8&mecarpus.~\ XLVI. ANACARDIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 



ii. 83 ; Cor. PL i. t. 12 ; W. $ A. Prodr. i. 168 ; Wt. Ic. I. 558 ; Grdh. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 41 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 52 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 166 ; Brcmdis 

 For. Flor. 124 ; Wall. Cat. 8473. S. latifolius, Pers. (ex Marchand). Anar- 

 cardiiun latifolium, Lamk. HI. t. 208. A. officinarum, Gcertn. 



TROPICAL OUTER HIMALAYA, from Sirmore to Sikkim, ascending to 3500 ft. ; and 

 throughout the hotter parts of India, as far east as Assam (absent in the Eastern 

 Peninsula and Ceylon). DISTRIB. Eastern Archipelago and N. Australia. 



A moderate-sized dioecious deciduous tree, exuding a dark juice ; young parts 

 petioles leaves beneath and panicle clothed with a fine pale pubescence. Leaves 9-30 

 by 5-12 in., very coriaceous, flat, margin cartilaginous, rarely linear-oblong, usually 

 contracted below the middle; nerves 16-25 pairs, stout, slightly arched; petiole 

 1-2 in., rounded, not winged. Panicle equalling or shorter than the leaves, stout ; 

 branches spreading ; bracts lanceolate. Flowers \-^ in. diam., subsessile, fascicled. 

 Petals much longer than the calyx, oblong, greenish-white. Filaments subulate. 

 Drupe 1 in. long, obliquely ovoid or oblong, smooth, shining, black ; cup orange-red. 



VAR. cuneifolia ; DC. Prodr. ii. 62 ; leaves cuneate at the base often tomentose 

 "beneath. Tropical Himalaya, Khasia Mts., Behar, and the Concan. S. cuneifolia, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 86 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 41. 



2. S. microcarpa, Watt. Cat. 989; leaves large obovate or subpanduri- 

 form tip rounded base acute obtuse or rounded glabrous and opaque above 

 pale with fine subscabrid pubescence beneath, drupe in. 



BIRMA ; on the Irawaddy, Wattich. 



Very similar in habit and foliage to S. Anacardium, but the drupes are less than 

 half the size. Kurz's 8. albescens (see p. 35), which he describes as having the petals 

 valvate or subvalvate, a glabrous disk, pubescent ovary and 3 thick styles ; found in 

 the Moung forests, Pegu, by Dr. Brandis, may possibly be this. 



3. S. pubescens, Thwaites Enum. 77 ; leaves lanceolate finely acumi- 

 nate under surface and petiole velvety-tonientose nerves nearly straight, panicles 

 slender velvety, drupe ^ in. 



CEYLON, at Eatnapoora, Walker, Thwaites. 



A small tree (Thwaites}. Leaves 6-12 by 2-2| in., opaque and glabrous above 

 except the pubescent midrib, densely clothed with rusty brown tomentum beneath, 

 base acute or rounded ; nerves 16-20 pairs, somewhat arched; petiole ~-\ in. Panicle 

 with very spreading branches. Flowers glabrous. Dmpe oblong, slightly oblique, as 

 "broad as the short cup. 



4. S. Thwaitesii, Hook.f.^ leaves lanceolate finely acuminate under 

 surface and petiole laxly pubescent or glabrate nerves much arched, panicles 

 glabrate. 



CEYLON, at Morowe Corle, Thwaites. 



This, which is regarded by Thwaites as a glabrous form of S. pubescens, seems to 

 me to be at once distinguished not only by the different pubescence, but by the much 

 .arched nerves. 



** Leaves glabrous on "both surfaces. Panicles glabrous. 



5. S. travancorica, Bedd. Flor. Sylv. t. 232 ; leaves very large oblong- 

 or obovate- oblong thickly coriaceous, shining and reticiilate on both surfaces, 

 tip rounded, base rounded or acute, petiole 2 in. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Travancor Grhats, alt. 2-3000 ft., JBeddome. 



A very large tree. Leaves 12 by 56 in., occasionally lanceolate and acuminate, 

 very coriaceous, dark green and shining above, paler beneath ; nerves 16-18 pairs, 

 much reticulated beneath ; petiole 2 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, compound, 

 spreading, about equalling the leaves. Flowers dioecious, 5-6-merous. Calyx pubes- 



