112 ANACARDIACEJ:. [Semecarpus, 



it ; it is not used. The ripe fruit is much used ; the fleshy cup is eaten, but is best 

 either dry or roasted. The pericarp contains an acrid juice which is universally used 

 in India for marking ink and in medicine. The ink is improved by the addition of 

 lime water. The green fruit is pounded and made into bird-lime. 



ibs. 



C 1157. Ahiri Reserve, Central Provinces 44 



C 2746. Moharli 40 



E 578. Kookloong Forest, Darjeeling Terai 39 



E 627. Bamunpokri 30 



E 2341. 33 



The Ahiri specimen, C 1157, has pores joined by irregularly-shaped soft tissue across 

 the medullary rays, and has a harder and closer-grained wood than the Darjeeling 

 specimens ; the bark is, however, that of 8. Anacardium, and there is no reason to 

 doubt its identity. The specimens from Darjeeling are marked by the absence of 

 the lines of softer tissue joining the pores, and it may be suggested for investigation 

 whether they do not come from a different species of Semecarpus. 



11. DRIMYCARPUS, Hook. f. 



1. D. racemosus, Hook, f . ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 36; Kurzi. 314; 

 Gamble 26. Holigarna racemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 82. Vern. Kagi, 

 Nep. ; Brong, Lepcha ; Telsur, Beng. ; Amdali, Ass. ; Chengane, 

 sangaipru, sangryn, Magh ; Amjour, Sylhet. 



A large evergreen tree. Wood greyish yellow, hard, close-grained. 

 Pores large and moderate-sized, sometimes subdivided, each pore in a 

 narrow white ring. Medullary rays short, moderately broad, uniform 

 and equidistant, joined by innumerable faint, transverse lines. 



Eastern Himalaya from 2,000 to 6,000 feet, Khasia hiUs and Sylhet to Chitta- 

 gong, Pegu. 



Weight, 61 Ibs. per cubic foot. Wood used occasionally in Assam for canoes and 

 planking ; in Chittagong for boats, for which it is one of the woods most employed. 

 Major Lewin says that boats 50 feet long and 9 feet in girth are sometimes cut. 



Ibs. 

 E 722. Chittagong ... .... 61 



12. HOLIGARNA, Ham. 



Seven species. H. Arnottiana, Hook. f. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 36. (H. longifolia, 

 Wt. and Arn. ; Beddome t. 167). Vern. Kagira, kutngeri, Kan. ; Hulgeri, Bombay, 

 is a large tree of the Western Ghats, where also are found H. ferruginea, Marchand. 

 S. Grahamii, Hook. f. (Semecarpus Grahami, Wight; Beddome Ixxix.) and H. 

 Beddomei, Hook. f. ; H. Helferi, Hook. f. ; Kurzi. 315 and H. albicans, Hook, f., are 

 trees of Burma. 



1. H. longifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 80; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 37. 

 Vern. Barola, Beng. ; Khreik, Magh. 



Wood grey with yellowish streaks, soft. Pores moderately large, 

 sometimes subdivided, uniform, scanty, prominent as dark lines on a 

 vertical section. Medullary rays fine, white, short, equidistant. 



Chittngong and Burma. 



Wood not used. It, like all the other species, gives a black acrid exudation which 

 raises blisters and is much dreaded by the hill people. 

 E 3287. llinkheong Forest, Chittagong. 



13. SPONDIAS, Linn. 



Contains 3 species, including, besides the one described, S. nt'iimhmttt. Koxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 453, of South India : and S. a.nUaris. K,, x b. Fl. Ind. ii. -15.% of 



