SABIACE^. 



Conspectus of genera. 

 MklioSMA. Ovary 2-3 celled, usually not lobed, the style erect. 



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MELIOSMAi Only species. .ilf. simplici/olia. 



ANAGARDIACE^. 

 Conspectus of genera. 



* Ovary one celled. 



. >C Leaves simple. 



O Petals or sepals or tbe calyx-tube remaining unchanged in fruit. Fniit superior. 

 MANOrFEBA. Calyx 4-5 parted. Petals as many, the nerve usually thickened. Stamens 1-5 antheriferous. Style filiform. 



Leaves alternate. 

 BoPBA. Calyx 3-to 5-parted, valvate. Stamens 3-8, all hearing anthers. Style short. Leaves opposite. 

 GiTJTA. Calyx spathaceous. Stamens inserted on the stalk-like torus. Style filiform. 



BrcHAlTANlA. Calyx 3-to 5-toothed. Stamens 10. Carpels 5 or 6, only a single of them fertile. Styles short. 

 00 Petals and sepals unchanged, but the calyx-tube or its base much enlarged. 

 + Fruit superior. 

 Anacaeditjm. Petals imbricate. Stamens 8 10, all or few bearing anthers. Torus stalk-like. Style filiform. Nut seated 



on tbe enlarged succulent base of calyx. 

 Skmecaepus. Petals imbricate or valvate. Stamens 5. Disk annular, rather broad. Styles 3. Nut seated on the 

 enlarged succulent base of calyx. 



+t Fruit inferior. 

 DEnrrcABPrs. Petals imbricate. Stamens 5. Style 1, with a capitate stigma. 

 HOLIGABHA. Petals valvate. Stamens 5. Styles 3. Disk annular or obsolete. 



000 Petals or sepals much enlarging after flowering and often wing-like and leafy. Calyx 

 tube not or very little changed. 

 SwnrroinA. Sepals 5, unchanged. Petals enlarging, wing-like in fruit. Stamens 5. Drupe sessile. 

 Mklanobehoea. Sepals 5, unchanged. Petals much enlarging, wing-like in fruit. Stamens numerous. Drupes 

 stalketl. 



XX Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate (rarely simple). 



O Calyx after flowering much enlarged, the lobes becoming wing-like. 

 Paeishia- Petals 4. Stamens 4. Style 3-c'eft at apex. 



OO Calyx remaining unchanged. 

 Rhtts. ^Petals 4 to 6, imbricate. Stamens 4-10. Ovule suspended from a free erect basilar funicle. 

 Odina. Petals 4-5, imbricate. Styles in female flowers 3-4, in the males the ovary 4-5-parted. Ovule pendulous near 

 the summit of the cavity. 



Ovary 2-5-celled. Ovules pendulous. Leaves pinnate. 

 Spondias. Flowers polygamous. Stamens 8-10. Styles 4 or 5, free at the summit. 

 Deacontomelum. Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens 10. Styles 5, thick, connate at summit and resembling ovaries. 



MANGIFERA. r 



* Petals and stamens free, the former inserted at the base of the cushion or cup-shaped 



disk. 

 X Pedicels 3 to 6 lin. long, very slender. 



Panicles and calyx puberulous or almost glabrous, the former usually very slender ; net-veina- 



tion of leaves lax and thin, M, longipes. 



X X Pedicels very short and thick. Fertile stamen 1. 



Panicles and calyx all glabrous, petals white, o. 3 lin. long ; disk cupular ; drupes 2-3 in. long, 

 acuminate ; net-veination very lax and thin, M. sylvatica. 



Panicles and calyx more or less puberulous ; petals with yellowish red stripes, hardly 

 2 lin. long ; disk fleshy, 5-lobed ; drupes 3-4 in. long, obtuse, net-veination lax and 

 thin, M. Indica. 



Panicles and calyx densely pubescent ; petals hardly 2 lin. long, yellowish ; disk fleshy, 5-lobed ; 

 drupes 1-2 in. long, blunt ; net-veination on both sides strongly prominent, minute 

 and elegant, M. caloneura. 



** Petals and stamens connate tcith the base of the stalk-like torus, or rarely the latter 

 wanting. 



Leaves very coriaceous and glossy, almost polished beneath M.foetida. 



BOUEA. 



Panicles small, sessile or nearly so, quite glabrous ; petals i lin. long, B. oppositifolia. 



Panicles large, long-peduncled, puberulous ; petals aline long or longer, B. Burmanica. 



QLUTA. 



Panicles and leaf buds together with the calyx puberulous ; petioles thick, often 



short, O. Eenghas. 



All parts quite glabrous ; petioles slender, , Q, elegans. 



