70 TEREBINTHACE.E. [RhuS. 



very short petiolules or almost sessile, glabrous above or scarcely tomentose 

 on the principal veins, very white underneath, with a short close cotton. 

 Panicle terminal, pyramidal, about 4 in. long, sessile above the last leaves, 

 very much branched and downy. Petals white, more conspicuous than in the 

 last species. Drupes covered with a reddish down. 



In woods of the Happy Valley and Mount Gough, but sparingly, Cham'pion, Hance, See- 

 mann. Fortune, Wilford. Not known out of the island. 



There are in Wriglifs collection two specimens, the one with male buds, the other with 

 an unripe fruit, of a dioecious shrub or tree, apparently allied to Spondias, but quite insuffi- 

 cient for determination. 



The Mango, Mangifera indica, Linn., has been sent in some of the Hongkong collections, 

 but from cultivated trees, without any indication whether it has established itself in a half- 

 wild state. 



2. SABIA, Colebr. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5 (rarely 4), united at the base. Petals 5 

 (rarely 4), opposite the sepals. Stamens of the same number as and opposite 

 to the petals. Hypogynous disk 5-lobed. Ovary 1-or 2-celled, with 2 super- 

 posed ovules in each cell. Styles 1 or 2, cylindrical. Drupes containing a 

 single reniform seed. Eadicle inferior. Cotyledons ovate, incurved. — 

 Climbers. Plowers axillary, solitary, cymose or paniculate. 



A small Asiatic genus, forming, with Meliosma and Phoxanthus, a small tribe, differing 

 from other Terehmthace^e chiefly in the opposition of the sepals, petals, and stamens. 



1. S, limoniacea. Wall.; Hook., and Tlioms.M. Ind. i. 210. A glabrous 

 climber. Leaves from oblong to lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long, entire, coriaceous. 

 Panicles loosely racemiform or shortly branched, longer or shorter than the 

 leaves, either leafless or bearing a few small leaves. Petals broadly oval, ob- 

 tuse. Stamens not longer than the petals. Drupes rounded, flattened. — 

 Androglossura reticulatum, Benth. in Kew Journ. Pot. iv. 41. 



In ravines of Victoria Peak, Champion, Wilford. In eastern India, from Chittagong 

 to Khasia and Sikkim. By some mistake this plant has been referred by Seemann to the 

 S. faniculata, Edg., a very different species both in inflorescence and flowers. 



Ordee XXXV. CONNARACE^. 



Flowers regular. Sepals 5, persistent, ft-ee or united at the base, imbri- 

 cate or rarely valvate. Petals 5, free, hypogynous, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 10, hypogynous, usually united in a ring at the base. Ovary of 5 

 distinct carpels, either all perfect, or 1 perfect and 4 slender abortive ones, or 

 rarely reduced to 2 or 1 carpel. Styles entire, continuous from the inner 

 edge of the carpels, with single terminal stigmas. Ovules 2 in each carpel, 

 collateral and erect. Ripe carpels opening along the inner edge. Seed erect, 

 solitary, often enclosed in an arillus. Albumen either none or fleshy. Ea- 

 dicle superior. Cotyledons fleshy w^here there is no albumen, thin in the al- 

 buminous seeds. — Trees or shrubs, without resinous juices. Leaves alternate, 

 pinnate, without stipules. Flowers rather small, in panicles or racemes, usu- 

 ally clustered in the axils of the leaves. 



A small Order, almost entirely tropical, common to the New and the Old World. 



