320 127- ANACARDIACEAE 



2. Stamen i. Filament broad. Calyx 4-lobed. Petals 4. Disc one-sided. 



Leaves lanceolate. — Species 2. West Africa. The fruits are edible. 



(Under Mangifera L.) Fegimanra Pierre 



Stamens 5 — 10, but usually i only fertile. Petals 5 3 



3. Fertile stamens 5. Calyx bursting irregularly. — Species i. Madagascar. 



The juice is used for preparing varnishes and medicaments. Gluta L. 



Fertile stamen i, usually accompanied by 4 or 9 sterile ones, which bear 



small anthers. Calyx 5-partite 4 



4. Stamens and staminodes together 5. Disc cushion-shaped. Fruit egg- 



shaped, with a fleshy pericarp and a slightly thickened stalk. Leaves 

 lanceolate. — Species i {M. indica L., mango-tree). Cultivated in the 

 tropics. Yields timber, gum, tanning and dyeing materials, edible 

 fruits from which a spirituous drink is prepared, starch from the seeds, 



and medicaments Mangifera Burm. 



Stamens and staminodes together 10. Disc indistinct. Fruit kidney- 

 shaped, with a resinous pericarp and a much thickened, fleshy stalk. 

 Leaves obovate. — Species t (.4. occidentale L., cashew-tree). Culti- 

 vated in the tropics. Yields timber, gum, tanning and dyeing materials, 

 oil, vermin-poison, edible seeds and fruit-stalks from which vinegar and 

 brandy are prepared, and medicaments Anacardium L. 



5. (i.) Ovary with i fertile cell and sometimes i — 2 empty and usually 



rudimentary ones, rarely {Protorhits) with 3 fertile cells ; in this case 

 stamens 5 and leaves simple. [Tribe RHOIDEAE.] ..... 6 

 Ovary with 3 — 5 fertile cells. Stamens 6 — 15 and leaves compound, 

 rareh' stamens 5 and leaves simple, but then ovary-cells and styles 5. 

 [Tribe SPONDIEAE.] 20 



6. Perianth simple, consisting of i — 2 segments in the male, of 2 — 5 in the 



female flowers. Stamens 3 — 5. Stjde 3-cleft. Leaves compound. — 

 Species 5, one of them only cultivated. North Africa and northern East 

 Africa. They yield timber, tanning and dyeing materials, resins (mastic 

 and turpentine) which are used industrially, in medicine, as fumigatories, 

 masticatories, or condiments, and for preparing spirituous drinks, also 

 edible oily fruits and seeds (pistachio-nuts) and various medicaments. 



Pistacia L. 



Perianth consisting of a calyx and a corolla 7 



7: Style I, undivided, rarely {Micro nyc/iia) shortly cleft at the top, or a 

 slightly lobed sessile stigma 8 



Styles 3, free or united at the base, sometimes recurved and adnate to the 

 ovary, or 3 free sessile stigmas 13 



8. Leaves simple, undivided 9 



Leaves compound, pinnate 11 



9. Stamens 6 — 10, twice as many as the petals. Ovary with i fertile and i 



sterile cell. Style absent. Trees with small flowers. — Species 2. 



Madagascar and Seychelles Campnosperma Thwait. 



Stamens 4—5, as many as the petals. Ovary i-celled. St3'le present . 10 



