189G.] G. K'mg-MatcrmJs fo7' a Flora of Ih- Malayan Ven'm^^nla. oOl 



Perak: Scortecliini, No. JGG8 ; Wray, Nos. 231G, 3095; Kint,/s 

 Collector, Nos. 362G, 489G, 504G, G537, and C807. 



The nearest ally of this is probably M. succedanea, L., than wliidi 

 it, however, has much larger panicles and smaller more reni form di-npes. 

 It has moreover differently veined petals, and the leaflets arc less nar- 

 rowed to the base. It differs, however, not only from that, but fiom 

 every other Indian or Malayan species in being scandent. Of the scan- 

 dent habit there appears to be no doubt whatever, for the fact is noted 

 on almost every specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium. 



13. Odina, Roxb. 



Trees with few stout branches. Loaves few at the ends of the 

 branches, alternate, unequally-pinnate, deciduous ; Zeq/Zfits opposite, quite 

 entire. Racemes simple and panicled, terminal, fascicled. Flowers 

 small, monoecious or dioecious, fascicled, shortly pedicelled. Calyx 4-5- 

 lobed, persistent ; lohes rounded, imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. Disc 

 annular, 4-5-lobed. Mali; flower Stamens 8-10, inserted witldn the 

 disc. Oufl?'^ 4-5-par.ted. Female flower Oi-ar?/ sessile, oblong, I-cellod ; 

 styles 3-4, stout, stigmas simple or capitellate ; ovule pendulous from 

 near the top of the cell. Drupe small, compressed, oblong, sub-reniform, 

 crowned by the distant styles ; stone hard. Seed compressed ; embryo 

 curved, cotyledons flat fleshy, radicle superior. — Distuib. About 12 

 species, mostly African. 



Odina Wodier, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 293. A small deciduous tree 20 

 to 40 feet high : young branches thick, puberuloiis at first, soon becoming 

 glabrous. Leaves 12 to 18 in. long ; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, obliquely ovate, 

 acuminate ; the base rounded or sub-cuneate, unequal ; the edges en- 

 tire ; length 3 to G in. ; the petiolules '15 in. long. Male racemes com- 

 pound, the female simple, puberulous. Flowers crowded in cymose 

 fascicles on the racemes or panicles, bracts ciliate. Sepals obtuse. 

 Petals twice as long as the sepals, oblong, spreading. Stamens in the 

 male equalling the petals. — Drupe about '5 in. long, red. W. and A. 

 Prodr. I, 171 ; Thwaites Enum. 78 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 42 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. GO ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 123 ; Wall, Cat. 8475 ; Eoyle 111. t. 31 ; T3alz. 

 and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 51; Brandis For. Flor. 123; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Vol. I, Pt. 2, p. G22 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 29 ; Kurz Foi-. Flora 

 Burm. I, 321 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 2G7. 



The Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Penang : (probably phuitoJ.) 

 ■ — DiSTRiB. Biitish India. 



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