172 TEREBINTHACE X. Rnvs. 
IX. RHUS. Linn. s Lam. ill. t. 207. 
Flowers polygamous or bisexual. Calyx small, 5-partite, persistent. Pe- 
tals 5, ovate, patent, inserted under the margin of the disk: sestivation im- 
bricative. Stamens 5, inserted into the disk, equal, free. Torus an orbicu- 
lar disk. Ovary sessile, ovate or globose, 1-celled : ovule solitary, suspended 
from a longish eurved podosperm rising from the base of the cell. Styles 8 
from the top of the ovary, distinct or combined. Stigmas distinct, obtuse 
or capitate. Fruit almost a dry drupe: nut bony, 1-celled. Seed solitary, 
frem a podosperm that rises from the base to the apex of the cell. Embryo 
inverted : cotyledons foliaceous : radicle opposite to the hilum, bent down- 
wards along the margin of the cotyledons.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves alter- 
nate, simple or compound. Panicles axillary or terminal. 
531. (1) R. (Sumac) decipiens (W. & A.:) leaves glabrous, unequally pin- 
nated ; rachis interruptedly winged, the portion between each leaflet tapering 
at the base and truncated at the apex; leaflets narrow-oblong or linear, ta- 
pering at the base, quite entire: panicles axillary, large, shorter than the 
leaves ; branches angled, spreading horizontally: disk woolly: ovary ovate: 
style clavate, shortly 3-cleft at the apex.—z ; leaflets narrow-oblong, about 
6 or 8 pair.—Wight! cat. n. 520.—Burm. zeyl. t. 45.—8; leaflets linear- 
acuminated, about 12 pair.— Wight ! cat. n. 521.——— Southern provinces. 
We fear that the characters of these varieties are not constant ; we have 
only seen the flowers of our 2. The same vernacular name, Mail-nochye, is 
applied to it that Leschenault and Jussieu gave to Mallea Rothii. 
532. (2) R. (Sumac) Mysurensis (Heyne:) branches often spinescent ; 
young ones, petioles, and panicles, densely pubescent: leaves palmately tri- 
foliate 3 leaflets obovate, retuse, sinuate-lobed, villous beneath, lateral ones 
roundish, terminal one much the largest with a cuneate tapering base: pani- 
cles terminal or from the axils of the upper leaves, much longer than the 
leaves: disk concave, glabrous, with the stamens inserted under its margin : 
styles distinct, each with a capitate stigma: fruit globose.— Heyne ! in herb. 
E. I. C.; G. Don in Mill. dict. 2. p.14; Wall.! L. n. 997 ; Wight! cat. n. 
519.—R. Indicum, herb. Madr.! Mysore, Heyne. 
, Very closely allied to R. parviflorum, Roxb., but differing in several par- 
c 
ticulars. 
Suborder 2. SPONDIE® (Kunth.) Flowers sometimes unisexual. 
Calyx 5-cleft, regular. Petals 5, equal: wstivation between valvate 
and imbricate. Stamens 10, perigynous, distinct. Torus large, dis- 
coid. Ovarium superior, sessile, 2-5-celled: ovules solitary, pendu- 
lous: styles 5, short: stigmas obtuse. Fruit drupaceous, 2-5-celled. 
Seed solitary in each cell. Albumen none. Radicle pointing to the 
hilum : cotyledons plano-convex.—Trees. Leaves imparipinnate, alter- 
nate, not dotted, exstipulate. 
X. SPONDIAS.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t, 384 ; Gertn. fr. t. 104. 
Flowers bisexual, but often sterile. Calyx small, 5-cleft or toothed, deci- 
duous. Petals 5, inserted under the margin of the disk, sessile, spreading: 
sestivation almost valvular. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals, Disk cup- 
shaped, with a crenulated elevated margin. Ovary free, sessile, 5-celled : 
