112 



34. ANACARUTACEiE. 



ascending basal funicle; styles 1-4. Fruit a drnpe, 1-6-celled and 

 seeded. Seeds exalbuminous. Cotyledons usually plano-convex, flesby, 

 radicle thort, straight or incurved^ superior or inferior. 



Fruit 1- celled, 1 -needed. 



Ovules pendulous from an ascending basal funicle. 



Leaves palmattly trifoliate or compound ... 1. Rhus. 



Leaves simple, alternate. 



Peduncle not enlarged in fruit. 



Stamens 1-5. Fruit a large fleshy drupe 



with a compressed filrous stone ... 2. Mano-IFERA. 

 Stamens 10. Fruit a small drupe with a 



crustaceous or bony stone 3, Bfchanakia, 



Peduncle enlarged in fruit 4. Anacaedium. 



Ovules pendulous from the top of the cell or from 

 the walls of the ovary above the middle. 

 Leaves pinnate. 



Petals valvate. Stamens 10, style 1 ... 5. SolenocaepuS. 

 Petals imbricate. Stamens 8-10, styles 3-4. 6. Odina. 



Leaves simple. 

 Stamens 5. 



Petals imbricate. Styles 3. Disk broad, 



annular 7. Semecarpus. 



Petals valvate. Styles 3-5. Disk lining 



the calyx-tube ... 8. Holigarna. 



Stamens 4. 



Style ], short. Disk annular, 4 -5-lobed ... 9, Nothopegia. 

 Fruit 2-5-celled, 2-5-seeded. 



Ovules pendulous in the cells. Leaves alternate, 

 oddpinnate .,o ... 10. Spondias, 



L RHUS, Lina. 



Trees or sbrubs with resinous, often acrid juice. Leaves alternate, 

 pinnate or l-S-foliate, rarely simple, exstipulate. Flowers small, white 

 or greenish, generally dioecious, in axillary or terminal panicles. 

 Calyx small, 4-(D-partite, persistent, imbricate. Petals as many as 

 the sepal-lobes, deciduous, equal, inserted on the base of the calyx, out- 

 side the disk. Disk fleshy, annular or 5-lobed, adnate to the base of 

 the calyx. Stamens 5, free, inserted on or under the edge of the 

 disk; anthers imperfect in the fern, flowers. Ovary sessile, ovoid or 

 globose, 1-celled; styles 3, short or long ; ovule solitary, anatropous, 

 suspended from a long, filiform basal furicle. Drupe small, dry, com- 

 pressed, stone bony or crustaceous; albumen 0; cotyledons flat, 

 radicle curved, short, superior. 



R. mysorensis, Hcyne ; W. & A. Prod. 172 ; Fh Br. 1. 2. 9 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 119 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 78. 



N. W, India, Sind, Punjab, W. Peninsula;, throughout the dry Deccan 

 districts, Mysore, common in the small forest at the base of the Bababuden 

 Hills. FL Feb., Fr. ApriL Bark thin, browDish. Wood hard, yellowish, 

 close-grained, heavy* Pores moderate aized, evenly distribated. Mcd» rays 

 fine, numerous, wavy. The bark contains 15 per cent, of the tannic 

 acid. Gives a fine brown colour to leather. 



