Spond/"s. AtiACARDIACEAE. 26i 



Calyx gamosepalous, spathaceous. splitting irregularly, deciduous. 

 Petals 4-6, inserted on the disk and adiiate with it below, imbri- 

 cate, spreading in flower. Disk usually elongate, cylindric; 

 Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them ; fila- 

 ments capillary. Ovary sessile on the disk or stipitate, oblique, 

 ]>celled ; style lateral, filiform ; stigma simple ; ovule 1, pendu- 

 lous from a basal funicle. Fruit dry. stalked, more or less 

 globose, sometimes furrowed ; pericarp thick. Seed conform to 

 the pericarp ; testa adherent to the pericarp ; albumen. ; coty- 

 ledons large, thick, plano-convex ; radicle short, obtuse, incurved. 

 GLUTA TRAVANCORICA, Bedd. Fl. t. 60; F. B. I. ii. 22. 



W. Ghats, evergreen forests of South Travaiicore and Tiiine- 

 velly up to 3,500 ft. 



A very large tree reaching 120 ft. in height and 5 ft. ift diani. 

 of bole, with sputlmlate leaves up to 6 in. long and cream-- 

 coloured flowers. The bark is smooth, pinkish-grey, and the 1 

 heartwood dark red, mottled with orange and black streaks, 

 valuable for furniture and house-fittings. Vern. Tarn. 

 Shencurani ; Mai. Thodappei. 



5. Spondias, Linn. 



Deciduous glabrous trees. Leaves usually crowded at the ends 

 of the branches, alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets subopposite, 

 usually caudate-acuminate ; stipules 0. Flowers small, poly- 

 gamous, in terminal spreading panicles. Calyx small, 4-5-lobed, 

 deciduous, lobes imbricate. Petals 4-5, spreading, valvate. Dish 

 thick, annular, 8-10-crenated. Stamens 8-10, inserted below 

 the disk, filaments slender. Ovary shortly ovoid or subglobose, 

 4-5-celled, immersed in the disk ; styles 4-5, conniving above ; 

 stigmas spreading ; ovule 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a 

 fleshy drupe. with woody endocarp surrounded by longitudinal 

 interwoven fibres, 1-5-seeded. Seeds pendulous, oblong; testa 

 membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons elongate, plano-convex ; 

 radicle short, superior. 



SPONDIAS MANGIFERA, Willd. ; F. B. I. ii. 42 ; W. & A. 173; 

 Wt. 111. t. 76 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 169. 



Deciduous forests in almost all Districts, up to about 



2,000 ft., but not very common; frequently planted. The 



Indian Hog-plum. 



A large ti*ee in good soil with large leaflets, sometimes 9 in. 



