260 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Mangifera. 



of the branches ; the flowers in dense terminal panicles. 

 Cultivated for its edible, very important fruit, which is 

 eaten fresh, or made into preserves or pickles. Bark rough, 

 dark grey ; wood grey, often streaked, moderately hard, 

 used for planking, packing cases, boats, and other purposes. 

 Vern. Hind. Am. ; TJr. Ambo ; Mar. Ambi ; Tcnn. Mail ; Tel. 

 Mamadi; Kan. Mavu. 



3. Anacardium, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, entire; 

 stipules 0. Flowers small, polygamous, in terminal bracteate 

 panicles. Calyx 5-partite ; segments erect, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Pet ah 5, linear lanceolate, recurved, imbricate. Disk filling the 

 base of the calyx, erect. Stamens 8-10, all fertile or some sterile, 

 one usually longer than the others ; filaments connate at the base 

 and adnate to the disk. Ovary obovoid or obcordate, 1-celled ; 

 style filiform, excentric; stigma minute; ovule solitary, ascending 

 from a lateral funicle. Fruit a reniform nut seated on a large 

 pyriform fleshy body formed of the enlarged disk and top of 

 the peduncle ; pericarp cellular and full of oil. Seed reniform, 

 ascending ; testa membranous, adherent ; albumen ; cotyledons 

 semilunar, radicle short, curved upwards. 



ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALS, Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 20; W. & A. 

 168; Bedd. Fl. t. 103. 



Native of America, cultivated and run wild, especially on 

 the sea coast. The Cashew-nut. 



A small tree with short thick trunk, obovate rather large 

 leaves, flowers yellow streaked with pink, in terminal, 

 prominently bracteate, panicles and a greenish-grey nut on 

 a yellow or scarlet fleshy peduncle. Wood reddish-brown, 

 of little use. The nuts are roasted and the kernels eaten 

 for dessert, the peduncles are sometimes eaten but are 

 astringent. The pericarp gives an acrid caustic oil, Vern. 

 Hind. Kaju ; Tel. Jidi mamidi ; Tarn. Kola mavu; Kan. 

 Godambe ; Mai. Paring! mavu. 



4. Gluta, Linn. 



Evergreen trees, with acrid resinous juice. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, coriaceous, crowded at the ends of the branches. 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary or terminal panicles, 



