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clavate ; stigma obliquely truncate. Drupe siiiall, obli(]uely obi ^n•\^, 

 truncate, compressed ; pericarp cellular, full ot" oil ; stone bony. 8eed 

 linear, compressed ; cotyledons linear, plano-convex ; radicle very short, 

 thick, superior. — Distrib. Peninsular India ; species 1. 



1. Solenocarpus indicay Wvjht >^ Am. Prodr. (183-1) p. 171. A 

 tree. Leaves imparipinnate ; rhachis slender, angled ; leaflets sessile 

 (except the terminal one, which has a petiolule about ^ in. long), 2-3k 

 by 4-1 1 in., oblong, acuminate, slightly crenate, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, pale beneath, base oblique, the u])per side of the leaflet shorter 

 than the lower and suddenly contracted at the base ; main nerves 8-10 

 pairs, faint. Flowers wliite, in much-branched panicles, the branches 

 puberulous, angled ; pedicels solitary or 2-3 together, short. Calyx- 

 lobes scarcely J^ in. long, deltoid. Petals oblong-lanceolate, about gin. 

 long and about ^ in. broad. Drupes I in. long, pedicelled. ¥\. H. T. 

 V. 2, p. 27 ; Bed'd. Flor. Hylvat. t. 233 ; Engler, in DC. Monogr. Phan. 

 V. 4, p. 250 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 62. — Flowers : Jan. 



Rare in the Bombay Presidency. Dahell in Herb. Kevv. ■without locality ! Konkan : 

 Stocks'. KvN \R\ : in tlie evergreen forests of the Yellapur taluiia in N. Kanara, rare, 

 Talbot. — Distrib. As the genus. 



6. ODINA, Eoxb. 



Trees with stout soft braucbes. Leaves few at the ends of the 

 branches, alternate, usually imparipinnate, deciduous ; leaflets opposite, 

 quite entire. Flowers small, monoecious or dioecious, fascicled, shortly 

 pedicelled, in simple and panicled terminal fascicled racemes. Calyx 

 4-5-lobed, persistent ; lobes rounded, imbricate. Disk annular, crenate. 

 Male flowers : Stamens 8-10 inserted below the disk. Ovary 4-5- 

 partite. Female flowers : Ovary sessile, oblong, 1-celled ; ovule 1 in 

 each cell, pendulous from near its apex by a long funicle, often abortive 

 in 3 of the cells ; styles 3-4, stout ; stigmas simple or capitellate. 

 Drupe small, compressed, oblong, subreniform, crowned by tlie distant 

 styles ; stone hard. Seed compressed ; embryo curved ; cotyledons flat, 

 fleshy ; radicle superior. — Distrib. Africa and Tropical Asia ; species 

 about 13. 



1. Odina Woodier, Roxh. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 29; Odina 

 Wodier, Ito.vb. Fl. Lid. v. 2 (1832) p. 293. A large tree 40-50 ft. 

 high ; trunk thick ; bark ash-colored, smooth, exfoliating ; yoiing parts 

 more or less stellately puberulous. Leaves crowded about the ends of 

 the branches, 10-18 in. long; leaflets membranous, green above, brown 

 beneath (when dry), 3-5 pairs and an odd one, 3-6 by 1-2 in., ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, glabrous, shining, tinged with pink when young, 

 base acute or rounded, often oblique ; main nerves 0-8 pairs ; petiolules 

 of the lateral leaflets 0-^ in. long, those of the terminal leaflets much 

 longer. Flowers purplish, appearing when the tree is bare of leases, 

 crowded in cymose fascicles, the male racemes con)pound, the female 

 simple ; pedicels very sliort, fulvous-pubescent ; bracts ovate, acute, 

 pubescent outside, ciiiate. Calyx-lobes about -jL in. long, ovate-orbi- 

 cular, ciliate. Petals 4, ovate-oblong, acute, g-^ in. long. Stamens 

 in the male flowers equalling the petals. (jvary in the female 

 ovoid-oblong, in the male rudimentary, 4-lobed. Drupes reniform, 



