80 pENTANDRiA DiGYNiA. HoUgama. 



stigma large, convex. Capsules berried, siliquosei- subcy- 

 lindric, about as thick as a goose quill, and nearly two 

 inches long, one-celled, two-valved. 5eeds a few ; reni- 

 form, attached, as in the germ. 



HOLIGARNA. R. 



Polygamous. Ca/yji: five-toothed. Pe/«/s five, germ 

 one-celled ; ovula single, attachment lateral. Berry infe- 

 rior, one-seeded. Embryo transverse, without perisperra. 



1. H. longifoUa. R. 



Cattu-tsjeru, or Kattou-tjeroe. Rheed. Mai 4. p. 19 ^9. 



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 

 Chittagong, where it blossoms in January. Seed ripe in 

 May and June. 



Dr. Buchanan first found the male tree in Chittagong, 

 and some years after found the female hermaphrodite in 

 Malabar, and gave it the name Holigariia, from its ap- 

 pellation in the language of Kurnata. He thinks it is the 

 variety called Bibo of the Cattu-tsjeru, Rheed. Mai. 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 Cattu-tsjeroe to be this very tree, and his Bibo, 

 or Tsjeeroo, 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. In its 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- 



