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80 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. , Holigarna. 
Stigma large, convex. Capsules berried, siliquose, subcy- 
lindric, about as thick as a goose quill, and nearly two 
inches long, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds a few ; reni- 
form, attached, as in the germ. 
HOLIGARNA. R. 
Potycamovs. Calyx five-toothed. Petals five, germ 
one-celled ; ovula single, attachment lateral. Berry infe- 
rior, one-seeded. Embryo transverse, without perisperm. 
1. H. longifolia. R. 
Cattu-tsjeru, or Kattou-tjeroe. Rheed. Mal, 4. p. 19 Eo. 
Leaves alternate, cuneiform, some inoffensive subulate 
bodies on the inside of the short petiole. Flowers pani- 
cled. 
A large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of 
Chigegomsn where, it blossoms in ete _ Seed. ips in 
“Dr: Honest first found the aaie tetas in Chittagong, 
and some years after found the female hermaphrodite in 
‘Malabar, and gave it the name Holigarna, from its ap-_ 
_pellation in the language of Kurnata. He thinks itis the 
variety called Bibo of the Cattu-tsjeru,Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 9. 
And says the natives of Malabar by incision, extract 
an exceedingly acrid juice, with which they varnish 
their targets. I am however inclined to consider Van. 
_Rheed’s Catiu-tsjeroe to be this very tree, and his Bibo, 
or Tsjeervo, vol. 4. p. 20. to be Semecarpus Anacardium. 
. Trunk straight, in a twelve years old male tree ten 
inches in circumference, Bark smooth, ash-coloured. 
_ Branches patent; height of the whole tree twenty-five 
feet. Inits native soil the trunk attains to the thick- 
- ness of six feet in circumference ; while the total height 
of the tree is above fifty. Leaves alternate, crowded a- _ 
