31. ANACARDIACE^J. [ 1. Odin a. 



sometimes dioecious, usually panioled. Calyx of 3-5 sepals 

 or lobes Petals as many as the calyx lobes, imbricate or 

 sub-valvate. Disc rarely absent. St. normally twice as 

 many as the petals, but usually fewer, sometimes only 1 per- 

 fect, inserted under or on the margin of the disc. Ovary 

 superior, of i-more, rarely of 2-5, united or (in Buchanania) 

 free carpels. Carpels with 1 ovule, either pendulous from 

 the axis or from an ascending basal funicle. Fruit usually 

 a 1-seeded drupe, rarely drupe with a 1-5-celled stone 

 (Spondias), exalbuminous. Embryo straight or curved, 

 cotyledons plano-convex, 



Besin passages in the bark often filled with a caustic juice. 

 A. Carpels solitary or 3-4 united in a 1-celled ovary or 

 if 2-celled, with one cell early suppressed. 

 L Ovule pendulous from the top of the cell or from 

 above the middle. 



L. pinnate. Fls. before leafing, fascicled on numer- 

 ous simple or branched racemes. Styles 3 -4, 



rarely 6 1. Odina. 



L. simple. St. 5. Drupe on a swollen receptacle. 



Styles 3 . . . . . . . 2. Bemecarpus. 



II. Ovule pendulous from a basal funicle. L. simple. 



St. 5-1. Style lateral. The Mango . . , 3. Mangifera. 



B. Carpels 5 distinct, one only perfect. L. simple. 



St. 10. Drupe small, not on a swollen receptacle . 4. Buchanania. 



C. Ovary 2-5-celled. L. pinnate. 



Fls. before leafing white in a large terminal 

 panicle . 5. Spondias. 



1. Odina, Roxb. 



1. 0. Wodier, Roxb. Nanam, K. ; Doka, 8. ; (Dhauuk, 

 doka, also used by the Tantis and other Hindu castes); Genjan, 

 Kiiarw. ; Farmi, Ghatw. ; Jhingan, H. ; Jial, Beng. 



A small or large tree with stout soft branchlets, odd-pin- 

 nate glabrescent loaves clustered at the ends of the branchlets 

 with 3-4 pairs of leaflets. Small yellowisb-green dioecious 

 flowers fascicled on the rachis of numerous racemes towards 



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