448 XLV. ANACARDIACE.E (OLIVER). [Spondiai. 



convex cotyledons. — Trees. Leaves alternate, often somewhat crowded at 

 the extremities, unequally pinnate ; leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire. 

 Flowers in terminal spreading panicles. 



A small tropical genus of which two or three species are cultivated for the sake of their 

 fruit (the Hog Plum). 



Tlowers 2-3 lines diam. Petals valvate *\. S. lutea. 



Flowers 1 line diam. Petals imbricate 2. S. microcarpa. 



•1. S. lutea, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 75. A large tree, wholly glabrous 

 or the leaves puberulous on rachis and nervation. Leaves f— 1 £ ft., 7—9—1"" 

 foliolate, membranous or subcoriaceous, wholly glabrous or the rachis and 

 nervation puberulous ; leaflets opposite or subopposite, obliquely ovate-lan- 

 ceolate or -oblong, obtusely pointed, or acuminate, rounded at the base on 

 the upper margin, often obscurely undulate-crenate, more or less distinctly 

 reticulate beneath with a marginal vein, petiolulate, 2-3£ in. long, 1-1 j in. 

 broad ; petiolules 1-3 lines. Flowers small, in terminal, spreading, rather 

 lax, many-flowered panicles equalling or exceeding the leaves ; pedicels 1-6 

 lines, glabrous or puberulous. Calyx minute, 5 -toothed. Petals oval, at 

 length widely spreading or recurved, valvate in bud. Filaments filiform, 

 inserted round a conspicuous plicate or lobed disk. Ovary glabrous, 5- 

 celled. Drupe nearly as large as a plum, yellow or orange. — S. auranwca, 

 Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 225 (ex descr.). 8. ? dubia, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. 

 i. 153. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieber ! near Sierra Leone, Dr. Kirk ! Niger, Barter ! Grand 

 Bassa, T. Vogel ! Ambas Bay, Mann ! Annabon, Burton ! 



Indigenous in the "W. Indies and tropical America. The fruit is eaten. 



2. S. microcarpa, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. i. 151. t. 40. A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves 5-1 3 -foliolate, 9-18 in. long; leaflets rather coriaceous, alternate or 

 subopposite, ovate-oblong or the terminal elliptical, lateral very oblique, acu- 

 minate, upper margin at the base rounded, glabrous, reticulate, entire, dis- 

 tinctly petiolulate, 3-6 in. long, l£-3 in. broad ; petiolules J-i in- Mj f 

 flowers 4-5-merous, very small, about 1 line in diam., whitish, usually sub- 

 sessile, in laxly branching panicles of i-1 ft. or more from the axils of the 

 upper leaves. Calyx-lobes ovate. Petals distinctly imbricate. Stamens 

 or 10, around a crenate disk. Rudiment of ovary 4-fid. Drupe fleshy, 

 ovoid, the size of a grape, yellow, with a 1-4-celled putamen.— (?& Zanzee ' 

 Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 79.) 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet ! 



This plant having been referred to Tapiria by M. Planchon in the Kew herbarium, ftjj 

 genus is stated to be African in the ' Genera Plantarum ' of Messrs. Benthamand Hooker, ° 

 in a few young fruits attached to the Kew specimens the ovary is certainly not 1 -celled w 

 consequently must be referred to Bpondiea, although it does not appear to be a gw« 

 Spondias. 



S. Oghigee and S. Zanzee, Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 79, I cannot quite satisfactorily determine- 

 They are most imperfectly described and the specimens are insufficient or confl,c ^" p ' m 

 Oghigee, collected at Sierra Leoue by Don, in the herbarium of the British Muse i 

 is evidently an Odina, as determined by Dr. Hooker (Fl. Nigrit. 286). I have quotea 

 as a doubtful synonym of O. acida. Of S. Zanzee there is in the same collection a sing 



