Spondias. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 453° 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta where it grows to bea 
large tree-with an extensive, very ramous head. Flow- 
ering time in Bengal, March ; the fruit ripens about the 
close of the rains. 
8.8. acuminata. R. 
Leaflets from five to eight pair, subopposite, long, oval, 
remotely sp iggad acuminate, polished ; petioles cylin- 
dric. 
A most elegant, middling-sized tree, with an uncom- 
monly dense crown, a native of Malabar. In the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta young trees reared from the seed, 
were in four years twenty feet high ; the trunk perfectly 
Straight; the bark smooth, olive grey; the branches 
Spreading in all directions from erecto-patens above, to | 
divaricate below. 
4. S. longifolia. R. 
Bark verrucose. Leaflets opposite and alternate, from 
ten to twelve pair, very unequally ovate-oblong, entire, 
lucid, obtusely acuminate. 
From the Mauritius this very distinct species has been 
introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 
its growth is rapid; it is nearly straight, with a few stout, 
patently diverging, almost, simple branches, very rough 
with brown tubercles; the leaflets very peeanelns Mivid~» 
ed by the nerve. wet 
.. S. axillaris. R 
Leaflets from six to eight pair, ovate-lanceolate, gash- 
Serrate cuspidate. Peduncles axillary, few-flowered. 
Nut oval, smooth. ! 
A small beautiful Melia looking tree, a native of Ne- 
pal. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta it flowers in 
March, and the seed Lape about the close of ee: rains. : 
