Spondkis] XLI, ANACAEDIACE^ 201 



5. SPONDIAS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 42. 



L. iniparipinnate, leaflets nearly opposite. FL small, polygamous, in 

 terminal panicles. Calyx small, deciduous, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, spreading. 

 Stamens 8-10, inserted outside beneath tlie broad crenate disk. Ovary sessile, 

 4-5-celled. Drupe fleshy, stone l~5-celled, hard, thick, with a tuberculatey 

 fibrous surface. Species 8, tropics of the old and new world. 



1. S. mangifera, Willd. ; Wight 111. t. 76 ; Bedd. M. Sylv. t 169 ; Kurz 

 F. Fl. i. 322; Kanjilal Forest Flora 102. The Hog-plum. Vern. Amra^ 

 Ambarcf, Amarat, H. ; Ambada, M. ; Ambofa, TJrijB. ; Ambe^ Amate, Kan.; 

 Ambalam, Tarn. ; Gtv^j Burm. 



A glabrous, deciduous tree, large in tropical, small in Northern India, wood 

 grey, soft, light. Bark smooth, whitish or brownish-grey, aromatic. Leaflets 

 3-5 pair, quite entire, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 3-6 in. long, sec. n. nearly 

 straight, 10-20 pair, joined at the ends by a prominent nerve running along 

 and close to the edge of leaf. Fl. pentamerous, white, nearly sessile, clustered 

 on stout ramifications of a sparingly branched panicle, petals -^ in. long. 

 Drupe yellow when ripe, 1 1 in. long, is eaten, but has an astringent acid and 

 turpentine taste. 



Subliimalayan tract and outer valleys to 3,000 ft., from the Chenab eastwards. Salt- 

 range in tlie Punjab. Deciduous forests of Burma and tbe Western Peninsula. PI. 

 February -May. One of the first trees to slied it^. leaves and one of the last to renew 

 tliem, often not until tlie rains have set in. In Ceylon, where it is common in the 

 moist low country it is bare of leaves for a short time at the end of the dry weather, 

 young foliage in April beautiful orange-pink, Trimen Handb. Ceylon i.,* 327. Deer 

 eat the fruit greedily and heaps of the stones are frequently found in the forests 

 where this tree grows. Indian Archipelago, Hongkong. 2. S. acuminata, Roxb. 

 Konkan Hills, North Kanara, Malabar. A middle-sized fast-growing tree, leaflets 5-8 

 pair, remotely crenulate, long-acuminate, stone believed to be smooth. 



3. S. axillaris, Roxb.; Ann. Bot. Gax^d. Gale. ix. t. 25. Vern. Labshij ISTep. 



A tall evergreen tree. Bark brown or reddish, peeling off in long flakes, 

 wood dark pink, red on exposure, soft but durable. Leaflets 6-8 pair, opposite 

 or nearly so, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, in old trees entire, in young trees 

 serrate, 3-5 in., petiolule I in. long. Fl. polygamous, pentamerous, the male 

 in axillary panicles, stamens 10, disk annular 104obed, the fertile (bi- 

 sexual) solitary or 2 (sometimes 3) on axillary peduncles, J in. across, ovary 

 5-celled, styles 5, short, erect. Drupes ovoid, 1--1| in. long, yellow when ripe^ 

 edible, stone 5-celled. 



Sikkim, Bhutan 1-4,500 ft. Kaohin hills. This is CWlreJa sp. G-amble List 17, and 

 is probably identical with Poupartia Fordii, Hemsley, Hook. Ic, PL t. 2,557, a tree in 

 the Happ3^ Valley of Hongkong. 



6. DRACONTOMELUM, Blume ; Fl. Brit Ind. ii 43. 

 (Species 5, tropical Asia, extending to the Pacific.) 



D. mangiferum, Blume ; Kurz F. Fl. 322. 



A large evergreen tree, the youngest shoots tawny -pubescent. L. imparl- 

 pinnate, common petiole minutely puberulous, leaflets 6-9 pair, opposite or 

 alternate, 5-7 in. long, glabrous above, slightly hairy beneath. FL bisexual^ 

 pentamerous, campanulate^ ^-| in. across, greenish-white, in large mostly 

 axillary pubescent panicles. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the cup- 

 shaped crenulate disk. Ovary 5-oelled. Drupe 1 in. diam., depressed, stone 

 flat, rugulose, 2-5-celled. 



Andamans and Nicobars PI. R. S. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 



7. MELANORRHCEA, Wall ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 25. 



L. coriaceous, simple, quite entire. Fl. large, bisexual, in axillary panicles. 

 Sepals 5, cohering in the species here described into a pointed deciduous 



