RhoiiosopIuEra.] XLI. ANACARDIACEiE. 321 



shortly suspended from the top of basally fixed, erect funicle. Styles 3, free, 

 patent ; stigmas capitate. Drupe globose, epicarp chartaceous, very smooth, 

 mesocarp thick woody, endocarp thin bony, compressed. Seed ovoid, compressed, 

 testa thin membranous. Embryo exalbuminous, cotyledons plain, radicle 

 superior, very short. — A tree of medium size. Leaves impari-pinnate, sub- 

 coriaceous, upper side very minutely puberulent ; leaflets shortly petiolulate. 

 Flowers small, red, numerous in dense pyramidal- panicles, axillary or terminal.^ 

 DC. Mono. Phane. iv. 324 ; M. Ad. Englers Monogr. of the Order. 



1. It. rhodanthema (red-flowered), Engl. I.e. A tree of medium size, bark 

 of trunk shedding in rather thick scaly pieces. Leaves pinnate, the common 

 petiole terete. Leaflets usually from 7 to 9, 2 to 3in. or more long, oblong, 

 obtusely-acuminate, usually with tufts of hairs along the midrib on the under side, 

 shortly petiolulate, the pinnate veins prominent underneath ; the leaflets of 

 young plants much larger and frequently bluntly lobed. Panicles pyramidal or 

 broadly thyrsoid, dense. Flowers dioecious, red, very shortly pedicellate. Sepals 

 broadly ovate, very obtuse, about 1 line long. Petals ovate, recurved, 1^ line 

 long. Stamens 10. Ovary broad. Styles 3, short, thick, diverging, with capitate 

 stigmas ; ovule nearly globular, suspended from an erect funicle. Drupe globular, 

 shining, about -|-in. diameter, putamen (endocarp) thick and woolly, striate 

 outside, lined with a separable cartilaginous layer inside. Seeds orbicular, flat, 

 testa membranous. — Rhus rhodanthema, F. v. M. in Fl. Austr. i. 489, where 

 Mr. Bentham remarks that the species differs from the greater part of the genus 

 (Rhus) in its large red flowers, 10 stamens and larger globular drupes. 



Hab.: Creek and river sides in the southern parts of the colony. 



I have some specimens belonging to this plant which were collected by A. Cunningham, 

 labelled Trichilia scabra, A. Cunn. 



Wood very beautiful, and greatly in demand for cabinet-work ; the heartwood of a deep glossy 

 brown, soft, and fine-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 109. 



*3. MANGIFERA, Linn. 



(Mango-bearing.) 



Calyx 4 to 5-partite ; segments imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4 to 5, free or 

 adnate to the disk, imbricate ; nerves thickened, sometimes ending in excrescences. 

 Stamens 1 to 5, rarely 8, inserted just within the disk or on it, 1 rarely more 

 perfect and much longer than the others, the others with imperfect or smaller 

 anthers, or reduced to teeth. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, oblique. Style lateral. 

 Ovule pendulous, funicle basal, inserted on the side of the cell above the base, 

 rarely horizontal. Drupe large, fleshy ; stem compressed, fibrous. Seeds large, 

 compressed ; testa papery. Cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal and lobed. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, quite entire,, coriaceous. Flowers small, 



polygamous in terminal panicles. Pedicels articulate. Bracts deciduous. — Hook. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 13. 



1. m. indica (Indian), Linn. Mango. A large tree, glabrous except the 

 panicle. Branches widely spreading. Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, or elliptic 

 or obovate-lanoeolate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, 6 to IGin. long, very variable 

 in breadth ; crowded at the ends of the branches, often shining ; margins often 

 undulate, the young growth usually coloured— a glossy purplish-brown. Petioles 

 1 to 4in. long, swelled at base. Panicles more or less pubescent. Bracts elliptic, 

 concave. Flowers yellow, odorous, subsessile, rarely pedicellate, male and female 

 in the same panicle. Sepals ovate, oblong, concave. Petals twice as iong, ovate, 



