Spondias!\ AfiacardiaceeE. 327 



stam. 10, inserted outside and beneath disk; disk large, 

 expanded ; ov. partly immersed in disk, 5-celled, with i 

 pendulous ovule in each cell, styles 5, distinct, short ; drupe 

 large, ovoid, stone spongy-woody, very hard, 5-celled, usually 

 only I -seeded ; cotyledons flat. — Sp. 8; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. mang-ifera, Willd. Sp. PL ii. 751 (1799). Embarella, S. 

 Ampallai, T. 



Moon Cat. 36. Evia ainara, Comm., Thw. Enum. 78. Engler, 

 Mon. 248. C. P. 1263. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 42. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 169. Wight, 111. t. 76. 



A small or moderate- sized deciduous tree, with a straight 

 trunk and smooth, pale bark, young parts glabrous ; 1. large, 

 pinnate, rachis 9-12 in., thickened at base, cylindrical, striate, 

 glabrous, Iflts. 3-5 pair and a terminal one, opp. or alt., 

 articulated, very shortly stalked, t,-6 in., oval or oblong-oval, 

 often rather unequal at base, acuminate, quite entire, glabrous, 

 thin, lat. veins numerous, horizontal, straight, pellucid, con- 

 nected by a strong intra-marginal one ; fl. \ in., sessile, in 

 small clusters on the spreading branches of stout, erect, 

 pyramidal, glabrous, terminal panicles, appearing before the 

 young 1.; pet. acuminate, reflexed ; disk lo-lobed ; drupe 

 ovoid, 2 in., smooth, yellow, flesh firm with a milky juice, 

 stone very large, thick and woody, cells small, usually all 

 empty but one. 



Moist low country; common, often planted. Fl. Jan.; pale pinkish- 

 green. 



Throughout Tropical Asia. 



Wood whitish, soft, light, useless. The fruit is called the * Hog- Plum,' 

 and is eaten, but is unpalatable unless preserved. 



This is deciduous and quite bare of leaves for a short time at end of 

 the dry weather. The young foliage, which appears in April, is a beauti- 

 ful orange-pink colour. All the plant has a strong terebinthinate odour 

 when bruised. 



Moringa pterygosperma, Gaertn. {M. seylanica, Pers.) is much culti- 

 vated in native gardens, and appears semi-wild. There are specimens in 

 Hermann's Herb. (Fl. Zeyl. n. 155), and it is figured in Burm. Thes. t. 75. 

 Well known as Murunga, S. and as 'Horse-radish tree' by the English. 

 The long fruit is much eaten in curries, and the root is a good substitute 

 for horse-radish, the seeds afford an oil. Native of Northern India. 

 Moringa has a remarkable floral structure, and forms of itself the small 

 order MoringacecB. 



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