Semecarpus. pentandria digynia. 83* 



SEMECARPUS. Scherh. gen. n. 501. 



Crt/yx five-parted. CoroZ five-petalled. Germ one-cell- 

 ed, one-seeded, attachment superior. Nut superior, cor- 

 date, cellular, one-seeded, sittinj^ on a large, fleshy pear- 

 shaped receptacle. Embryo inverse without perisperni. 



1. S. Anacardium. Corom. pi. 1. No. 12. Willd. 1. It76. 



Polygamous. Leaves cuneiform, downy underneath. 

 Panicles terminal. 



Sans. Arifshkara, also Bhela. 



Beng. Bhela, Bhola-twki, or Bela-twki. 



Eng. Marking Nut. 



Teling. Nella-jedee. 



Anacardium of the Materia Medica. 



A tree, bearing male or male-hermaphrodite flowers on 

 one and hermaphrodite on another ; which circumstance 

 might remove it from the fifth, to the twenty-third class 

 of the Linnasan system. It is a native of all the moun- 

 tainous parts of India; flowering time from May to Au- 

 gust. Seed ripe in January and February. 



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 been 

 omitted by so accurate a describer as the Doctor was. 



Trunk straight, covered with grey, scabrous bark, the 

 bark of the younger parts smooth, light ash-coloured, 

 its inner substance contains in crevices, a quantity of 

 white, soft, almost insipid gum. Branchlefs numerous, 

 spreading, ieare.s about the extremities of thebranchlets, 

 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 long and from four to eight broad. Pe- 

 Holes one and a half, or two inches long, half round. Pa- 



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