42 XLTi. ANACAEDiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) ISpondiasi 



20. SFONDIAS, Linn. 



Deciduous glalarous trees. Leaves usually crowded at the tips of the 

 tranches, alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets suh-opposite, \isuaUy caudate-acumi- 

 nate. Panicles terminal, spreading. Flowers small, polygamous. Calyx small, 

 4^5-fid, deciduous, lohes slightly imbricate. Petals 4-5, spreading, suhvalvate. 

 Disk cupular, broad, crenate. Stamens 8-10, inserted beneath the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, free, 4^6-celled ; styles 4^5, conniving ; ovules solitary, pendulous ia 

 the cells. Drwpe fleshy, stone hard, thick, 1-5-celled, the cells erect or 

 divergiug and opening by canals through the top of the stone. Seeds pendulous, 

 testa membranous ; embryo straight, cotyledons elongate plano-convex, radicle 

 short superior. — Disteib. About 8 species all tropical. 



Spondias dotcis, Willd. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 452 ; Wall. Cat. 8477 A. ; -with 

 crenate longer leaflets, is a South-Sea Island plant, introduced into India, and eaUed 

 ' Hog-plum' and ' Otaheite Apple.' — Wall. Cat. 8477 B. from the Calcutta gardens is 

 in part 8. 'lutea, L., the Hog-plum of the West Indies. 



Spondias ? ; Wall. Cat. 8479, from Hurdwar appears to be Bhcs succedanea, 

 Linn. 



1. S. mang^ifera, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 75; leaflets 4-6 pairs 2-9 in. 

 oblong aciuninate quite entire, panicle 1-2 ft., drupe ovoid, stone rough and 

 fibrous. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 451 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 173 ; Wt. Ml. i. 186, t. 76 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8476 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 169 ; Dah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Flw. Suppl. 19 ; 

 Cfrah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 42 ; Brand. For. Flor. 128. S. amara, Lamh. ; Ham. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 531. Evia amara, Comm. ; Blume Mus. Bot. i. 234; 

 Thwaites Enum. 78. Mangifera pumata. Keen, (not Lam7c.).—P/ieede Sort. 

 Mai. i. t. 50. 



Throughout India from the Inbus eastwards and south-wards to Malacca and 

 Ceylon, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya. "Wild and cultivated. — Disteib. 

 Tropical Asia. 



A small tree, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 1-1 J ft. ; petiole slender; leaflets 2-9 

 by 1-4 in., shortly petiolulate, shining, more or less oblique ; nerves 10-30 on each 

 side, horizontal, joined by a strong intra-marginal one. Panicles large, spreading, 

 sparingly branched. Flowers ^ in. diam., scattered, uni- or bisexual. Calyx 5-toothed. 

 Petals oblong, greenish--wHte. Disk broad, 10-toothed. Filaments short, subulate. 

 Drupe 1^-2 in. long, yellow, smooth; flesh very austere; stone cavernous, usually 

 ■with 1 (1-3) perfect seed.— The ' Amra' of the Hindoos, and the Hog-plum of many 

 Europeans. 



2. S. acuminata, £o.vb. Fl. Ind. ii. 453; leaflets 6-8 pair 1^ in. 

 elliptic caudate-acuminate quite entire or obsciu:ely crenukte, panicle 6-8 ia., 

 drupe ovoid-globose, stone smooth fibrous. G}-ah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 42 ; W. 8r A. 

 Prodr. 173 ; Wall. Cat. 8478. ' 



Westeen Peninsula; Malabar, Heyne, Eoxburgh; in the Concan hills, near 

 Kenuery caves, Graham; Canara, Eitchie. 



An elegant middling sized tree (Eoxb.), apparently differing from S. mangifera 

 chiefly in the smaller leaves with longer points, the very short panicle, and smooth 

 stone (if I am right in referring a fruiting plant in Wight's Herbarium to this 

 species).— In Wallich's Herbarium, specimens of Odina Wodier are mixed with this. 



3._ S. axillaris, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 453 ; leaflets 6-8-paiis ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate serrate, drupe OToid-oblong, stone smooth. 



NiPAL, Soxburgh. 



A smaU Melia-looking tree. Leaves 1 ft.; petiole slender; leaflets shortly petio- 



