294 ss @OTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Odina. 
tive beauty of the tree, and renders the shade when in 
foliage much less extensive, than in its natural state. 
Leaves alternate, about the ends of the branchlets, pin- 
nate with an odd one, from twelve to eighteen inches 
long. Leaflets generally three or four pair, opposite, ses- 
sile, oblong, ovate, pointed, smooth, entire ; about five in- 
ches long, and two broad, the exterior ones largest, Ra- 
cemes terminal, filiform, pendulous if long, which they ge- 
nerally are, if short spreading. Bractes minute, falling, 
Flowers small, purple, inodorous, 
In general the Hermaphrodite and Male flowers (there 
are no other sort that ever I saw,) are on the same tree, . 
and even mixed on the same racemes ; the male are by far 
the most numerous ; sometimes but fafely they are ona 
separate tree. gee 
HeeMarnropirs. Calyx four-toothed, small, perma- 
nent. Petals four, oblong, concave, spreading. Filaments 
eight, spreading, rather shorter than the petals. Anther$ 
ovate. Germ superior, oblong, one-celled, containing 
one ovula, attached to the top of the cell. Styles four, ae 
‘short, erect, Stigmas simple. Drupe kidney-form, smooth, 
the size of a large french bean, when ripe red, one-celled. 
Nut the shape of the berry, one-celled. Seed conform t0 
the nut; no perisperm. Embryo inverse,curved. 
Mate. Calyx, Corol, and Stamens as in the hermaphro- 
dite. Pistil the rudiments of a germ, with a short, four 
toothed style. 
The wood.of old trees is close grained, of a deep | ae 
dish mahogany colour towards the centre. This colou! 
ed part is serviceable for many uses, and looks well. The 
white wood is fit for no use that I know of. Ze 
‘From wounds in the bark there issues a gum, which, . 
when dry, is much like pieces of dry glue ; but I know % 
no use it is put to. ) i 
This is the tree Dr. Anderson calls Wodur in} his 
cellanies, 202 @ogeeeviae G2 oats tion jeeun ener 
