326 AnacardiaceeB. {Campnosperma. 



cal.-teeth shallow; pet. oblong, obtuse; ov. glabrous; drupe 

 I in. wide, fig-like, longitudinally striate, purple, pulp copious. 



Moist region up to 3000 ft.; common. Fl. March; greenish-white. 



Also in West Peninsular India. 



Wood yellowish, rather heavy, smooth-grained, easily splitting. 



6. CAMPNOSPERMA, Thw. 



Trees ; 1. simple, entire ; fl. minute, bisexual, in axillary 

 racemes; cal. deeply 3-fid, persistent ; pet. 3 ; stam. 6, inserted 

 outside and below disk ; disk large, cup-shaped, fleshy ; ov. 

 I -celled, ovule pendulous from apex, style nearly absent, 

 stigma large, dilated, lobed ; drupe ovoid, stone bony, with a 

 vertical process projecting into the upper half of the cavity; 

 seed curved round the process, cotyledons flat, oblong. — Sp. 4; 

 all in Fl. B. hid., but none in Peninsular India. 



C. zeylanicum, Thw. in Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 65 (1854). 

 Arldda, S. 



Engler, Mon. 318. Thw. Enum. 78. C. P. 246. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 41. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. t. i, A. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 168. 



A moderate-sized or large tree, with a very straight erect 

 trunk, bark roughish, not furrowed, whitish- or yellowish-grey, 

 branchlets with conspicuous leaf- scars, young parts with 

 ferrugineous scales ; 1. crowded, 5-9 in., oval or obovate-oval, 

 attenuate into very short petiole, rounded, often emarginate 

 at apex, entire, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, paler, 

 reticulated and with minute, scattered, rufous scales beneath ; 

 fl. very small, shortly pedicellate, in erect, axillary, spicate 

 racemes shorter than the 1., peduncle stout, glabrous ; cal.- 

 segm. triangular; pet. erect, broadly triangular, acute; ov. free, 

 but enclosed in cupular disk ; drupe | in., apiculate, pulpy, 

 purple. 



Moist low country, below 1500ft.; rather rare. Singhe Rajah Forest; 

 Hewesse ; about Ratnapura ; Ambagamuwa ; Veddagalle ; Kuruwila 

 Korale, abundant. Fl. March ; white. 



Endemic. 



A handsome tree with fine dark foliage. Attains a great height in 

 Kuruwita Korale, and 6 or 7 ft. in circumference. In a few forests this is 

 a gregarious tree. 



Wood white, smooth, rather light and soft, coarse-grained, of little 

 use except for tea-bo.\es, for which it is said to be very good. 



7. SPOMDZAS, L. 



Deciduous trees ; 1. imparipinnate ; fl. polygamous, in 

 terminal panicles; cal. 5-fid, deciduous; pet. 5, valvate ; 



