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Carpels 6, distinct, only 1 becoming fertile ; 



stamens 10 ; leaves simple .... 1. Buchanania. 

 Carpels combined into a 1-celled ovary, 

 leaves simple oc compound. 

 Styles 3-4. 

 Ovule suspended from a basal funic! e. 

 Petals 4-6, leaves 3-foliolate . . 2. Rhus. 

 Petals 0, leaves pinnate . .3. Pistacia. 



Ovule pendulous from near the top 

 of tbe ovary. 



Leaves odd-pinnate . . .4. Odin a. 

 Leaves simple . . . ,5. Sembcaepus. 

 Style single, lateral ; only one fertile 

 stamen, leaves simple . ., 6. Mangifeba. 



Carpels combined into a 5-celled ovary, 



stamens 10, leaves odd-pinnate . . 7. Spondias. 



1. Buchanania, Roxb. ; FI. Brit. Ind. ii, 22. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, entire. Panicles 

 terminal and axillary, crowded. Flowers small, white, herma- 

 phrodite. Ca/^jr short 3-o-cleft, persistent, imbricate. Petals 4^'^^ 

 oblong, recurved, imbricate. Dish orbicular, 5-lobed. Stamens 8-10, 

 free, insetted at the base of the disk. Carpels 5-6, free, seated in 

 the cavity of the disk, one fertile, the rest imperfect ; style short ; 

 stigma truncate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Drupe 

 small, flesh scanty ; stone crustaceous or bony, 2-valved. Seed 

 gibbous, acute atone fnd. — Species about 20, in Trop. Asia, Australia 

 and Polynesia. 



B. latifolia, Uoxh. Hort. Beng. 32; Fl. Ind. ii, 385; W. ^ A. Prod, 

 169 ; Koyle III. 174 ; D <^ G. Bomb. Fl. 52 ; Brand. For. Fl. 127; F. B. 

 J. ii, 23 ; Watt K. B. Vern. Piydl, hhat-bhildwa (Dehra Dun). 



A moderate-sized subdioecious tree with tessalated bark. Leaves 6-10 

 in. long, broadly oblong, rounded at the apex, coriaceous and hard, 

 reticulate on both surfaces, usually pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves 

 16-20 pairs, stout, nearly straight; petiole stout, pubescent. Panicles 

 terminal and axilLiry, pyramidal, shorter than the leaves, woolly or 

 velvety ; bracts small, caducous. Flowers crowded, i in. in diam., 

 greetiish-white. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals ublung. Dish fleshy. Stamens 

 10, spreading, equalling the petals. Carpels 5, hairy, one perfect, the 

 others reduced to filaments. Bruise subglobose, i in , black. 



In dry hot forests of Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Euhilkhand, Oudh, Gorakh- 

 pur, Merwara and Bandelkhand, associated with sd', mohua and dkdik. 

 DiSTKiB.: Sub-Himalayan tract from the Sutlej, ascending to 3,000 ft. ; 



