Semecarpus.] xlv. anacardiace^. 543 



•5 in. long, I in. wide; swollen peduncle cup-shaped, '25 in. long. 

 Hub. Open country, Selangor, Ulu Selangor (Ridley). Setul. 

 Distrib. Puket. 



(5) S. lucens King, I.e. 510. 



Tree 40 to 70 ft. tall, 10 to 15 in. through, glabrous. Leaves 

 elliptic, tip rounded or shortly abruptly acuminate, base rounded 

 or shortly cuneate, slightly obhque, edges thickened; nerves 10 

 to 16 pairs, broad elevate beneath yellow and reticulations con- 

 spicuous, 4 to 7-5 in. long, 2 to 3-25 in. wide ; petioles 75 to 2 in. 

 long. Panicles terminal lax, peduncled, 10 in. long; branches 

 slender, 4-5 in. long; branchlets -5 in. long. Flowers yellow 

 •15 in. across, pedicehed, glabrous except disc. Males, calyx cupular 

 flat, teeth 5 ovate acute. Petals 5 ovate-lanceolate acute. Females 

 larger, fewer on smaller panicles. Drupe obliquely ovoid, com- 

 pressed, rusty-puberulous, about -5 in. across. Hab. Hih forests, 

 Perak, Larut from below 100 to 3000 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 



15. DRACONTOMELUM, Bl. 



Trees, moderately large. Leaves unequally pinnate. Panicles 

 in terminal axils, long, much-branched. Flowers medium-sized 

 bisexual. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, sub-valvate. Disc large 

 cup-shaped crenulate. Stamens 10 at disc base. Ovary sessile, 

 5-celled; styles 5, connate at tips; ovules sohtary in cells. Drupe 

 globose, fleshy; stone hard, 2- to 5-celled. Seeds compressed. 

 About 5 species, tropical Asia and Polynesia. 



(i) D. mangiferum Bl. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 231, 

 fig. 42; Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 43; King, I.e. 513. 



A spreading tree, 30 to 100 ft. tah. Branches tomentose. 

 Leaves 12 to 20 in. long; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs, thinly coriaceous, 

 light green, elhptic-oblong acuminate, lower ones ovate-oblong, 

 shorter, glabrous except for the midrib, sometimes puberulous 

 beneath with tufts of hair in the nerve-axils ; nerves 9 to 12 pairs, 

 4 to 9 in. long, 175 to 275 in. wide ; petiolules '2 in. long. Panicles 

 2 ft. long or less, pubescent. Flowers -3 in. long, white. Stamens 

 brown. Drupe depressed-globose, i in. through, green. Hab. 

 Low ground by rivers, Malacca (Griffith, Maingay) ; Panchur; 

 Ayer Panas (Derry) ; Perak, Ulu Bubong and Chanderiang (Kunst- 

 ler). Pahang, Raub (Foxworthy). Temengoh, river-bank. Penang 

 Hill (Maingay) possibly planted here. Disihb. Indo-Malaya. 

 Native names: Poko Sakai; Bua Chan Kuang; Sangkuang. 

 Use : The fruit is eaten by Malays with fish. It may have been 

 planted in some of these locahties, but I think it is indigenous 

 in most localities given. 



