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Fruit compressed, oblique, broadly winged. 
Shi7lea BA” SAGs cosas epee ica. 4. SMODINGIUM. 
Calyx in fruit enlarged and coloured. . . . . 5. LoxostyYLis. 
Tribe 2. SponpIE#. Ovary 2-5-celled; ovules 1 in each cell. 
Male flower spiked. Stamens12-15. . . . . . 6. SCLEROCARYA. 
Male flower panicled. Stamens8-9. . . . . . 7. HARPEPHYLLUM. 
Tribe 1. ANACARDIER. (Gen. 1-4.) 
1. ODINA, Roxb. 
Flowers polygamo-diccious. Calyx 4—5-lobed, persistent, the 
lobes imbricate. Petals 4-5, patent or reflexed. Disk annular, 
4-5 crenate.—Male: Stamens 8-10, under the disk. Barren 
ovary 4-5-parted—Female: Ovary sessile, free, oblong, 1- 
celled; styles 8-4. Drupe compressed, oblong-reniform, 
crowned with the persistent styles.— 1. Cap. 1. p. 503. 
Large trees, Indian and African. Leaves usually pinnate ; leaflets oppo- 
site, subsessile, entire, pale beneath. Racemes terminal, tufted. Flowers 
small.—2 South African species, both from Magalisberg. 
2. RHUS, Linn. 
Flowers polygamo-diecious. Calyx small, 5—6-parted, per- 
sistent. Petals 5-6, oblong or ovate, spreading. Stamens 
5-6. Ovary subglobose, 1-celled (abortive in the male flower); 
styles 3, free or connate. Drupe nearly dry or slightly fleshy, 
1-celled, containing a bony, 1-seeded nucleus.—£. Cap. 1. p. 
504, Being 
A large and varied cosmopolitan genus. The leaves in the Cape species 
are either 3-foliate or simple. Flowers panicled, small, green.— Perhaps 60 
(several undescribed newly-discovered at Natal) South African species, 
dispersed. 
3. BOTRYCERAS, Willd. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx 4-5-cleft nearly to the 
base, spreading ; lobes oblong, imbricate. Petals 4-5, lanceo- 
late, reflexed. Stamens 4-5, around the base of the fleshy, 
annular disk. Ovary 0.—Female: Calyx and corolla per- 
sistent, as in the male, but the petals are oblong, obtuse. 
Ovary ovate, compressed, l-celled; style 1, thick, oblique ; 
stigmas 3, bristly. Fruit with a membranous pericarp, com- 
pressed, winged at the margin, rugose, tipped with the persis- 
tent style. 
B. laurinum, Willd., the only species, is a large, glabrous and resinous 
shrub, with simple, elliptic-oblong, penninerved, serrate leaves. 
4, SMODINGIUM, E. Mey. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5, 
oblong, deciduous. Stamens 5; filaments subulate. Ovary 
free, sessile, 1-celled; styles 3. Fruit compressed, the margin 
