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ANACARDIACE^E. 
[Campnosperma. 
Seychelles, common in all the islands from the shore to the hilltops. Wood 
used for making canoes. Endemic, hut very near C. zeylanicwn , Th waites, of Ceylon. 
Bois des Mont ay ties. 
2. SPONDIAS, Linn. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx small, deciduous, 4-5-cleft. Petals the 
same number, nearly valvate, spreading when expanded. Disk promi- 
nent, cupshaped, with a raised crenate border. Stamens 8-10, in- 
serted with the petals beneath the disk. Ovary sessile, free, 4-5-celled ; 
ovules solitary, pendulous ; styles 5, short, free at the base, joined 
upwards. Fruit a fleshy drupe, with a 1-5-celled bony eudocarp. — 
Large trees, w r ith alternate exstipulate imparipinnate leaves, numerous 
opposite leaflets, minute whitish flowers and yellow eatable fruit as large 
as a plum. Distrib. All round the world in the tropics. Species 8. 
Leaves and peduncles densely pubescent 1. S. pubescens. 
Leaves and peduncles glabrous 2. S. borbonica. 
1. S. pubescens, 'Baler. A tree, with stout terete branchlets. 
Leaves crowded at the end of the branchlets, imparipinnate, 5-6 in. 
long; leaflets 9-11, ovate, acute, membranous, 2-3 iu. long, pilose 
on both surfaces, opposite, nearly sessile ; petiole densely pilose, 
1-1J in. long. Panicles almost racemose, crowded at the end of the 
branches, 2-3 in. long, with a densely pilose rachis, distinctly 
peduncled, with the flowers crowded on very short distant spreading 
branches. Calyx nearly sessile, glabrous, campanulate, under in. 
long, with 5 obtuse oblong teeth as long as the tube. Petals lanceo- 
late, twice as long as the sepals: Anthers 10, oblong, included. Fruit 
not seen. Shakua pubescens, Bojer , Sort. Maur. 82. 
Mauritius, in the dense forests of Quartier Militaire and Savanne. Endemic. 
Bois Blanc. 
2. S. borbonica, Baker. A tree, glabrous in all its parts, with 
stout terete branches. Leaves imparipinnate, crowded near the end 
of the branches ; petiole 2-3 in. long ; blade half a foot long ; leaflets 
7-9, sessile, opposite, membranous, 2-3 in. long, oblong or lanceolate 
acuminate. Panicles crowded at the end of the branches, short- 
peduncled, 3-4 in. long, almost racemose, the flowers crowded on very 
short spreading branchlets. Buds globose. Calyx nearly sessile, under 
2 V in. long ; teeth 5,. ovate, obtuse, longer than the tube. Petals 
twice as long as the sepals. Stamens 10, included. Fruit not seen. 
Poupartia borbonica, Lam. Bncyc. v. 606 ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 82. 
Mauritius, on woody hills at Flacq and Trois Hots. Also Bourhon. Bois 
Poupart. * 
The Polynesian S. dulcis, Forst. is commonly cultivated both in Mauritius and the 
Seychelles. Fruit de Cy there. Hevi. 
3. SCLEROCARYA, Hochst. 
Flowers regular, polygamous. Sepals 4-5, free, oblong, imbricated. 
Petals 4-5, broad-oblong, imbricated. Disk prominent, cup- shaped, 
