1S96.] Gr.. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 501 



Perafc: Seortechini, No. J668 ; Wray, Nos. 2836, 3095; King's 

 Collector, Nos. 3626, 4896, 5046, 6537, and 6807. 



Tlie nearest ally of this is probably M. succedanea, L., than which 

 it, however, lias much larger panicles and smaller more reniform drupes. 

 It has moreover diffei'ently veined petals, and the leaflets are less nar- 

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

 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. Leaves few at the ends of the 

 branches, alternate, unequally-pinnate, deciduous ; leaflets opposite, quite 

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

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

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

 annular, 4-5-lobed. Male flower Stamens 8-JO, inserted within the 

 disc. Ovary 4-5-parted. Female flower Ovary sessile, oblong, l-celled; 

 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. — Distrib. About 12 

 species, mostly African. 



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

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

 glabrous. Leaves 32 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 6 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. — Lrupe about "5 in. long, red. TV. and A. 

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

 t. 60 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 123 ; Wall. Cat. 8475 ; Royle 111. t. 31 ; 'Dabs. 

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

 Vol. I, Pt. 2, p. 622; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 29 ; Kurz For. Flora 

 Barm. I, 321 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 267. 



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

 — Distrib. British India. 



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