;F4 ICACINACEiE. 



Yellow-wood. A woody climber covered all over the 



young parts with short curved prickles, glabrous except 



for the velvetty cymes. Leaves 4 to 7 inches, very 



prickly on the stalk. Leaflets usually five, nearly 



sessile, elliptic-ovate and suddenly contracted to a H 



inch notched tip, crenate-serrate, shining above, with 



numerous nearly parallel veins. Panicles axillary and 



terminal. Flowers nearly sessile, bunched at short 



intervals on the alternate branches. Calyx very small. 



Petals four, i/io inch valvate. Stamens twice as long. 



Ripe carpels four, 15 inch diameter, woody, opening 



to expose the single, black, very shining seed which 



remains attached some time before falling. 



In sholas ; belonging rather to the lower limits of our area. 

 Xilgiris : Kotagiriat 6,600 feet. Fyson 1698. Pulneys : 

 Shembaganur, etc. Not Kodaikanal. 



Gem, Dist. Nilgiris and Kurg mountains . 



For a note on the significance of the seeds remaining on the plant see 

 under TemstrcEmia japonica, p. 40. 



ICACINACEit. 



Trees and shrubs with alternate entire leaves ; flowers 

 in compound panicles, with lobed calyx, four or flve 

 petals and stamens, and one cell only to the ovary, in 

 which are two ovules pendent from the top of the cell, 

 with their micropyles pointing inwards and upwards ; 

 fruit usually a drupe. 



Species about 200, chiefly tropical. 



MAPPIA. F.B.I. 39 XV. 



Mappia f oetida Miers ; F.B.I, (including M. ovata) i 589, 

 XV 2 & 3 ; Stinking May tree. A tree with dark foliage 

 and small extraordinarily evil smelling flowers. Branches 

 angular with large leaf-scars. Leaves 5 by 3 to 12 by 7 

 inches on the same branch, alternate, shortly petioled, 

 broadly ovate or obovate, abruptly acuminate, entire, 



