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. Pe^a/s 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 w ith the large anther of the long fila- 

 ment. Fruit as described and figured, by Goert. vol. 1. 

 J 92. t. 40. 



2. A. dubium. R. 



A native of Sumatra, and said to be a large and beau- 

 tiful tree. 



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 

 a few, alternate, compound, and simple corymbiferous 

 ramifications. Flowers numerous and small. Calyx 

 inferior, one-leaved, bifid. Segments rounded. Petals 



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