ANACARDIACEJE. 



grateful of all fruits. Its flesh is filled with a rich luscious juice ; but 

 the inferior kinds have also so much tuYpentine flavour as to be uneat- 

 able. From wounds made in the bark, there issues a soft reddish, brown 

 gum resin, which age hardens, and renders exceedingly like bdellium. 

 Burnt in the flame of a candle, it emits a smell like that of Cashew 

 nuts when roasting. It softens in the mouth, and adheres to the teeth. 

 Its taste is slightly bitter with some degree of pungency. It dissolves 

 almost entirely in spirits, and in a great measure in water ; both solutions 

 are milky with a small tinge of brown. Roxb. 



HOLIGARNA. 



Flowers polygamous-dioecious. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, 

 from a broad base, contiguous, oblong, spreading. Stamens 5, 

 shorter than the corolla. Ovary (in the hermaphrodite flowers) 

 connate with the tube of the calyx, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; ovule 

 suspended on one side from near the apex of the cell. Styles 

 1-3 from the top of the ovary. Fruit inferior, oval ; pericarp 

 thick, somewhat fleshy, containing cells full of thick acrid juice. 

 Seed with a transverse embryo. Trees. Leaves stalked, al- 

 ternate, oblong, acute or acuminate, entire, glabrous, or when 

 young with a short rusty-coloured pubescence. W. and A. 

 chiefly. 



| :585. H. longifolia Roxb. corom. iii. t. 282. fl. ind. ii. 80. DC. 

 prodr. ii. 63. W. and A. i. 169. (Rheede iv. t. 9.) Tra- 

 vancore and Malabar. 



Leaves cuneate, oblong or acute; petioles usually with a subulate 

 soft, incurved, thorn-like, deciduous process on each side about the 

 middle. Panicles terminal and axillary ; styles recurved ; stigmas 

 crescent-shaped. W. and A. Similar in its properties to Stagmaria 

 verniciflua, No. 594. 



ANACARDIUM. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, deciduous ; seg- 

 ments erect : aestivation imbricative. Petals 5, linear, acumi- 

 nate, recurved. Receptacle filling up nearly the whole tube of 

 the calyx, and combining the bases of the stamens and petals. 

 Stamens about 9 or 10, l-4< of them in the male flowers fertile, 

 and twice as long as the others, which are usually sterile : fila- 

 ments connate at the base and with the base of the petals. 

 Ovary free, sessile, oblique, 1-celled. Style solitary, somewhat 

 on one side, filiform, curved. Fruit compressed, somewhat co- 

 riaceous, on the top of the enlarged elevated stalk-like pyriform 

 receptacle : pericarp containing in its substance cells full of an 

 acrid juice. Seed erect. Cotyledons semi-lunate, fleshy, plano- 

 convex. Radicle curved. 



586. A. occtdentale Linn. sp. 54*8. Jacq. amer. i. 1. 181. f. 35. 



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