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Engler, in DC. Monogr. Plian. v. 4, p. 219 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 1, p. 23:2. — Flowers: Jau.-Mar. VER>r, Kdju; Hijuli-badam ; Geru 

 nidvu. 



The Caahewnut tree, a native of Tropical America, naturalized and cultivated in 

 India, especially near the coast. Konkan : Sfocksl; Malabar and Parel hills (Bom- 

 bay), Graham; Salsette, coiiiinon, Graham; Southern Konkan, DaLell ^- Gibson; 

 Ratnagiri, C'uokel, Kanitkarl; Viugorla, Ritchie, 142!; Wari Country, Balzell S[ 

 Gibson. S. M. Gountky : Dharwar, Talhot. 



Tlie nuts are eaten roasted and are much esteemed. The plant is also used in 

 native medicine. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



The fruit is very curious, the nut appearing to be outside it, an error into which 

 Graham and Dalzell & Gibson have fallen. What is regarded by them as tlie fruit 

 is, however, tlie enlarged pedicel and disk on which the nut is seated. 



4. BUCHANANIA, Spreng. in Schrader, Journ. v. 4 

 (1801) p. 234. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, coriaceous, quite entire. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, small, white, in terminal and axillary branched 

 panicles. Calyx short, obtusely 3-5-toothed or -lobed, persistent, im- 

 bricate. Petals 4-5, oblong, imbricate, at length recurved. Disk 

 orbicular, 5-crenate. Stamens 8-10, free, inserted at the base of the 

 disk. Carpels 5-6, free, seated in the cavity of the disk, one fertile, 

 the others imperfect; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle ; style 

 short ; stigma truncate. Drupe small, scantily fleshy ; s^one crustaceous 

 or bony, 2-valved. Seed gibbous, acute at one end ; cotyledons thick ; 

 radicle superior. — Distrtb. Tropical Asia, Australia and the Pacilic 

 Islands ; species about 25, 



Leaves broadly oblong, more or less villous beneath ; panicles 



pilose 1. B. Lanzan. 



Leaves narrowly oblong, glabrous beneath ; panicles glabrous . 2. B. angiistifoUa. 



1. Buchanania Lanzan, Sprewj. in Sclirader, Journ. v. 4 (1801) 

 p. 234. A tree 40-50 ft. high, with straight trunk ; young branches 

 clothed with silky hairs. Leaves thickly eoriac.^ous, 5-10 by 2|-5 in., 

 broadly oblong, obtuse, sometimes emarginate, glabrescent above, more 

 or less villous beneath, reticulately veined, the nerves and veins im- 

 pressed on the upper surface, base rounded ; main nerves 10-20 pairs ; 

 petioles about | in. long. Flowers small, sessile, greenish white, iu 

 terminal and axillary pyramidal ferrugineo-pilose panicles which are 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracts small, caducous. Calyx-lobes short, 

 broadly ovate, ciliate. Petals y^j in. long, ovate-oblong, subacute. Disk 

 fleshy. Stamens 10, a little shorter than the petals ; filaments flattened ; 

 anthers about as long as the filaments. Ovaries : 1 perfect, conical; 

 villous, the other 4 reduced to cylindrical filaments. Drupes obliquely 

 lentiform, ^-| in. in the long diameter, black ; stone hard, 2-valved, 

 Buchanania latifolin, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 32 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. 1. 

 v. 2, p. 23 ; Grab. Cat. p. 41 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 52 ; Bedd. Flor, Sylvat. 

 1. 165; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 62; Woodr. in Journ, Bomb. Nat.v. 11 

 (1897) p. 273 ; Engler, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 4, p. 182 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 544. — Flowers : Jan.-Mar. Vern. Char ; Fiyal. 



The specific name Lanzan is derived from the native Birmese name, 

 and was given to the plant by Sprengel in 1800-1801. The name is 

 therefore prior to that given by Roxburgh (1814), and though not as 



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