262 FLORA Off MADRAS. [Spondias. 



by 4 in., but small and with smaller leaflets in poor localities. 

 The leaflets have parallel nerves meeting in an iiitra- 

 marginal nerve. The fruit is eaten. Bark smooth, grey ; 

 wood light grey, useless. Yern. Hind. Amra ; Ur. Ambota; 

 Mar. Amb. ; Tel. Aravi mamadi ; Tarn. Kat maa, Mam 

 pulicchi ; Mai. Ambalam. 



S. acmniiiata, Roxb., seems to be only a small-leaved form of 

 the above. 



6. Solenocarpus, W. & A. 



A tree, Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, crowded towards the 

 ends of the branches ; leaflets opposite or subopposite, crenulate. 

 Flowers small, white, hermaphrodite, in branched panicles ter- 

 uiinal on old branches. Calyx minute, 5-lobed, imbricate, decid- 

 uous, Petals 5, ovate, valvate, recurved. Disk annular, creiiately 

 lobed, surrounding the base of the ovary. Stamens 10, inserted 

 at the base of the disk; filaments slender; anthers oblong. 

 Ovary free, sessile, 1 -celled ; style thick, furrowed ; stigma 

 oblique, truncate ; ovule 1, pendulous from one side near the 

 apex of the cell. Fruit a small obliquely oblong, truncate, com- 

 pressed drupe ; pericarp cellular, oily ; stone bony. Seed linear, 

 compressed ; cotyledons linear, plano-convex ; radicle very short, 

 superior. 



SOLENOCARPUS INDICA, W. & A. 171 ; F. B. I. ii. 27 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. t. 233. 



W. Ghats, from Coorg to the Aiiamalais and Hills of Travan- 

 core and Tinnevelly, up to 2,500 ft., not common. 

 A tree with about 5-7 pairs of oblong acuminate leaflets up 

 to 4 in. long and 1 in. wide with an intramarginal nerve, 

 white small flowers in conspicuous masses and small fruit. 



7. Odina, Eoxb. 



Deciduous trees with stout soft branches. Leaves alternate, 

 imparipinnate, clustered at the ends of the branchlets ; leaflets 

 opposite, entire; stipules 0. Flowers small, monoecious or 

 dioecious, fascicled, shortly pedicelled, in simple or panicled, 

 terminal, fascicled, racemes. Calyx 4-lobed, persistent; lobes 

 rounded, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Disk annular, 8-lobed. 

 Stamens 8, inserted below the disk ; filaments in $ unequal, 

 subulate, the anthers ovate or sagittate, in $ very short and 



