286 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
1. Odina Oghigee, Hook. fil. —Spondias Oghigee, G. Don, Gard. 
Dict. 2. p. 79.—Sierra Leone, Don; Grand Bassa, Vogel, who 
states that the bark is converted into powder by the natives 
and mixed with other substances to form a paint for the face. 
This species appears to be so very near to the East Indian 
O. Wodier, that the imperfect specimens of the collection 
afford no positive character to distinguish it. "They are perhaps 
more perfectly glabrous than the East Indian ones, and the 
leaflets rather less numerous. The ovary is, as in O. Wodier, 
unilocular, with one ovule suspended from the top of the cavity, 
and is crowned by four short styles, each of which is truncated 
and apparently stigmatic at the apex. 
There are two other W. African species, O. acida and O. velu- 
tina, both from Senegal, and published by A. Richard, under 
the new generic name of Lannea, but since correctly referred to 
Odina by Endlicher. : 
1. Sorindeia heterophylla, Hook. fil. ; foliis simplicibus pinnatisve 
foliolisque oblongis coriaceis glabris, venulis anastomosanti- 
bus convergentibus in venulas spurias versus axillas venarum 
reversas, paniculis axillaribus laxis, floribus masculis 10-15- 
. andris.—Sapindus simplicifolius, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 1. p- 
666.—Sierra Leone, Don. 
Habitus, glabrities, inflorescentia et flores masculi omnino S. 
Madagascariensis ; flores fæminei et fructus desunt. Foliola 
speciminis alterius omnia simplicia, inferiora 8 poll. longa, 4 
poll. lata, petiolo ultrapollicari, superiora 3 poll. longa; 2 poll. 
lata, petiolo 3-4-lineari; omnia brevissime et obtuse acum 
nata, basi acutiuscula et zequalia, nisi folio infimo maximo cul 
basis hine valde dilatarur; panicule in axillis superioribus 
folio multo longiores, pauciflore. In speciminibus ceteris 
pariter floriferis folia ommia pinnata; his foliola 3-7, foliis 
simplicibus similia sed szpius angustiora et basi plus munus 
inzqualia. —Calyces ut in S. Madagascariensi breves, bre- 
vissime 5-dentati. Petala 4, estivatione valvata. Stamina 
10-15, disco planiuseulo inordinate inserta, pleraque tamen 
marginalia. 
The singular venation of the leaflets and leaves of this plant, 
