Semecarpus. |§ © PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. ss 
SEMECARPUS. Scherb. gen. n. 501. 
Calyx tive-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ one-cell- 
ed, one-seeded, attachment superior. Nut superior, cor- 
date, cellular, One-seeded, sitting on a large, fleshy pear- 
shaped receptacle. Embryo inverse without perisperm, 
1.8, Anacardium. Corom. pl. 1. No.12. Willd. 1. 1476. 
Polygamous. Leaves cuneiform, downy a 
Panicles terminal, 
Sans. Arushkara, also Bhela. 
‘Beng. Bhela, Bhola-twki, or Bela-tuk7. 
Eng. Marking Nut. 
- Teling. Nella-jedee. 
_ Anacardium of the Materia Medica. ih 
A tree, bearing male or male-hermaphrodite foworbt on 
one and hermaphrodite on another ; which circumstance 
might remove it from the fifth, to the twenty-third class 
ofthe Linnzan system. Itis a native of all the moun- 
tainous parts of India; flowering time from May to se 
gust. Seed ripe in January and February. iw 3 
Dr. Konig, my predecessor, who was the first that 
described this tree, had never met with the male, other- 
wise so particular a circumstance would not have bouts 
omitted by so accurate a describer as the Doctor was. | 
' Trunk straight, covered with grey, scabrous bark, os 
seal of the younger parts” smooth, light ash-coloured, 
its inner substance contains in crevices, a quantity of 
white, soft, almost insipid gum. Branchlets numerous, 
spreading. Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, 
alternate, petioled, somewhat wedge-formed, or oblong- 
obovate rounded at the apex, entire, firm above, pretty 
“smooth, yet harsh, whitish underneath; from nine to 
eighteen inches Jong and from four to eight broad, Pe 
tioles-one and a half, or two inches zeit half vound. eS. 
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