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VII. SOLENOCARPUS. W.& A. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, 5-cleft, deciduous: segments rounded.. 
Petals 5, oval, sessile, equal, inserted between the calyx and the disk: æsti- 
vation valvular. Stamens 10, inserted below the margin of the disk: fila- 
ments alternately shorter, nearly as long as the corolla: anthers elliptical. 
Torus a slightly concave entire disk, girding the base of the ovary. Ovary 
free, sessile, 1-celled: ovule solitary, pendulous from a short podosperm on 
one side near the apex of the cell. Style 1, thick, nearly as long as the sta- 
mens, furrowed longitudinally along the one side. Stigma oblique. Fruit 
(immature) somewhat reniform, hairy: pericarp with several (10 or fewer) 
longitudinal linear cells (vitte) full of fragrant oil in its substance, 1-celled, 
l-seeded. Seed pendulous from the apex of the convex side of the fruit.— 
A tree? Leaves fascicled at the extremities of the old branches and alternate 
9n the young ones, on longish petioles, unequally pinnated : leaflets 5-7- 
pairs, elliptic-oblong, acuminated, slightly crenulated, glabrous, paler be- 
neath ; lateral nerves pellucid, uniting into one that is parallel and close to 
‘the margins. Panicles fascicled, from the apex of the branches. Lu 
We had some doubts whether this might not form a second species of Pegia, but 
80 far as we can ascertain from Colebrooke’s imperfect description, it must be dis- 
tinct. In Pegia the calyx is persistent, and the fruit is globular: the foliage and the 
general appearance also appear to be different. In many points our genus resembles 
the following : both have considerable affinity with the Burseracee. 
Courtallum. 
529. (1) S. Indica (W. & A.)—Wight ! cat. n. 546, 547. 
VIII. ODINA. Roxb. 
Polygamous. Calyx shortly 4-lobed, persistent, segments rounded. Pe- 
tals 5, oblong, concave, spreading : æstivation imbricative. Stamens inserted 
below the margin of the disk: anthers ovate. Torus discoid, fleshy, 8-cre- 
nated, the erenatures alternating with the stamens. Rudimentary pistillum 
(in the male) 4-partite ; segments erect, compressed, clavate. Ovary (in the 
bisexual flowers) free, oblong, 1-celled: ovule solitary, pendulous from one 
side near the apex of the cell. Styles 4, from the top of the ovary short, 
erect. Stigmas simple. Drupe reniform, glabrous, not compressed, very 
hard; 1-celled. Seed solitary, of the same shape as the nut. Embryoslight- 
ly curved, inverted, Cotyledons fleshy, flat.—Large trees. Leaves alternate, 
about the ends of the branches, unequally pinnated: leaflets 3-4-pair, oppo- 
Site, almost sessile, oblong-ovate, acuminated, glabrous, quite entire, paler 
beneath. Racemes terminal, fascicled, interrupted, filiform and pendulous. 
Owers small, fascicled. 
530. (1) O. wodier (Roxb.)—Rozb. ft. Ind. 2. p. 293; Wight! cat. n. 542. 
This is one of the most commonly cultivated and best known trees — 
9ut the Peninsula, where, though far from being either ornamental or useful, 
its quickness of growth from cuttings recommends it; but we have been un- 
able to detect any notice of it in European botanical works. Roxburgh does 
not mention the etymology : we know, however, that, in some of the southern 
cts, it is called O-the-yin-poo-marum, the first part of which may have 
d Odina. Wodier seems another native name; it is the Wodur of Dr 
Anderson’s miscellanies. 
