448 XLV. ANACARDiACEiE (oliver). [Spondios. 



convex cotyledons. — Trees. Leaves alternate, often somewhat crowded at 

 the extremities, unequally pinnate; leaflets opposite or subopposite, entire. 

 Flowers in terminal spreading panicles. 



A small tropical genus of which two or three species are cultivated for the sake of their 

 fruit (the Hog Plunj). 



riowers 2-3 lines diam. Petals valvate *1. S. lutea. 



Flowers 1 line diam. Petals imbricate 2. 5. microcnrpa. 



*1. S. lutea, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 75. A large tree, wholly glabrous 

 or the leaves puberulous on rachis and nervation. Leaves f- 1^ ft., 7-9-19- 

 foliolate, membranous or subcoriaceous, wholly glabrous or the rachis and 

 nervation puberulous ; leaflets opposite or subopposite, obliquely ovate-lan- 

 ceolate or -oblong, obtusely pointed or acuminate, rounded at the base on 

 the upper margin, often obscurely undulate-crenate, more or less distinctly 

 reticulate beneath with a marginal vein, petiolulate, 2-3^ in. long, 1-1|- in. 

 broad ; petiolules 1-3 lines. Flowers small, in terminal, spreading, rather 

 lax, many-flow^ered panicles equalling or exceeding the leaves ; pedicels 1-3 

 lines, glabrous or puberidous. Calyx minute, 5 -toothed. Petals oval, at 

 length widely spreading or recurved, valvate in bud. Filaments filiform, 

 inserted round a conspicuous plicate or lobed disk. Ovary glabrous, 5- 

 celled. Drupe nearly as large as a plum, yellow or orange. — S. aurantiaca, 

 Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 225 (ex descr.). S. ? dubia, llich. in Fl. Seneg. 

 i. 153. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieber ! near Sierra Leone, Bi-. Kirk ! Niger, Barter ! Grand 

 Bassa, T. Vogel I Ambas Bay, Mann ! Annabon, Burton ! 



Indigenous in the AY. Indies and tropical America. The frnit is eaten. 



2. S. microcarpa, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. i. 151. t. 40. A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves 5-13-foliolate, 9-18 in. long; leaflets rather coriaceous, alternate or 

 subopposite, ovate-oblong or the terminal elliptical, lateral very oblique, acu- 

 minate, upper margin at the base rounded, glabrous, reticulate, entire, dis- 

 tinctly petiolulate, 3-6 in. long, l-|-3 in. broad ; petiolules }-\ in. Male 

 flowers 4-5-merous, very small, about 1 line in diam., wdiitish, usually sub- 

 sessile, in laxly branching panicles of -^1 ft. or more from the axils of the 

 upper leaves. Calyx-lobes ovate. Petals distinctly imbricate. Stamens 8 

 or 10, around a crenate disk. Eudiment of ovary 4-fid. -Drupe fleshy, 

 ovoid, the size of a grape, yellow, with a 1-4-celled putameu.— (? ^. Zanzee, 

 Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 79.) 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet ! 



This plant having been referred to Tapiria by M. Planchon in the Kew herbarium, this 

 genus is stated to be African in the ' Genera Plantarum ' of Messrs. Bentham and Hooker, but 

 in a few young fruits attached to the Kew specimens the ovary is certainly not 1-celled and 

 consequently must be referred to Spondiece, although it does not appear to be a good 

 Spondias. 



S. Oghigee and S. Zanzee, Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 79, I cannot quite satisfactorily determine. 

 They are most imperfectly described and the specimens are insufficient or conflicting. S. 

 Oghigee, collected at Sierra Leone by Don, iu the herbarium of- the British Museum, 

 is evidently an Odina, as determined by Dr. Hooker (Fl. Nigrit. 286). I have quoted it 

 as a doubtful synonym of O. acida. Of S. Zanzee there is in the same collection a single 



