ANACARDIACE.E 379 



Schinus terebinthifolius, Eaddi. 



Fruit a drupe, globose, glabrous, bright scarlet when mature, 

 tipped with the persistent base of the terminal style ; epicarp thin, 

 crustaceous ; mesocarp pulpy ; endocarp with oil receptacles as in 

 S. Molle. 



Seed conforming to the interior of the endocarp, transverse to 

 the fruit, reniform, with the sinus lateral, laterally compressed 

 and somewhat undulated, glabrous, pale brown ; testa thin, 

 membranous ; funicle suspending the seed at one end ; hilum 

 and micropyle contiguous ; raphe ventral as well as the chalaza, 

 both lying in the sinus, deeper brown than the rest of the 

 testa. 



Endosperm as in S. Molle but much thicker at the backs of the 

 cotyledons. 



Embryo curved, large in proportion to the size of the seed, 

 greenish-yellow, lying in the broadest plane of the seed, transversely 

 to the axis of the fruit ; cotyledons oblong or ovate- oblong, slightly 

 cordate at the base, otherwise entire, accumbent, trinerved at the 

 base, flat and closely applied face to face, often slightly twisted, 

 lying with their edges to the base of the fruit and their lower edges 

 obliquely to the lateral placenta ; 

 radicle terete, rather elongated, de- 

 scending and parallel with the funicle 

 and with its tip close to the micropyle. 



Seedling (fig. 260). 



Cotyledons ovate-oblong, subfal- 

 cate, very similar to those of S. Molle. 



Stem as in S. Molle. 



Leaves. Nos. 1 and 2. Opposite, 

 simple, ovate, acute, acutely serrate, 

 alternately penninerved with the FlG - 



nerves running straight into the ^r 

 teeth. 



No. 3. Alternate, trifoliolate ; terminal leaflet much the largest, 

 lanceolate, acute, acutely serrate ; lateral ones similar, much 

 smaller. 



Odina Wodier, Boxb. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, pale green, 2'5-3'5 cm. long. 



Cotyledons lanceolate, falcate, obtuse, petiolate, entire, with a 



wide very shallow sinus on one side ; lamina trinerved from base 



