526 XLV. ANACARDiACE^. [Mungifera. 



with a thickened ridge at base. Stamen i ; staminodes very small. 

 Style very long, filiform. Hab. Malacca (Maingay). Only his 

 specimens known. 



4. ANACARDIUM, Rottb. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate simple, coriaceous. Panicle 

 terminal. Flowers medium-size. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes 

 narrow. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate. Disc filling calyx-tube. 

 Stamens 8 to 10; filaments connate, adnate to disc. Ovary 

 oblique-ovoid; style filiform, excentric; ovule i. Nut reniform 

 on a large fleshy pear-shaped body formed of disc and top of 

 peduncle. Seed reniform. A few American species. 



(i) A. occidentale Limi. Sp. PI. 548; King, I.e. 479. 



Straggling low tree about 20 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous, obovate, 

 blunt or refuse, base cuneate; nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 4 to 9 in. 

 long, 3 to 5 in. wide; petioles "5 to 75 in. long. Panicle 6 or 8 in. 

 long, branched, puberulous. Flowers '5 in. long, white turning 

 pink. Fruit about i in. long, grey; peduncle 4 in. long, 2 in. wide 

 at top in good fruit, usually very much smaller in the wild form, 

 yellow, flushed pink. Hah. Thoroughly established in sandy spots 

 by the sea. Singapore. Pahang River. Tringganu. Setul. Native 

 names: The Cashew-nut; Bua Gajus; Janggus; Kaju; Jambu 

 Monyet. 



It is rarely, if ever, cultivated now here, but appears to have been intro- 

 duced from South America in the sixteenth century, and has run wild in 

 sandy places. The peduncle and kernel of seed are eaten. 



5. GLUTA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves oblong, simple. Panicles in terminal 

 axils. Flowers medium-size, white or pink, bisexual. Calyx 

 spathaceous, splitting irregularly, caducous. Petals 4 to 6, im- 

 bricate. Disc elongate. Stamens 4 to 6, on disc. Ovary sessile 

 or stipitate, oblique, i-celled; style lateral. Stigma simple. 

 Drupe large or small, usually fleshy, brown and tubercled or smooth 

 very resinous. About 6 species, Burmese and Malayan. Very 

 poisonous trees, latex clear becoming varntsh-like black and pro- 

 ducing in many people a severe erysipelas-like poisoning. (See 

 Gimlette, Malay Poisons, p. 47, Ridley, Malay Medical Journal, 

 ix. 7.) 



Petals four times as long as the calyx, white; tree . (i) G. Bcnghas 

 Petals twice as long as calyx. 



Leaves broad, often cordate at base; shrub; fruit 



brown, warty . . . , . . (2) G. COarctata 



Leaves narrowed to base. 



Leaves 3 by i"25 in.; panicle dense; fruit globose, 



black (3) G. lanceolata 



Leaves 5*5 by 2-5 in. or less ; fruit oblong flattened, 



black (4) G. elegans 



