3 1 8 Anaca rdiacea, [ Odina. 



M. imiica, L. the common Mango, or ' Amba,' is cultivated, but not 

 anywliere wild in Ceylon. It differs from the wild M. zeylanica in having 

 the panicle more or less pubescent and less spreading, and in the acute 

 or acuminate leaves of a thinner texture. It seems to be native in many 

 parts of India. 



3. ODINA,* AVa-^. 



Trees; 1. imparipinnate; fl. unisexual, generally dioecious, 

 in axillary panicles ; cal. 4-lobed, imbricate, persistent ; pet. 4, 

 imbricate ; stam. 8, inserted outside and beneath disk, sterile 

 and very small in fem. fl. ; disk annular, 8-lobed; ov. i-celled, 

 with the ovule pendulous from top, barren and reduced to 

 4 lobes in male fl. ; styles 4, short, distinct, stigmas capitate; 

 drupe small, reniform-ovoid, stone very hard. — Sp. 13; i in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



O. Wodier,t T^o.vd. Fl. Ind. ii. 293 (1832). Kik, .V. Odi, T. 



Engler, Men. 267. Thw. Enum. 78. C. P. 1161. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 29. Wight, Ic. t. 60. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 123. 



A small deciduous tree, bark thick, brown, rather smooth, 

 young parts nearly glabrous or finely stellate-puberulous ; 

 1. imparipinnate, rachis 6-10 in., cylindrical, glabrous, swollen 

 at base, Iflts. 2-6 pair and a terminal one, shortly stalked or 

 nearly sessile, 3-5 in., lanceolate, acute or rounded, often 

 unequal at base, more or less caudate-acuminate, entire or 

 faintly crenate, glabrous, shining and deeply tinged with pink 

 when young ; fl. small, nearly sessile, in small clusters laxly 

 arranged on elongated, slightly branched, stellate-pubescent, 

 axillary panicles, appearing with the young leaves on the 

 new shoots ; cal. minute, hairy ; pet. oblong-oval, obtuse, 

 reflexed in fem. fl. ; ov. large, oblong, glabrous, styles very 

 stout, divaricate ; drupe about \ in., reniform-ovoid, obtuse, 

 compressed, smooth, stone reniform, very hard. 



Low country, in both dry and moist regions ; common, especially in 

 the former. Fl. Jan. -April, when the tree is bare of leaves ; pinkish- 

 yellow. 



Throughout India, and in Burma and Andaman Is.; also varieties in 

 Java and Trop. Africa. 



One of the few deciduous trees of Ceylon. 



Heart- wood red, rather heavy, moderately hard, close-grained. The 

 stem affords a gum. 



* From the Tamil name. 



t Wodicr is said to be the Tamil name in S. India ; probably merely 

 another form of ' Odi.' 



