Spondlas,] 



34. ANACA11D1ACEJ3. 



117 



Attains a considerable size, Trees 100 ft. high and 3-4 ft. in diameter 

 are not uncommon in the N". K^nara evergreen forests. 



Bark smooth, thin, grey (no rhytidomej, covered with scattered, raised 

 lenticular corky cells ; inner bark reddish, hard, often fibrous. Green 

 pjjirenchyma soon disappearing. Wood very similar in, structure to that 

 of H. Arnottiana. 



9. NOTHOPEGIA, Blurae. 



Trees. Leaves alternate or opposite, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, 

 petioled, entire. Flowers polygamous, small, shortly pedicelled or 

 sessile, in axillary panicles, shorter than the leaves. Calyx 4-5-fid, 

 persistent. Petals 4-5, imbricate, longer than the calyx, inserted at the 

 base of the disk. Disk annular, 4^5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, filaments 

 hairy. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 1-celled ; ovule pendulous from near the 

 top of the cell ; style very short ; stigma indistinctly 3-lobed. Drupe 

 fleshy, striate; seed oblong, pendulous, testa membranous; embryo 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle superior. 



N. Colebrookiana, Blume Mus. Bot. 1. 203 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 40 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 164. Olycycarpus racemosus, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 61. 

 Amberi^ Vern. ; Sonemauy M.; Amhatti^ ulagera^ mattigar, K. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan and N. Kanara southwards to 

 Ceylon, Common in the evergreen forests of the Konkan and N. Kanara, 

 ghats. Fl. Jan.-Mch. Fr. Mch.-May, A small or moderate sized tree. 



Wood grey or reddish grey, hard^ compact, smooth. Pores small, uni-^ 

 form, single or 2 or 3 in a radial row. Med. rays fine, close, white, dis- 

 tinct. Annual rings marked by concentric fine white continuous lines of 

 white tissue. Weighs about 47 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



10. SPONDIAS, Linn, . 



Trees. Leaves oddpinnate, leaflets usually caudate acuminate. 

 Flowers polygamous, small, in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5-fid. 

 Petals 4-5, spreading. Disk cmpular, crenate. Stamens 8-10, in- 

 serted beneath the disk. Ovary free, 4-5-celled ; ovules solitary, 

 pendulous in the cells; styles 4-5, conniving; stigmas shortly 

 spathulate. Drupe fleshy with a hard thick stone, 1-5-celled. 

 Seeds pendulous ; testa membranous ; embryo straight, cotyledons 

 elongate, plano-convex ; radicle short, superior. 



Leaflets 4-6 pairs, entire, not caudate. Fruit 



rough, fibrous ^ 1. ^. mangifera. 



Leaflets 5-B pairs, crenate-serratc, caudate-acumi- 

 nate. Fruit smooth ... 2, 8. acuminata, 



1. S. mangifera, Willd. ; DO. Prod. TI. 75. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 169 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. F I. Suppl. 19; Brandis For. FL 128. Hog Plum. 

 Ambada^ M, ; Amatdj K. 



