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Fruit compressed, oblique, broadly winged. 



Styles 3 4. Smodingium". 



Calyx in fruit enlarged and coloured 5. Loxostylis. 



Tribe 2. Spondie^. Ovary 2-5-celled ; ovules 1 in each cell. 



Male flovrer spiked. Stamens 12-15 6. Scleeocarta. 



Male flower panicled. Stamens 8-9 7. Haepephyllum. 



Tribe 1. ANACARDiEiE. (G-en. 1-4.) 



1. ODIN A, Eoxb. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 4-5-lobed, persistent, the 

 lobes imbricate. Petals 4-5, patent or reflexed. Disk annular, 

 4-5 crenate. — Male : Stamens 8-10, under the disk. Barren 

 ovary 4-5-parted. — Female : Ovary sessile, free, oblont^, 1- 

 celled ; styles 8-4. Drupe compressed, oblong- renilbrm, 

 crowned with the persistent styles. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 503. 



Large trees, Indian and African. Leaves usually pinnate ; leaflets oppo- 

 site, subsessile, entire, pale beneath. Racemes terminal, tufted. Flowers 

 small. — 2 South African species, both from Magalisberg. 



2. RHUS, Linn. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx small, 5-6-parted, per- 

 sistent. Petals 5-6, oblong or ovate, spreading. Stamens 

 5-6. Ovary subglobose, 1-celled (abortive in the male flower); 

 styles 3, free or connate. Drupe nearly dry or slightly fleshy, 

 1-celled, containing a bony, 1-seeded nucleus. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 

 504. 



A large and varied cosmopolitan genus. The leaves in the Cape species 

 are either 3-foliate or simple. Flowers panicled, small, green. — Perhaps 60 

 (several undescribed newly-discovered at Natal) South African species, 

 dispersed. 



3. BOTRYCERAS, Willd. 



Flowers dioecious. — Male: Calyx 4-5-cleft nearly to the 

 base, spreading ; lobes oblong, imbricate. Petals 4-5, lanceo- 

 late, reflexed. Stamens 4-5, around the base of the fleshy, 

 annular disk. Ovary 0. — Female: Calyx and corolla per- 

 sistent, as in the male, but the petals are oblong, obtuse. 

 Ovary ovate, compressed, 1-celled; style 1, thick, oblique; 

 stigmas 3, bristly. Fruit with a membranous pericarp, com- 

 pressed, winged at the margin, rugose, tipped with the persis- 

 tent style. 



B. laurinum, Willd., the only species, is a large, glabrous and resinous 

 shrub, with simple, elliptic-oblong, penninerved, serrate leaves. 



4. SMODINGIUM, E. Mey. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5, 

 oblong, deciduous. Stamens 5 ; filaments subulate. Ovary 

 free, sessile, 1-celled; styles 3. Fruit compressed, the margin 



