Swntonia.] XLVI. ANACARDIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 27" 



Seng. 1870, ii. 75. Anauxanopetalum Schwenkii, Teysm. fy Binnend. in 

 Miquel Journ. i. 368. Astropetalum.2, Griffith, Notul iv. 415. 



MALACCA, Griffith: Maingay. DISTKIB. Sumatra. \. 



A tall tree ; branchlets rather slender. Leaves 3-5 in., usually obtusely acuminate, 

 rather thin ; margins hardly undulate ; nerves about 15-pairs ; petiole very slender, 2-2| 

 in. Panicles numerous from the upper axils, branched, peduncles and branches and 

 pedicels excessively slender and spreading. Flowers the smallest of the genus, when 

 first expanded, ^ in. diam., shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes orbicular, glabrous. Petals 

 oblong on expansion, very rapidly enlarging, finally 2^ in. long, linear, obtuse 

 coriaceous, veined. Drupe % in long, oblong, smooth. Cotyledons oblong, amygda- 

 loid ; radicle lateral, minute. Kurz refers to this Astropetalum 1 of Griffith's 

 Notulse, which, as it appears to me from Griffith's notes and specimens, is his original 

 Swintonia, to which he attached the MS. name of S.floribunda, but for which I have 

 adopted Kurz's S. Griffithii. The reference to " Cat. Hort. Begor." is taken from 

 Kurz. I do not find the name in the edition of that work at Kew. 



4. S. spicifera, Hook.f. ; leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate tip rounded 

 base cuneate, panicles longer than the leaves branches strict, flowers forming 

 pubescent spikelets at the tips of the branchlets. 



PENANG ? Maingay. 



A lofty thick-stemmed tree (Maingay). Leaves 3|-7 by l-2 in., coriaceous, upper 

 surface shining with very obscure nerves, under glaucous with 1215 pairs of very 

 slender nerves, reticulation very indistinct ; petiole f -1 in. Panicles subcorymbose, 

 sometimes leafy, repeatedly trichotomously forked; branches angular, strict, suberect, 

 glabrous, articulate, ultimate divisions | in., stout, clothed with imbricating small 

 bracts and flowers; rachis with close-set deep scars; bracts orbicular, concave, 

 pubescent. Flowers in. diam. when first expanded, apparently polygamous, most of 

 them males and caducous ; pedicel very short. Calyx hemispheric, 5-lobed, lobes 

 orbicular, pubescent. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, hoary, eventually 1-2| in., reflexed, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous in fruit. Stamens 5, filaments subulate ; anthers 

 oblong. Disk confluent with the thickened base of the filament in the male. Drupe 

 | in. long, obliquely ovoid, smooth ; pericarp thin. Cotyledons amygdaloid. I 

 assume this to be a Penang plant from the tickets and writing being of the same kind 

 as is attached to Maingay' s other Penang plants. A very different species from the 

 rest, the imbricating flowers on the thick tips of the branchlets of the panicle is a 

 curious character. 



9. SOLENOCARFITS, Wt. & Arn. 



A tree. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, odd-pinnate ; leaflets 

 opposite, glabrous, crenulate. Panicles terminal. Floivers small, hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx small, 5-toothed, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, ovate, valvate. Disk 

 broad, annular. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disk. Ovary sessile, 

 1-celled, style clavate, stigma obliquely truncate ; ovule 1, pendulous from 

 the top of the cell. Drupe small, obliquely oblong, truncate, compressed; 

 pericarp cellular, full of oil. Stone hard. Seed linear, compressed ; cotyledons 

 linear, plano-convex ; radicle very short, superior. 



1. S. indica, Wt. $ Arn. Prodr. i. 171 ; Beddome Fl. 8ylv. t. 233 ; Anal. 

 Gen. 79. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Malabar and Travancor, ascending to 2500 ft. on the 

 Anamally hills, Beddome. 



Leaves 6-12 in.; petiole angled, slender, pubescent; leaflets 4-6-pairs, 2-4 in., 

 subopposite, sessile, except the terminal, which is long-petiolulate, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate ; base obliquely cordate, quite entire or remotely crenate, rather 

 coriaceous, glabrous, nerves 8-1 0-pairs, faint. Panicles much branched ; branches erect,. 



