NO. 53. — 1902.] TREES AND FLOWERING PLANTS. 



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124. — Spondias mangifera . 

 Embarella, S. ^i®S)d>(5<3 ; Ampuli, T. jythqsrft. 

 Trim. Cey. Flor., vol. I., p. 327. 



A small tree with pale white smooth bark and long 

 pinnate leaves. The leaflets, generally about five pairs, are 

 ovate, with very beautiful horizontal close pellucid venation 

 and a conspicuous intra-marginal vein that runs round the 

 entire leaf. Deciduous. 



Flowers small, in clusters on terminal panicles. Fruits 

 about the size and shape of an egg, smooth, exceedingly 

 milky, sometimes eaten. 



Generally planted as a fence tree, and is fit for very little 

 else. Occurs in both Provinces up to about 2,000 feet. 



The wood is very light, about 26 lb. per cubic foot, soft, 

 of a light gray colour. 



Affords a gum. Leaves as well as fruit are acid. 



[Moist low-country ; common, often planted.] 



LEGUM1NOS/E. 



As might be naturally expected, this great Order is by far 

 the largest in our Flora, comprising as it does, according to 

 Trimen, " 207 species, or nearly 7 per cent, of the whole." 



It is subdivided into three large Sub-orders : I. Papilion- 

 acese ; II. Caesalpinieae ; and III. Mimosese, according to the 

 primary distinguishing characters of the flowers. 



Sub-family Papilionaceae alone is divided into forty-seven 

 Genera, of which only a few yield timber, while many are 

 of use in other ways. 



The Genera referred to are : Rothia, Heylandia, Crota- 

 laria, Parochetus, Indigof era, Psoralea, Mundulea, Tephrosia, 

 Sesbania, Zornia, Stylosanthes, Smithia, iEschynomene, 

 Ormocarpon, Eleiotis, Pycnospora, Pseudarthria, Uraria, 

 Alyssicarpus, Desmodium, Abrus, Shuteria, Dumasia, 

 Glycine, Teramnus, Mucuna, Erythrina, Strongylodon, 



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