Anacardium, .ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 313 
Trunk short, thick and very crooked. Bark considerably 
rough, and in old trees deeply cracked. Branches numer- 
ous, spreading in every direction to a great extent. Young 
shoots round, and smooth, Leaves alternate, rather short, 
petioled, obovate, with a rounded or emarginate apex ; 
smooth on both sides and of a hard texture, from four 
to eight inches long. Panicles terminal, bearing both 
barren and fertile hermaphrodite flowers intimately inter- 
mixed, small, and of the same size and external appear- 
“ance. There may be trees which produce barren flowers 
only. Bractes gibbous, lanceolate. Calyx inferior, five- 
cleft nearly to the base ; divisions oblong, conic, acute, and 
pretty smooth. Petals five, linear-lanceolate, revolute, of 
a pale yellow colour, with longitudinal pink stripes, Fila- 
ments generally nine, united at the base into a ring round 
the germ, one of them particularly in the sterile flowers, 
‘More than double the length of the others. Anthers, they 
“appear to be all fertile, that of the major filament larger, 
Germ in the barren flowers minute, with a very short style, 
in the fertile flowers obliquely obcordate ; one-celled, 
with one reniform seed attached to the side of its cell. 
Style long, becoming convolute, as if to bring the simple 
stigma into contact with the large anther of the lung fila- 
ment. Fruit as described and figured, by Gort. vol. 1. 
. 192. ¢. 40. 
2. A. dubium. R. 
A native of Sumatra, and said to be a larg’ and beau- 
tiful tree, tn 
Branchlets round, and smooth. Leaves alternate, 
Short-petioled, lanceolate, entire,.smooth, from four to 
_ Six inches long, and about two broad. Stipules none. 
_ Panicles terminal, thin, pretty large, and composed of 
_ @ few, alternate, compound, and simple corymbiferous 
Yawifications. Flowers numerous and small, Calyx 
. inferior, one-leayed, bifid. Segments rounded, — aaa 
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