ANACARDIACE. 355 
A deciduous tree. Beng. Jiyal; Hind. Jhingan; Uriya 
Indramai; Kol, and Santal. Dhoka. 
210. Rhus Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, with often an acrid juice; leaves alternate, 
simple or 1-3-foliolate or pinnate; leaflets entire or serrate ; 
stipules 0. Flowers small, polygamous. Calyx small, 4-6-partite, 
persistent; segments subequal, imbricate. Petals 4-6, equal, 
spreading, imbricate ; disk cupular, lobed. Stamens 4-6, or 10, 
peeked at base of disk, free; filaments subulate; anthers in 
functional female flowers often imperfect. Ovary sessile, ovoid or 
large tree, with odd-pinnate leaves. Vernac. 
211. Tapiria Juss. 
spay shrubs, or trees ; leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets 
tous, subopposite, serrate ; stipules 0. Flowers small, poly- 
idiot, 98 axillary and terminal panicles. Calyx 5-partite; lobes 
rosa os persistent. Petals 5, small, oblong, imbricate ; disk 
Ov : ‘lobed. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disk. 
weary sunk in the disk, 4~5-lobed, with 4-5 styles in ¢ flowers; 
i functional ¢ flowers ovoid, more free, L-locular, with 1 short 
se eous, rugose, Seed oblong ; testa membranous 5 albumen 0; 
ryo straight, cotyledons large. 
- Tapreta niersuta Kurz; F. B. I. ii. 28. 
F. I. ii. 455. 
Chittagong ; Tippera. 
A scandent, usually softly villous shrab. 
Robergia hirsuta 
212. Spondias Linn. 
Pea leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, usually cr 
owded at the ends 
* the branches ; leaflets opposite; stipules 0, Flowers 
snails 
