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1. Apodytes Beddomei, Masfers, in Hoolc.f. Fl. B. I. v. 1 (1875) 

 p. 588. A shrub. Leaves membranous, 3-5 by 1-^-2^ in., turning 

 black in drying, ovate, acute or acuminate, glabrous, base rounded or 

 acute more or less inequilateral ; petioles \-\ in. long. Flowers g in. 

 long, in branched terminal panicles; buds ellipsoid ; pedicels pubescent, 

 the ultimate ones very short. Calyx small, cup-shaped ; lobes obscure, 

 oiliolate. Petals oblong-elliptic, obtuse at the apex. Anthers elongate, 

 linear-oblong. Drupes obliquely ovoid, | in. long, rugose. Apodytes 

 Benthamiana, Var. /3, Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 140. — Flowers : Mar. 



A very i*are plant. I have seen but a single specimen from the Bombay Pi'esi- 

 clency, collected by Mr. Talbot from Dadmuno, N. Kanara ! — Disteib. India (VV. 

 Peninsula). 



7. MAPPIA, Jacq. 



Trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, polygamous, in terminal 

 corymbose cymes, pubescent outside, rarely glabrate. Calyx small, 

 5-toothed. Petals hypogvnous, valvate, villous within. iStameus 5, 

 hypogvnous, alternate with the petals ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed ; 

 connective often mucronate. Disk cup-shaped, surrounding the 

 ovary, sometimes inconspicuous. Ovary 1-eelled ; ovules 2, pendulous ; 

 style short; stigma thickened. Drupe with a slender crustaceous 

 or subwoody putamen. Seed pendulous ; embryo large, in tleshy 

 albumen; cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle superior. — ^Distuib. India; 

 Ceylon, Tropical S. America; species 8-10. 



1. Mappia foetida, Miers, Contrib. v. 1 (1851) p. 64-. A small tree 

 with a shady head ; young branches pale and with wrinkled bark. 

 Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, 3-6 by 1^-3 in., 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, dark green and glabrous above, paler and 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath, reticulately veined, base rounded or 

 acute more or less inequilateral ; petioles 2'-l|- in. long, glabrous or 

 faintly pubescent. Flowers in terminal panicles 2-4 in. long ; pedicels 

 stout, densely pubescent. Calyx small, pubescent externally, 5-toothed; 

 teeth triangular, very acute. Petals yellow, i in. long, linear-oblonc:, 

 acute, densely sericeo-villous on both surfaces, tip inflexed. Stamens 5, 

 a little shorter than the petals and alternate with them ; filaments 

 flattened and dilated below, attached to the edges of the petals at the 

 base ; anthers elliptic-oblong, not apiculate. Disk shallow, cup-shaped, 

 villous within. Ovary ovoid, densely clothed with silky hairs, free, 

 attenuated into a stout slightly conical style. Drupes ellipsoid or some- 

 what obovoid, |-| in. long, pubescent when young, glabrous and purple 

 when ripe. Fi. B. I. v. 1, p. 589 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 141 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 45 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. JVat. v. 11 (1897) p. 270. 

 Mappia ohionga, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 28. — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. Veen. 

 Kdlgur ; Ghdiiera, 



Common along the Ghats, abundant at Mahabloshwar. The flowers are very fetid. 

 KoNKAN : Law], BahcUl; Western Ghats, widely, IVoodrow; Ghats opposite Goa, 

 Ba.hcJl tf- GUnon. Deccan : Mahableshwar, abundant, Cooke .', H. M. Birdwood. 

 S. M. Country : Belgaum, 7?(7c^/e, 1012 ! ; near Belgaum, Cookcl Kanaka: Ghats of 

 N. Kanara, Talbot.— Distri^. India (W. Peninsula). 



8. SARCOSTIGMA, Wight & Arn. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers dioecious, minute, in 

 distant sessile fascicles arranged on elongate interrupted spikes. Calvx 



