No. 105. 
Synoum glandulosum, A. de Jussieu. 
The Bastard Rosewood. 
(Family MELIACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Synoum, A. de Juss., in Mem. du Mm. Tar., 
xix, 226 (1830). 
Calyx 4- rarely 5-cleft. 
Petals 4, rarely 5, valvate or slightly imbricate in the bud. 
Staminal tube cylindrical, slightly crenulate. 
Anthers. —Twice as many as petals, within the summit of the tube. 
Disc continuous with the thickened base of the ovary. 
Ovary 3-celled; style short, with a disc-like stigma. 
Ovules. —2 in each cell, attached collaterally to a thick'sh placenta pendulous from the apex of 
the cavity. 
Capsule 3-celled, opening locu’icidally in 3 valves, or reduced by abortion to 2 valves and cells. 
Seeds. —2 in each cell, attached by a broad lateral hilum, and half embedded collaterally in a 
fleshy arillus formed by the enlarged placenta. 
A tree. 
Leaves pinnate, with entire leaflets.—(B.FI. i, 384.) 
Botanical description. —Species, S. glandulosum, A. dc Juss., in Mem. Mus. 
Tar., xix, 227, t. 15 (1830). 
A moderate sized tree, glabrous or the young leaves and shoots slightly silky-tomentose. 
Leaflets 5 to 9, elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, mostly 2 to 3 inches long, narrowed at the base, 
somewhat coriaceous, the lateral veins few and scarcely prominent. 
Flowers in short dense, axillary panicles, rarely exceeding 1 inch. 
Sepals small, orbicular, spreading. 
Petals about 2£ lines long. 
Staminal tube broad, slightly crenulate, glabrous or with a few hairs inside. 
Anthers sometimes slightly protruding. 
Ovary villous. 
Capsule depressed-globular, glabrous, about \ inch diameter, furrowed opposite the dissepiments 
so as to be almost 3-lobed.—(B.F1. i, 384.) 
Botanical Name. — Synoum, from two Greek words, sun ( syn) with, 
signifying, in botany, adhesion or growing together, and oum (Latin ovum ) an egg, 
in botany the ovule or young seed in the ovary, the organ which after fertilization 
develops into the seed; glandulosum, Latin, glandular, in allusion to the “glandular 
veins.” See below, and also see figure if on the plate. They are what modern 
