Sclerocarya.~\ 
ANACARDIACEJE. 
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with a spreading border. Stamens 12-18, inserted under the disk ; 
filaments filiform ; anthers round, minute. Ovary subglobose, 2-5- 
celled ; styles spreading from the base. Fruit a large fleshy drupe, 
with a 2-3-celled endocarp. — Large trees, with imparipinnate leaves 
and small flowers in dense short axillary racemes. Distrib. Entirely 
African. Species 4. 
Leaflets distinctly petioled 1 . S. Shakua. 
Leaflets sessile 2. S. castanea. 
1. S. Shakua, Baker. A tall tree, glabrous in all its parts, with 
thick stiff branchlets. Leaflets 9-11, opposite, moderately firm, 
oblong, acute or cuspidate, lf-2 in. long ; petiole slender, 1^-2 in. 
long. Eacemes short-peduncled, 2-3 in. long, close or interrupted ; 
pedicels very short ; bracts miuute, deltoid, navicular. Calyx campanu- 
late, in. long. Petals 2-3 times as long as the sepals. Stamens 
15-16, rather exserted. Female flowers and fruit not seen. Spondias 
Chakoua, Bojer in Serb. Kew. 
Mauritius, Newman ! This may he Shakua excelsa , Bojer, Hort. Maur. 82 (name 
only), which is a native of Madagascar and in Mauritius cultivated only. Dr. Kirk 
has found it in Zanguehar. 
2. S. castanea. Baker. A tree, glabrous in all its parts, with 
very thick terete branchlets. Leaves crowded, imparipinnate ; petiole 
1-lf in. long ; leaflets 7-9, opposite, sessile, oblong, acute, 2-4 in. long, 
moderately firm, obscurely crenulate, unequally rounded at the base, 
the lowest pair shorter and broader than the rest. Flowers in dense 
sessile axillary racemes, withered and badly shown in our only speci- 
men. Expanded corolla % in. across, exceeding the calyx ; petals 
oblong, stellate. Styles 5, diverging. 
Island of Rodriguez, in the valleys of Riviere Palmiste and Riviere Mouruc. 
Bouton ! Balfour ! Figue Marron. Endemic. 
* The Cashew-nut, Anacardium occidentale , Linn., a native of the 
"West Indies, is commonly planted both in Mauritius and is now the 
commonest of all trees in the Seychelles. It is a tree 15-20 feet 
high, with crowded petioled large entire obtuse obovate-cuneate leaves 
with very distinct spreading main veins, small polygamous pentame- 
rous flowers in terminal panicles with corymbose branches, silky linear 
petals and an oblique reniform indehiscent fruit on a thickened 
clavate red or yellow pedicel. Noix d' acajou. Cajou. 
The Mango, Mangifera indica, Linn., is also commonly planted and 
subspontaneous. Manguier. 
Order XXXII. CONNARACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 5, free or 
connate at the base, coriaceous, persistent. Petals 5, obovate or lin- 
gulate, with a short claw. Disk obscure. Stamens 5-10, obscurely 
perigynous ; filaments subulate, free ; anthers minute, 2-celled, slit 
