Spondias] XLI. ANACARDIACE.E 201 



5. SPONDIAS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 42. 



L. imparipinnate, leaflets nearly opposite. Fl. small, polygamous, in 

 terminal panicles. Calyx small, deciduous, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, spreading. 

 Stamens 8-10, inserted outside beneath the broad crenate disk. Ovary sessile, 

 4-5-celled. Drupe fleshy, stone 1-5-celled, hard, thick, with a tuberculate, 

 fibrous surface. Species 8, tropics of the old and new world. 



1. S. mangifera, Willd. ; Wight 111. t. 76 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 169 ; Kurz 

 F. Fl. i. 322 : Kanjilal Forest Flora 102. The Hog-plum. Vera. Amra, 

 AmboZra, Amarat, H. ; AmbSda, M.; Airibota, Tlriya ; Ambe, Amate, Kan.; 

 Arnbalam, Tam. ; Gw&, Burm. 



A glabrous, deciduous tree, large in tropical, small in Northern India, wood 

 grey, soft, light. Bark smooth, whitish or brownish-grey, aromatic. Leaflets 

 3-5 pair, quite entire, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 3-6 in. long, sec. n. nearly 

 straight, 10-20 pair, joined at the ends by a prominent nerve running along 

 and close to the edge of leaf. Fl. pentamerous, white, nearly sessile, clustered 

 on stout ramifications of a sparingly branched panicle, petals -^ in. long. 

 Drupe 3'ellow when ripe, 1 i in. long, is eaten, but has an astringent acid and 

 turpentine taste. 



Subhimalayan tract ami outer valleys to 3,000 ft., from the Chenab eastwards. Salt- 

 range in tin- Punjab. Deciduous forests of Burma and the Western Peninsula. Fl. 

 February-May. One of the first trees to shed its leaves and one of the last to renew 

 them, often not until the rains have set in. In Ceylon, where it is common in the 

 moist low country it is bare of leaves for a short time at the end of the dry weather, 

 \'>uiiL r foli.'iir'' in April beautiful orange-pink, Trimen Handb. Ceylon i., 327. Deer 

 eat the fruit gi-eedily and heaps of the stones are frequently found in the forests 

 where this tree grows. Indian Archipelago, Hongkong. 2. S. acrrminata, Eoxb. 

 Konkan Hills, North Kanara, Malabar. A middle-sized fast-growing tree, leaflets 5-8 

 pair, remotely crenulate, long-acuminate, stone believed to be smooth. 



3. S. axillaris, Roxb. ; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix. t. 25. Vern. Labshi, Xep. 



A tall evergreen tree. Bark brown or reddish, peeling off in long flakes, 

 wood dark pink, red on exposure, soft but durable. Leaflets 6-8 pair, opposite 

 or nearly so, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, in old trees entire, in young trees 

 serrate. 3-5 in., petiolule \ in. long. Fl. polygamous, pentamerous, the male 

 in axillary panicles, stamens 10, disk annular lU-lobed, the fertile (bi- 

 sexual i solitary or 2 (sometimes 3) on axillary peduncles, \ in. across, ovary 

 5-celled. styles 5, short, erect. Drupes ovoid, 1 -l\ in. long, yellow when ripe, 

 edible, stone 5-celled. 



Sikkim, Bhutan L-4,500 ft. Kacbin hills. This is Cedrela sp. Gamble List 17, and 

 is probably identical with Poupartia Fordii, rlemsley, Hook. [c. PI. t. 2,557, a tree in 

 the Happy Valley ,,f Hongkong. 



(I. DRACONTOMELUM, Blume; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 43. 

 (Species 5, tropical Asia, extending to the Pacific.) 



D. mangiferum, Blume; Kurz F. PI. 322. 



A large evergreen tree, the youngest shoots tawny-pubescent. 1.. impari- 

 pinnate, common petiole minutely puberulous, leaflets tl '■> pair, opposite or 

 alternate. 5-7 in. long, glabrous above, slightly hairy beneath. Fl. bisexual, 

 peutninororis. oatnpanulato, \ ! in. across, greenish-white, in Large mostly 

 axillary pubescent panicles. Stamens in, inserted at the base of the cup- 

 shaped crenulate disk-. Ovary 5-eelled. Drupe 1 in. diain.. depress 

 flat, rugulose, 2-5-celled. 



Andaman- ami Nicohar- Fl. U.S. Malay I 'd I i QSU la and LrOllipelagO. 



7. MELANORRHOEA. Wall. ; PI. Brit. Ind. ii. 26. 



L. coriaceous, simple, quite entire. PI. large, bisexual, in axillary panicles. 

 Sepals 5, cohering in the species here described into a pointed deciduous 



