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The youngest branches and parts covered with 

 stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate,, 

 leaflets petioled, oblong-ovate, acuminate, entire, gla- 

 brous. 



Flowers in slender drooping spikes of small cymes, 

 unisexual, sepals, petals and stamens in four's, ovary 

 one-celled. Fruit a kidney-shaped drupe, red-coloured,, 

 containing one stone and one seed. 



CHARACTERS OF THE ANACARDIACE^) 



These three genera are good examples of the family 

 ANACARDIACE^E. 



They are trees with resinous or acrid juice, alter- 

 nate leathery, generally simple, exstipulate leaves. The 

 flowers are small, regular, unisexual or bisexual or 

 a mixture of these (polygamous). Round the ovary 

 is a more or less cup-shaped glandular disc, and 

 round this again stamens equal in number to the 

 petals. The fruit is usually a drupe. 



Another well-known species is 



SPONDIAS MANGIFERA, Willd., a deciduous tree with 

 smooth grey bark, pinnately compound leaves, and 

 large panicles of flowers. Leaflets elliptic-oblong,, 

 acuminate, entire. Fruit a drupe with yellow smooth 

 skin (epicarp), rough-tasting flesh, and a stone with 

 more than one cell but usually only one embryo, and 

 well known as the Amra or Hog-plum. 



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The flowers of ERYTHRINA and CROTALARIA have 

 already been described in chapter xvii. If these are 



