266 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Nothopegia. 



6. NOTHOPEGIA AUREO-FULVA, Bedd. ; F. B. I. ii. 40. 



W. Ghats, in hills of Courtallum in Timievelly (Beddome). 



10. Semecarpus, Linn. f. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous ; stipules 0. 

 Flowers small, polygamous or dioecious, in terminal rarely 

 axillary panicles, the <$ flowers smaller than the ? or <$ . Calyx 

 usually 5-, sometimes 3-lobed, the segments deciduous. Petals 5, 

 rarely 3, ovate or oblong-ovate, imbricate. Disk broad, 

 annular. Stamens inserted below the disk; filaments filiform, 

 in (J flowers as long as or longer than the petals, in <$ flowers 

 short ; anthers usually oblong, in $ flowers small and imperfect. 

 Ovary in flowers rudimentary or 0, in ? or $ flowers superior, 

 1-celled ; styles 3, divergent ; stigmas capitate or bilobed, rather 

 large; ovule pendulous from a basal funicle. Fruit an oblong 

 or subglobose oblique drupe seated on a fleshy receptacle (hypo- 

 carp) formed of the accrescent disk and calyx-base; pericarp 

 thick, with cavities filled with an acrid resin. Seed pendulous ; 

 testa membranous or subcoriaceous ; cotyledons plano-convex ; 

 radicle superior. 

 Leaves and inflorescence pubescent ; ovary densely villous : 



Petals 5 in all flowers; leaves obovate -oblong, obtuse at apex, 

 rounded at base, glaucous reticulate and more or less hairy 

 beneath, up to 2 ft. long, 1 ft. broad ; drupe black, '75 in. long, 



on an orange hypocarp as long as the drupe 1. Anacardium. 



Leaves and inflorescence glabrous ; ovary glabrous or with a few 

 scattered hairs : 



Petals 5 in all flowers ; leaves thick, obovate-oblong, obtuse at 

 apex, usually acute at base, dark green reticulate and glabrous 

 beneath, up to 20 in. long, 6 in. broad ; drupe very oblique, black, 



1 in. long, on a short broad furrowed hypocarp 2. travancorica. 



Petals 3 sometimes 4 in flowers, 5 in ; leaves thin, oblaiiceo- 

 late, auricled at base, acuminate at apex, up to 15 in. long, 3 in. 

 broad ; drupe oblique, black, '5 in. long, 011 a short broad cuplike 

 hypocarp 3. auriculata. 



J. SEMECARPUS ANACARDIUM, Linn, f . ; F. B. I. ii. 30 ; W. & A. 

 168; Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 12; Wt. Ic. t. 558; Bedd. Fl. t. 166. 

 Deciduous forests in all forest Districts. The Marking- 

 nut tree. 

 A moderate- sized tree with brown bark and brownish -grey 



