168 - TEREBINTHACE. ANACARDHE 
or leafy.— Trees or shrubs, with a resinous, gummy, caustic, or milky 
juice. Leaves alternate, not dotted, without stipules. 
I. ANACARDIUM. Rotth—Cassuvium, Lam. ill. t. 322. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, deciduous ; segments erect : 
sestivation imbricative. Petals 5, linear, acuminated, recurved. Torus filling 
up nearly the whole tube of the calyx, and combining the bases of the sta- 
mens and petals. Stamens about 9 or 10, 1-4 of them in the male flowers 
fertile, and twice as long as the others, which are usually sterile: filaments 
connate at the base and with the base of the petals. Ovary free, sessile, ob- 
lique, 1-celled. Style solitary, somewhat on one side, filiform, curved. 
Fruit compressed, somewhat coriaceous, on the top of the enlarged elevated 
stalk-like pyriform torus : pericarp containing in its substance cells full of an 
acrid juice. Seed erect. Cotyledons semi-lunate, fleshy, plano-convex. Ra- 
dicle curved upwards from the base of the cotyledons.—Trees. Leaves 
simple, entire and quite entire, feather-nerved, petioled. Panicle terminal, - 
corymbose, branched, spreading. Flowers with bracteoles at the base of the 
pedicels, male and bisexual mixed together. . 
7522. (1) A. occidentale (Linn. :) leaves oval, rounded or slightly emargi- 
nate at the apex, narrower but obtuse at the base: bracteoles broadly ovate, 
acuminated: one stamen longer than the others: fruit sessile on the apex of 
the torus, reniform.— D.C. prod. 2. p. 62 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 271; Roxb. fl. Ind. 
2. p. 8312; Wal! L. n. 990; Wight! cat. n. 524.—Acajuba occidentalis, 
Gaertn. fr. t. 40. f. 2.— Cassuvium pomiferum, Lam.— Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 54; 
Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 69. 
II. SEMECARPUS, Linn.—Anacardium, Lam. ill. t. 208 ; Gaertn. fr. t. 40. 
Flowers polygamous-dicecious. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, inserted under 
the margin of the disk, sessile, very spreading: sestivation imbricative. Sta- 
mens 5, inserted under the margin of the disk, equal, distinct. Torus a cup- 
shaped disk. Ovary free, sessile, 1-celled. Styles 3 from the apex of the 
ovary. Stigmas clavate, retuse. Fruit somewhat cordate, sessile on the icr 
larged elevated incrassated depressed or cup-shaped or turbinate torus ; peri- 
carp hard and thick, containing between the inner and outer lamina cells full 
of a corrosive resinous juice. Seed suspended. Cotyledons thick, fleshy, 
plano-convex. Radicle Superior, minute, concealed within the apex of the 
cotyledons.—Trees, Leaves simple, entire and quite entire, Panicles ter- 
minal, branched, bracteolated. 
523. (1) S. Anacardium (Linn. :) leaves cuneate-obovate, rounded at the 
apex, whitish beneath but scarcely downy: enlarged torus turbinate: 
sessile, cordate-ovate, with a slight notch on one side under the apex. 
fru 2. p. 02 (y) Spr. syst. 1. p. 935; Rozb. Cor. 1. t. 12: fi. Ind. 2. p. 833 
Wight ! cat. n. 523.—8. cuneifolium, Wall. L, n. 986. c.—Anacardium latifo- 
lium, Lam. enc. meth. 1. p. 139 ; ill. t. 208. fig. i, b—A. officinarum, Gertn. 
S. cuneifolium, Roxb., has the leaves tomentose beneath, and the nut with 
the one side nearly straight while the other is curved. Of it, Dr Roxburg 
Says that it is “ a native of the range of mountains that bounds Hindostan 
on the north ;" and adds, that the heat of Bengal is * too great for this SP" — — 
cies:” whence we have referred Wall. L. 986. c (from Heyne's herbarium); ae 
although we have not seen specimens, to S. anacardium, that species not 
g otherwise noticed in Wallich's List. 3 
