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ii. 83 ; Co}-. PL i. t. 12 ; W. ^- A. Prodr. i. 1C8 ; Wt. Ic. L 558 ; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 41 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 52 ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 166 ; Brandts 

 For. Flor. 124 ; Wall. Cat. 8473. S. latifolius, Pers. (e.v Marchand). Anar- 

 CJirdium latifolium, Zamk III. t. 208. A. officinarum, Gm-tn. 



Tropical outer Himalaya, from Sirmore to Sikkim, ascending to 3500 ft. ; and 

 throughout the hotter parts of India, as far east as Assam (absent in the Eastern 

 Peninsula and Cej^lon). — Distrib. Eastern Archipelago and N. Australia. 



A moderate -sized dioecious deciduous tree, exuding a dark juice ; young parts 

 petioles leaves beneath and panicle clothed -with a fine pale pubescence. Leaves 9-30 

 oy 5-12 in., very coriaceous, flat, margin cartilaginous, rarely linear-oblong, usually 

 contracted below the middle; nerves 16-25 pairs, stout, slightly arched; petiole 

 1-2 in., rounded, not "«'inged. Panicle equalling or shorter than the leaves, stout; 

 branches spreading ; bracts lanceolate. Flowers ^— J ^"' di^i^*? subsessile, fascicled, 

 -j^afe much longer than the calyx, oblong, grcenish-"v\'hite. Filamc7its subulate. 

 ^)Tu^e 1 in. long, obliquely ovoid or oblong, smooth, sliining, black ; cup orange-red. 



VAR. cuneifolia ; DC. Prodr. ii. 62 ; leaves cuneate at the base often tomentose 

 beneath. Tropical Himalaya, Khasia Mts., Behar, and the Ooncan. — S. cuneifolia, 

 ^ozb. Fl. Ind. ii. 86 : Gh-ah. Cat Bomb. PL 41. 



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-i. S. xnicrocarpa, Wall Ca^, 989; leaves large obovate or subpanduri- 



lom tip rounded base acute obtuse or rounded glabrous and opaque above 

 pale with fine subscabrid pubescence beneath, drupe J in. 



. ^iRMA ; on the Irawaddy, WaUich, 



h If T/^ ^imilar in habit and foliage to S. Anacardium, but the drupes are less than 

 "alt the size.— Kurz's S. albescens (see p. 35), which he describes as hanng the petals 

 t^ xff^ ^^ s^bvalvate, a glabrous disk, pubescent ovary and 3 thick styles ; found in 

 tne Moung forests, Pegu, by Dr. Brandis, may possibly be this. 



3. S. pubescens, Thwaites Enum. 77; leaves lanceolate finely acumi- 



iiate under surface and petiole velvety-tomeutose nerves nearly straight, panicles 

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s^ tree {Thwaites). Leaves 6-12 by 2-2^ in., opaque 



beneath, 



tn veiy spreading branches. Flowers glabrous. Drupe oblong, slightly oblique, as 

 ^oad as the short cup. 



A small tree {Thwaites). Leaves 6-12 by 2-2^ in., opaque and glabrous 

 cept the pubescent midrib, densely clothed with rusty brown tomentum b< 

 se acute or rounded ; nerves 16-20 pairs, somewhat arched ; petiole \-l in. . 



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_4. S. Thwaltesll, JTook.f.; leaves lanceolate finely 



^^® ^^^ petiole laxly pubescent or glabrate nerves mucli arched, panicles 



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 me f l^' ^^^^^ ^s regarded by Thwaites as a glabrous form of S. pubescens, seems to 

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Leaves glabrous on both surfixces. Tauicles glabrous. 



<» nL^' *'^avancorlca, Bedd. I'lor. Si/lr. t. 232 ; leaves very large oblong 

 ^ °'^^|te- oblong thickly coriaceous, shining and reticulate on both surfaces, 

 P rounded, base rounded or acute, petiole 2 in. 



W^RN Peninsttla; Travancor Ghats, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. 

 VerT ^^ ^® tree. Leaves 12 by 5-6 in., occasionally lanceolate and acuminate, 

 t, Jj. "^^^^eous, dark green and shihing above, paler beneath ; nerves 16-18 pair«,^ 

 8pjJ,^^"<=^Jated beneath ; petiole 2 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, compotmO, 

 a edoinc- .1^,.. -i^ualling the leaves. ■• Flowers dioecious, 5-6-merous. Cali/x pubes- ," 





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