AXACARDIACEjE. 551 



S. suhracejiosus, Viz. Proine. 



A siinpk'-stcraraed shrub with a larjre suhtenaiieau trunk. Leaves chartaccous, 

 minutely pubescent beneath and ghibresceut. Panicles densely pubcrulous. Kut 

 only 3-4 lines long. 



The timber of this genus is worthless, being white and perishable, but the 

 nuts are used for marking clothes by washermen, the colour being fixed by lime 

 ■water. The nuts are also used as mordants. The acrid juice of the nut and an oil 

 prepared from it are used externally by natives to alleviate rheumatic pains, by 

 rubbing in over the part affected. 



Anacaudium, lioxhurgh. 



Petah imbricate in bud. Stamens 8 to 10, all or few of them anther-bearing. 

 S(i/le filiform. 2'orus stalk-like. 



A. occiDESTAXE, L. E.'T. Beach forests of Chittagong, Tenasscrim 



and the Andamans. 

 Thi-ho-thayet. Cashew nut-tree. 



Xut kidney-shaped, seated on a fleshy glabrous orange-coloured edible Tiypocarp 

 of the size of a small pear. The bark exudes an astringent pellucid gum, and by in- 

 cision, a juice which forms an indelible ink. The pericarp of the nuts yields an acrid, 

 vesioating oil, and the nuts themselves by expression a bland edible one. When 

 roasted, the nuts arc excellent. 



+ + Calyx unchanged in fruit. Ovules pendulous from a basal funicle. 



BccHA^-AxiA, Roxlurgh. 



Calyx 3-5-toothed. Stamens 10. Carpels 5 or 6, of which one only fertile. 

 Styles as many, short. 



* Leaves and panicles tomenfosc or pubescent. 

 ° Leaves tomentose or pubescent on both sides, larye. 



B. LATii'Oi.iA, Roxb. All over Burma. 



Len-lwon. Lon-bo (Kurz). 



Panicles stout and stiff. Flowers 2 lines across, sessile and crowded. The seeds 

 are good eating, especially when roasted, also the fresh fruit. 



B. LAXiFi.oRA, Kz. Sfartaban and Pegu. 



Panicles slender, grey pubescent. Flowers barely a line in diameter, j)ediccllcd. 



* * Leaves glabrous and more or less glossy, usually fuscesccnt in drying. 

 X Panicles rusty pubcrulous. 

 B. GLABRA, Wall. Maulmaiu. 



Petiole i inch long. Flowers a line across. Flowers shortlj" pedicelled, crowded. 



XX Panicles quite glabrous. Flowers pedicelled. 



B. AKBORESCENs, Bl. E.T. Tcuasscrim. 



B. lucida, Bl. 



B. petiolaris and B. Bancana, Miq. 

 B. subobovata. Griff. 

 B. laxijlora, Kz. J.A.S.B. ii. 1872, p. 301. 



Leaves equally decurrent at the base. Pedicels very slender. Petals a line long, 

 reflexed. Panicles longer than the leaves. 



B. AcrjfiNATA, Wall. F.T. Andamans and Tenasserim. 



Leaves equally decurrent at the base. Pedicels short and stout. Petals 2-3 

 lines long, erect. Panicles as long as or longer than the leaves. 



