MAP PI A FOETID A. (Nat ord. Olacineae.) 



MAPPLA, Jacq.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers polygamous, calyx small 5 toothed, petals 5 hypogynous valvate villous, stamens 5 hypogynous 

 alternate with the petals, authers oblong affixed by the back connective often mucronate, disk cnpulate surrounding the ovary or sometimes inconspicuous, 

 ovary 1 celled, style short, stigma thick, ovules 2 pendulous, drupe slightly fleshy with a 1 seeded crustaceous or woody nut, seed pendulous, embryo in the 

 apes of the albumen, radicle superior, cotyledons broad foliaceom. Trees pubesceut orglabrjus, leaves alternate entire or sinuate, cymes lax terminal corym- 

 bose.— Leretia, Veil Stemonurus, Wight (not Blume). 



MaPPIA FCETIDA. (Wight.) A good sized tree polygamous, leaves elliptic oblong acuminate, pubescent beneath. 4-7 

 inches lon» by about 2-3 broad, petioles §•§ inch long, flowers 3-4 lines in expansion yellowish very fetid, in corymbose terminal pani- 

 cles, everywhere villous with short hairs, stamens glabrous, style about as long as the ovary, drupe succulent olive-like purple, nut thin. 

 Wight Icones, 955. Mappia fcetkla, ovata, Gardneriana. et Championiana, Miers. Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. Ser. 2 Vol. Ix. 395-7. 



A very common tree in the moist forests of the western side of the Madras Presidency and in Ceylon from no great elevation up to 

 7-8000- feet, it is very abundant on the Nilgiris. In Ceylon it is called Oandapaana, the figure is taken from living specimens gathered at 

 OotacamvM d. 



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