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Leaves usually crowded at tlie tips of the 

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 nate. Panicles terminal, spreading. Floivers small, polygamous. Cah/x small, 

 4-o-fid, deciduous, lobes slightly imbricate. Petals 4^5, spreading, subvalvate. 

 pisk cupular, broad, crenate. Stamens 8-10, inserted beneath the disk. Ovaiy 

 sessile, free, 4-5-celled ; styles 4-5, conniving ; ovules solitary, pendidous in 

 the cells. Dmpe fleshy; stone hard, thick, 1-5-celled, the cells erect or 

 diverging and opening by canals through the top of the stone. Seeds pendidous, 

 testa uiembranous; embryo straight, cotyledons elongate plano-convex, radicle 

 short superior. — Distrib. About 8 species all tropical. 



'\ Spo^•I)IAS DtTLas, JVilld. ; Eoxb. Fl. huh ii. 452; Wall. Cat. 8477 A.; with 

 crenate longer leaflets, is a South-Sea Island plant, introduced into India, and called 

 ' Hog-plum' and * Otiibeite Apple.'— WalL Cat. 8477 B. from the Calcutta gardens is 

 in part S. lutea, L., the Hog-plum of the "West Indies. 



Spokpias?; Wall, Cat, 8479, from Hurd\var appears to be Ehtis szcccedanea, 



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1. S. mangrifera, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 75 : leaflets 4-G pairs 2-9 in. 



Grah, Cat. JBomb. PL 42; Brand. Foy\ Flor. 128/ S. amara, Lamh. ; Ham 

 Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. 531. Evia amara, Covmi. ; Blume Mus, Sot. i. 2 

 Thivaxtes Enum, 78. Manp^ifera pinnata, K(cn. (not LamJc). — Mlieede II 

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 Cetlox, ascending to 6000 ft, in the Hi:malaya, "Wild and cultivated.—DisTKin. 



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A small tree, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 1-1^ ft. ; petiole slender; leaflets 2-9 

 hy 1-4 in., shortlj^ petiolulate, shining, more or less oblique ; nerves 10-30 on each 

 fiide,^ horizontal, joined hy a strong intra-marginal one. Panicles large, spreading? 

 sparingly branched. Flowers J in. diam., scattered, uni- or bisexual. Calyx 5-toothed. 

 Petals oblong, greenish--fthitc. Bisk broad, 10-toothed. Filaments short, subiilate. 

 Drupe U-2 in. long, yello-\v, smooth; flesh very austere; stone cavernous, usually 

 Tvith 1 (1-3) perfect seed.— The * Amra' of the Hindoos, and the HoK-plum of many 

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2. S. acuminata, Poxh. FL hid. ii. 453; leaflets 5-8 pair 1^-3 in. 

 elliptic caudate-acuminate q^uite entire or ohscmely crenulate, panicle 6-8 in., 

 drupe ovoid-globose, stone smooth fibrous. Grah. Cat. Bmnh. PI 42 : W. ^ A* 

 Prodr. 173; 1n-lL Cat . 8478. 



WESTEnx P>:nixst;i.a ; Malabar, Ile^ne, Poxhtrgh; in the Concan hills, near 

 Kenuery eaves, Graham ; Canara, liitchic. 



^An ^elecant middling sized tree (Roxb.), apparently differing from S. mavgifera 

 chiefly in the smaller leaves with longer points, the very abort panicle, and smooth 

 etone (if I am right in referring a fruiting plant in Wight^s Herbarium to this 

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