bracts. Female flowers apparently pedicellate. Drupes about 1/2 in. long.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! (with oblong leaflets) Plowden!Upper Guinea Camaroons mountain, 7–8000 ft., Mann!
