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recognized. On the hills, TURPINIA POMIFERA, D.C., 

 .and ALLOPHYLLUS COBBE, Bl., both trees with three- 

 foliate leaves, are very common. 



The ' Horse chestnut ' GESCULUS) and the Maple 

 (ACER) belong also to this family. 



ANACARDIACE^: 



Examples : 



ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALS, L., the Cashew-nut tree. 



A small tree with short crooked trunk. Leaves alter- 

 nate, simple, short petioled, obovate-oblong, entire, 

 margins incurved, coriaceous, glabrous. Venation pin- 

 nate, with conspicuous secondary nerves. 



Flowers small, in terminal panicled cymes. Sepals 

 five, lanceolate acute. Petals five, linear oblong, acute. 

 Stamens nine, slender, anthers round minute. Ovary 

 immersed in a disc, one-celled. Style slender. Fruit 

 kidney-shaped, and obliquely placed on a swollen 

 receptacle (the end of the pedicel), the pericarp con- 

 taining, when young, large chambers full of a very 

 acrid juice. Seed one, embryo with two large falcate 

 cotyledons, commonly eaten under the name cashew-nut. 

 The pear-shaped swollen pedicel is the well-known 

 rather acrid fruit. 



The obliquely placed style and lop-sided ovary 

 and fruit, point to the ovary consisting of but one 

 carpel (as in the Bean, Pea, and Gram). The fleshy 

 swollen pedicel is very unusual, but corresponds to the 

 fleshy part of a pear or apple, the difference being that 

 in them the ovary is inferior and enclosed inside the 

 pedicel, in this it is superior and borne on top of it. 



