SOLENOCARPUS INDICA. (Nat. order Anacardiacese.) 



SoLENOCARPUS. 1FA.~ GEN. CHAE. Flowers herniathrodite, calyx small 4-5 cleft, lobes deciduous, petals 4-5 valvate at length reflexed 

 disk annular 8-10 crenated, stamen 8-10 inserted below the margin of the disk on the outside, filaments all equal in length, ovary free sessile 1 celled, style 

 thick clavate, stigma oblique truncated, ovules pendulous from one side near the apex of the cell, drupe small oblong, pericarp cellular replete with fragrant 

 oil, putamen hard bony, seed linear compressed, cotyledons linear plano-convex, radicle superior short. A tree, leaves unequally pinnate, panicles fascicled at 

 the apex of the branches, flowers very small white, 



&OLENOCARPUS INDICA. (WA.) A small or middling sized tree young shoots and young leaves minutely puberu- 

 lous, leaves fascicled at the ends of the old branches and alternate on the young ones, unequally pinnate, 6-12 inches long, leaflets 5-7 

 opposite or sub-opposite pair with an odd one, narrow oblong from an equal base, acuminate slightly crenulated glabrous or sub»Ia- 

 brous in age, 2-2£ inches long by 8-9 lines broad, petiolules 1-1 \ line3 loug, panicles numerous fascicled at the apices of the old branch- 

 es, flowers very numerous small pure white, petals 4-5 refiexed, disk 8-10-lobed, stamens 8-10, equal in length, fruit oblong 3 lines 

 long \\ lines in diameter. WA. Prod. p. 171. 



This tree is very beautiful when in blossom, being a perfect mass of white flowers. I found it inflowir and ripe fruit this March on 

 the Anamallays (2G00/ee< elevation) near the head of the ghat leading upfront 1'alghal to the Nelliampaddy coffee estates and it also grows on 

 the Tinnevelly ghats, when in leaf only it much resembles the Spondias mangifera. 



Analysis. 



1. A flower bud. 



2. A 4-merous flower, 4 petals and 8 stamens. 

 S. A 5-merous flower, 5 petals, 10 stamens. 



4. A 5-merous Sower fully expanded, petals recurved. 



5. The same petals and all the stamens but one removed showing the disk, ovary and style and the insertion of the Stamens, 



6. Anthers, front and hack view. 



7. Ovary cut vertically showing the solitary ovule, pendulous from near the apex. 



8. The fruit. 



9. The same cut transversely showing the oil-cells in the pericarp and the bony putamen or stone, 



10. The putamen removed from the drupe, 



11. The same cut vertically. 



12. The embryo showing the short superior radicle and linear cotyledons. 



13. Branch of fruit (life-size.) 



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