42 XLVI. ANACAKDIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Spondias. 



20. SPONDXAS, Linn. 



Deciduous glabrous trees. Leaves usually crowded at the tips of the 

 "branches, alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets sub-opposite, usually caudate-acumi- 

 nate. Panicles terminal, spreading 1 . Flowers small, polygamous. Calyx small, 

 4-5-fid, deciduous, lobes slightly imbricate. Petals 4-5, spreading, subvalvate. 

 Disk cupular, broad, crenate. Stamens 8-10, inserted beneath the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, free, 4^5-celled ; styles 4-5, conniving ; ovules solitary, pendulous in 

 the cells. Drupe fleshy ; stone hard, thick, 1-5-celled, the cells erect or 

 diverging and opening by canals through the top of the stone. Seeds pendulous, 

 testa membranous ; embryo straight, cotyledons' elongate plano-convex, radicle 

 short superior. DISTKIB. About 8 species all tropical. 



SPONDIAS DTTLCIS, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 452 ; Wall. Cat. 8477 A. ; with 

 crenate longer leaflets, is a South-Sea Island plant, introduced into India, and called 

 ' lloir-plum' and ' Otaheite Apple.' Walt. Cat. 8477 B. from the Calcutta gardens is 

 in part S. lutca, L., the' Hog-plum of the "West Indies. 



SPONDIAS?; Wall. Cat. 8479, from Hurdwar appears to be Rhus succedanea, 

 Linn. 



1. S. mang-ifera, Willd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 75; leaflets 4^6 pairs 2-9 in. 

 oblong acuminate quite entire, panicle 1-2 ft., drupe ovoid, stone rough and 

 fibrous. Eoxb. Fl Ind. ii. 451 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 173 ; Wt. HI. i. 186, t. 76 ; 

 Wall Cat. 8476; Bedd, Fl. Sylv. t. 169; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl 19; 

 G-rah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 42 ; Brand. For. Flor. 128. S. arnara, Lamk. ; Ham. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 531. Evia amara, Comin. ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 234; 

 Thwaites JSnum. 78. Mangifera pinnata, Keen, (iiot Lamk.). Itheede Hort. 

 Mai i. t. 50. 



Throughout India from the INDUS eastwards and southwards to MALACCA, and 

 CEYLON, ascending to 5000 ft. in the HIMALAYA. Wild and cultivated. DISTKIB. 

 Tropical Asia. 



A small tree, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 1-1^ ft. ; petiole slender; leaflets 2-9 

 by 14 in., shortly petiolulate, shining, more or less oblique ; nerves 1030 on each 

 side, horizontal, joined by a strong intra-marginal one. Panicles large, spreading, 

 sparingly branched. Flowers \ in. cliam., scattered, uni- or bisexual. Calyx 5-toothed. 

 Petals oblong, greenish-white. Disk broad, 10-toothed. Filaments short, subulate. 

 Drupe 1^-2 in. long, yellow, smooth; flesh very austere; stone cavernous, usually 

 with 1 (1-3) perfect seed. The ' Amra' of the Hindoos, and the Hog-plum of many 

 Europeans. , 



2. S. acuminata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii. 453 ; leaflets 5-8 pair l-3 in. 

 elliptic caudate-acuminate quite entire or obscurely crenulate, panicle 6-8 in., 

 drupe ovoid-globose, stone smooth fibrous. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI 42 ; W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 173 ; Watt. Cat. 8478. 



WP:STERN PEXINSTJLA ; Malabar, Heyne, Roxburgh ; in the Concan hills, near 

 Kennery caves, Graham', Canara, Ritchie. 



An elegant middling sized tree (Eoxb.), apparently differing from S. mangifera 

 chiefly in the smaller leaves with longer points, the very short panicle, and smooth 

 stone (if I am right in referring a fruiting plant in Wight's Herbarium to this 

 species). In Wallich's Herbarium, specimens of Odina Wodier are mixed with this. 



3. S. axillaris, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 453 ; leaflets 6-8-pairs ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate serrate, drupe ovoid-oblong, stone smooth. 



NJ.PAL, Roxburgh. 



A small Melia-looking tree. Leaves 1 ft. ; petiole slender ; leaflets shortly petio- 



