Jfc/iH.y.] ANACARDIACEAE. 263 



small, the anthers small, sterile. Ovary in abortive, styles 4; 

 in J ovoid or snbglobose, 4- but rarely more than 1-celled ; 

 styles 4, distant, from the 4 corners of the top of the ovary, erect ; 

 stigmas small, peltate ; ovules pendulous from near the top of the 

 cell. Fruit a small compressed ovoid or obovoid thinly fleshy 

 drupe ; stone hard, 1 cell only seed-bearing, irregularly pitted 

 outside. Seed compressed, on a fimicle ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex, curved ; radicle thick, 

 superior. 



ODINA WODIER, Ruxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 29 ; W. & A. 171 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. 60 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 123. 



Deciduous forests in most Districts, often planted in avenues, 

 In good soil a large tree, in poor soils often small and 

 stunted, and in some localities as on the East Coast almost 

 evergreen. Leaflets 3-4 pairs, long-acuminate. Bark thick, 

 grey, smooth ; wood reddish-brown, fairly good but not much 

 used. The copious gum seems rarely to be collected in S. 

 India. Yerii. Hind. Thmgan ; Ur. Moi ; Tel. Gumpini ; 

 Tarn. Wodier, Uthi ; Kan. Godda ; Mai. Kalasan. 



8. Rhus, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, often with acrid juice. Leaves alternate, 

 simple 3-foliolate or imparipiniiate, the leaflets entire or serrate. 

 Flowers small, polygamous, in terminal or axillary panicles. 

 Calyx small, 5-partite, the lobes nearly equal, persistent, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 5, spreading, imbricate. Disk cupular, lobed. 

 Stamens 5, inserted below the disk, in flowers as long as or 

 longer than the petals, in $ flowers minute ; filaments subulate ; 

 anthers short. Ovary sessile, ovoid or globose, 1-celled ; styles 3, 

 free or connate ; stigmas simple or capitate ; ovule pendulous 

 from a basal fuiiicle. Fruit a small, dry, compressed drupe ; 

 stone coriaceous, crustaceous or bony. Seed pendulous from the 

 funicle ; testa membranous ; albumen ; embryo curved, with 

 flattish cotyledons ; radicle short, superior. 



Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate, the lateral smaller than the 



terminal ; 



Thorny shrub ; leaflets prominently sinuate-toothed, the end ones 



1-1.5 in. long, the side ones '5-1 in. long 1. mysorensis. 



Small unarmed tree ; leaflets entire or slightly undulate, the end 

 one 3-5 in. long, the side ones 1-3 in. long 2. paniculata. 



