Tricho$cypAa.~\ xlv. anacardiacejs (olivee). 445 



the branches of short, spreading, terminal panicles of 4-6 in. Calyx 4-fid 

 with ovate segments. Petals ovate, obtuse, twice as long as the calyx. 

 Stamens equalling the petals, inserted round a hirsute disk. Young fruits 

 silky with ferruginous hairs, subsessile or on very short, pubescent, stout 

 pedicels. 



Upper Guinea. River Muni, W. tropical Africa, Mann ! 



Specimens, with male flowers only, of possibly a third species of Trichoscypha are in the 

 mw herbarium from Fernando Po (Mann). The flowers are sessile or subsessile, glome- 

 rate, in loosely branched panicles as in T. lucens, but the leaflets, in texture like those of 

 I Mannii, are only about 5 to each leaf. 



7. ODIWA, Roxb. j Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 423. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite; segments ovate or 

 roundish. Petals as many, imbricate. Disk small, annular or saucer-shaped. 

 Male fl. : Stamens 8 or 10, inserted under the margin of the disk ; anthers 

 versatile or subversatile. Eudiment of ovary usually 4-fid. Fertile fl. : 

 Anthers smaller, often effete (?). Ovary sessile, free, glabrous or hairy, 1- 

 MpL Styles 4 or 3, short, distinct, rather stout ; stigmas terminal, Ovule 

 solitary, pendulous. Drupe oblong or ellipsoidal, compressed. " Embryo 

 "'ith flat fleshy cotyledons." — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, deciduous, 

 unequally pinnate, usually collected at the extremities or in lateral tufts from 

 nodes of a previous year ; leaflets opposite, entire. Flowers racemose, often 

 fasciculate, shortly pedicellate or subsessile. 



A small genus of tropical Africa and Asia. One or two of the following are very nearly 

 wlied to Indian species and may prove, with additional material, to be identical. We have 

 %mentary specimens of apparently undescribed species of Odina in the Kew herbarium 

 from various intertropical African localities, but these scarcely deserve to be described. 



*° distinct species grow at the Cape. 



k«es fr-H ft. 

 Leafless at time of flowering. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, glabrescent, 



subsessile 1. 0. Schimperi. 



kaves present at time of flowering, 

 leaves early glabrous. 



leaflets subsessile 2 - O.fruticosa. 



Leaflets distinctly petiolulate 3 - 0. acida. 



Leaves pubescent or tomentose at least beneath. 



Hairs not stellate. Spikes fascicled on previous wood . . . 4. 0. Barteri. 

 , Tomentum stellate, especially beneath. Spikes 1 or 2, axillary 5. 0. velutina. 

 l*aves 1-6 hi. 



Leaflets obovate-cuneate. Ovary glabrous 6. 0. obovata. 



^aflets elliptical. Ovary hirsute 7- 0. humilts. 



!• O. Schimperi, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 140. Branches stout, 

 ^gose, leafless, apparently, at time of flowering. Leaves f-1 ft. with a 

 flattered stellate pubescence at first above, and early deciduous tomentum 

 ^neath, 9-ll.f li late ; leaflets submembranous, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed 

 10 a distinct, obtuse, narrow acumen, obliquely rounded at the base, sub- 

 ptfe or sessile. Racemes simple, clustered at the tomentose extremities 

 2 l «e leafless branches, at length (in ripe fruit) lateral by the elongation of 

 ttle terminal shoot ; racemes of sterile flowers 4-6 in. long, those bearing 



