28 XLVI. ANACARDIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Tapiricb. 



patent, pubescent, at length glabrate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, -| in. diam. Drupe 

 5- in. long, pedicelled. 



10. TAFZRZA, Juss. 



Erect or scandent shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets 

 numerous, subopposite, serrate. Panicles axillary and terminal. Flowers small, 

 green, polygamous. Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, 

 small, oblong, imbricate. Disk broad, 5-lobed. Stamens 10, inserted at the 

 base of the disk ; anthers globose. Ovary in the g immersed in the disk, 4-5- 

 lobed, with 4-5 styles ; in the <j> ovoid, more free, 1-celled ; style short, conic, 

 stigma simple ; ovule pendulous from the top of the cell. Drupe obliquely ob- 

 long, fleshy ; stone rugose, crustaceous. Seed oblong, testa membranous ; coty- 

 ledons large, plano-convex ; radicle superior. DISTEIB. Species 8 or 10, chiefly 

 American. 



1. T. hirsuta, Hookf. in Benth fy Hook.f. Gen. Plant, i. 423; Kobergia 

 hirsuta, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 455 ; Pegia nitida, Caleb, in Trans, Linn. Soc. xv. 

 364 ; Phlebochiton, Wall, in Trans. Med. $ Phys. Soc. Calc. vii. 230 ; P. ex- 

 tensum, Cat. 8499. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN tropical HIMALAYA, from Nipal and Sikkim, ascending to 

 4000 ft. ; to Bhotan, Griffith. ASSAM, SILHET, and CHITTAGONG. 



A scandent shrub, more or less clothed with soft villous tomentum. Leaves 812 

 in. ; petiole villous, slender; leaflets petiolulate, 5-7 pairs, 1-4 in., oblong, acuminate, 

 membranous, rarely quite entire, base cordate. Panicles villous; bracts ovate. 

 Flowers ~ in. diam., pale, sweet-scented. Drupe the size of a currant, black ; flesh 

 next the stone cellular and full of viscid brown balsam. 



11. FENTASFADON, Hook. f. 



Trees. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite subsessile, quite entire. Pa- 

 nicles axillary, peduncled, branched, branchlets very slender. Flowers pedicelled, 

 minute, hermaphrodite. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, oblong-obovate, 

 .strongly imbricate. Stamens 5, minute, inserted at the base of the disk, alter- 

 nate with 5 short subulate staminodes which are free or adnate to the side of the 

 disk, filaments short, broadly subulate ; anthers didymous. Disk cupular, ob- 

 scurely 10-lobed. Ovary seated on the disk, very minute, 1-celled, contracted into 

 .a stout short style, stigma globose or obliquely oblong, large ; ovule 1, pendulous 

 from the upper part of the cavity. 



1. F. ? velutinus, Hook. f. ; petioles leaflets beneath and panicles 

 clothed with velvety tomentum. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Branchlets stout, woody, cylindric, covered with close-set scars of fallen leaves, tips 

 velvety. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches ; petiole 6-10 in. stout, cylindric, 

 velvety, bearing no leaflets on the lower third or fourth ; leaflets 2-3| in. subsessile 

 except the petiolulate terminal one, oblong, acute or acuminate, base rather oblique 

 and rounded, thinly coriaceous, opaque above with pubescent midrib, thickly tomen- 

 tose beneath ; nerves 12-14 pairs, slender, arched. Panicles usually shorter than the 

 leaves, triangular, densely velvety, except the flowers, peduncle 2-4 in. ; branchlets 

 very numerous, erecto-patent, strict, very slender indeed, much divided and spread- 

 ing. Flowers in. diam. on short glabrous pedicels ; bracts minute. Calyx lobes 

 ovate. Petals spreading, minutely puberulous. Stamens and Ovary very minute, as 

 compared to the petals. Drupe 1 in. long, rather scurfy outside, compressed, ovoid, 

 obliquely beaked, 1-celled ; pericarp cellular and full of black varnish, endocarp thin. 



