-Meliosma.) ANACARDIACEA. "B49 
formed, 2-fid, with empty cells, together forming a hood over the 
_ pistil. Ovary sessile, 2-, rarely 3-locular, contracted into a simple 
or partible style; stigma simple ; ovules 2in each loculus. Frwit 
& small, obliquely subglobose drupe ; stone crustaceous, 1-celled, 
with usually a basilar. projection over which the seed is curved. 
seed globose ; testa membranous ; albumen 0; embryo curved. 
Leaves simple .. simplicifolia 
2 Leaves pinnately compound pinnata 
390. MeLIosMA sIMPLIcIFOLIA Bl; F. B. I. ii. 5. Millingtonia 
simplicifolia F. I. i. 103 
ittagong ; N. Bengal. 
A tall tree. Vernac. Dant-rangi. 
_ 1 Metrosma prynata Planch.; F. B. I. ii, 6. Millingtonia 
Pinnata F. T. i. 104. 
Chittagong. 
Atree. Vernac. Bativa. 
Order XLIII. ANACARDIACEZ. 
Smnate in a 8-5-partite calyx with imbricate segments, sometimes 
Paes rarely spathaceous. Petals usually 3-5, rarely 0, 
: ate with sepals, free, imbricate or valvate, sometimes 
3 acerescent, Stamens as many as petals, rarely more; filaments 
te subulate, inserted below base of, rarely on, the disk ; anthers 
C, ey si xed or versatile; dehiscence longitudinal, introrse. 
“pels solitary or 2, connate but one early suppressed, less often 
half-inferior : 
