TrichoscypJia.'] xlv. anacardiace.t. (oliveu). 445 



the branches of short, sprending, terminal panicles of 4-0 in. Cnlvx 4.fid 

 with ovate sej^ments. Petals ovate, obtuse, twiec as long ns lh*e calyx. 

 Stamens equalling the petals, inserted round a hirsute disk!' Young fruits 

 silky with ferruginous hairs, subsessile or on very short, pubescent, Mout 

 pedicels. 



Upper Guinea. River Muni, W. tropical Afiira, Mann ! 



Specimens, with male flowers only, of possibly a third spccit-s of Triclv-' -' ' •■•■ --i the 

 Kew herbarium from Fernando Po (Mann). The flowers arc stssile or .tin- 



rulate, in loosely branched panicles as in T. lucens, but the leaflets, in tr\- »c of 



T. Mannii, are only about 5 to each leaf. 



7. ODINA, Roxb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gtii. IM. i. 423. 



Plowers polygamous. Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite; segments ovate or 

 roundish. Petals as many, imbricate. Disk small, annular or saucer-shaped. 

 Male fl. : Stamens 8 or 10, inserted under the margin of the disk ; anthers 

 versatile or subversatile. Rudiment of ovary usually 4-fi(l. Fertile fl. • 

 Anthers smaller, often effete (?). Ovary sessile, free, glabrous or hairv, 1- 

 celled. Styles 4 or 3, short, distinct, rather stout ; stigmas terminal, Ovule 

 solitary, pendulous. Drupe oblong or ellipsoidal, conii)ressed. " Embn,o 

 with flat fleshy cotyledons."— Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, drei<luous, 

 unequally pinnate, usually collected at the extremities or in Interal tufts from 

 nodes of a previous year; leaflets opposite, entire. Flowers racemose, often 

 fasciculate, shortly pedicellate or subsessile. 



A small genus of tropical Africa and Asia. One or two of the following; are vcrj- 1. early 

 allied to Indian species and may prove, with additional material, to be identical. NVc have 

 fragmentary specimens of apparently undcscribcd species of Odina in the Kew hi rbarium 

 from various intertropical African localities, but these scarcely deserve to be described. 

 Two distinct species grow at the Cape. 



Leaves i-H ft. 



Leafless at time of flowering. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, glabresicent, 



subsessile 1. 0. Schimpfn. 



Leaves present at time of flowering. 

 • Leaves early glabrous. 



Leaflets subsessile 2. 0. fruticosa. 



Leaflets distinctly petiolulate 3. 0. antia. 



Leaves pubescent or tomentose at least beneath. 



Hairs not stellate. Spikes fascicled on previous wood . . . 4. 0. liarlrri. 

 Tomentura stellate, especially beneath. Spikes 1 or 2, axillary 5. 0. veluttna. 

 Leaves 1-6 in. 



Leaflets obovate-cuneate. Ovary glabrous G. 0. nhorata. 



Leaflets elliptical. Ovary hirsute 1.0. humtltt. 



1. O. Schimperiy Hochst. ; Jiich. Fl. Ahysi. i. 140. Iknnehes stout, 

 rugose, leafless, apparently, at time of flowering. Lenves \-\ ft. with a 

 scattered stellate pubescence at first above, and early deciduous tomentum 

 beneath, O-ll-foliolate ; leaflets submembranous, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to a distinct, obtuse, narrow acumen, obli(juely rounded at the base, sub- 

 sessile or sessile. Racemes simple, clustered at the tomentose extremities 

 of the leafless branches, at length (in ripe fruit) lateral by the elongation of 

 the terminal shoot ; racemes of sterile flowers 4 G in. long, those bearing 



