Holigartia.} A NA CARDIACS A E. 207 



wood of 110 value. The pericarp of the drupe gives a 

 marking ink and the hypocarp is edible. Vern. Hind. 

 Bhilawa ; Ur. Bhallia ; Td. Jiri ; Tarn. Sheiikottei, 

 Thembarai; Kan-. Gheru ; Mai. Thenkotta. 



2. SEMUCARPUS TRAVANCORICA, Bedd. Fl. t. 232 ; F. B. I. ii. 31. 



W. Ghats, in the evergreen forests of Travaneore imd 

 Tinnevelly, up to 4,000 ft. 



A very large line tree with grey black-blotched bark and 

 greyish-white wood of no value. Vern. Tarn. Kattu 

 shenkottei : 3Ld. Avukarani. 



3. SBMKCARPUS AURICULATA, Bedd. Ic. t. 187; F. B. I. ii. :)2. 



"VV. Ghats, in the evergreen forests of Travaneore and 

 Tinnevelly, up to 3,000 ft, 



A large handsome tree with panicles of small yellow male 

 flowers and inconspicuous greenish females. Bark grey, 

 smooth; wood soft, greyish-white, useless. Vern. Ta,u. 

 Vellei charei ; Hal. Chav*M. 



11. Holigarna, Ham. 



Lofty trees often with acrid juice. Leave* alternate, simple, 

 entire, coriaceous or subcoriaceous ; petiole with one or two pairs 

 of spur-like deciduous appendages. Flowers small, polygamo- 

 dioecious, in axillary and terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx 

 superior, shortly 5-toothed, the tube in flowers cup-shaped or 

 sometimes subcylindric. Petals 5. valvate, cohering at the base 

 itnd with the edge of the disk, densely villous inside. Dlxl; lining 

 the calyx-tube, obscure in flowers. Stamens 5, inserted outside 

 the disk ; filaments subulate ; anthers oblong-cordiform, versatile, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary in flowers none, in $ flowers 

 inferior, 1-celled ; styles usually 3. divergent ; stigmas capitate ; 

 ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell. Fruit a resinous, 

 acrid, compressed, ovoid drupe, partly or wholly enclosed in the 

 accrescent calyx and disk (hypocarp ). Seed parietal; testa 

 membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons thick, plano-convex ; 

 radicle lateral. 



Leaves glabrous beneath or midrib slightly pubescent when young, 

 obovatc or oblanceolate, not suddenly broadening above the middle, 

 coriaceous, petiole- spurs deciduous; hypocarp qiiite enclosing the 

 drupe : 



