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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



33. Anacardium EoTTB.^ — Flowers polygamous, o-inerous ; sepals 

 erect, imbricate, deciduous. Petals longer, imbricated, acute re- 

 curved. Stamens 8-10, 2- seriate verticillate ; filaments unequal 

 connate at base in glandular ring, otherwise free ; anthers introrse, 

 longitudinally 2-rimose, or in 1 (or more rarely 2 and 3), stamens 

 poUeniferous ; in others sterile small. Germen free, 1-locular, un- 

 equally compresso-obovate or obcordate, hence gibbous ; style 

 excentric simple, obtuse or scarcely incrassate stigmatiferous at 

 apex; ovule solitary long conical inserted at summit of siiberect 

 funicle, transverse or ascendent ; chalaza superior ; micropyle introrse 

 inferior near funicle. Fruit dry nucamentaceous rcniform, marked 

 in lateral sinus with umbilicus and cicatrice of style ; mesocarp lacu- 

 nose oleose-resinous ; peduncle below fruit much incrassate large 

 piriform fleshy." Seed ascendent conformed to pericarp ; funicle 

 near base, lateral ; testa membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo thick plano-convex semilunar ; radicle short inferior incurved. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate simple petiolate entire ; flowers 

 in ramified terminal racemes, bracteate. {Troincal America?) 



34. Semecarpus L. Junr.* — Flowers polygamous (nearly of Illms) 

 usually 5 -merous; calyx 5-fid, imbricated, deciduous. Petals imbricated. 

 Stamens 5, alternate, inserted below disk. Germen sessile, 1-locular ; 

 styles 3, divergent ; incrassate stigmatiferous at apex, subclavate or 

 shortly 2-lobed; oviilc inserted at apex of cell descendent. Fruit nuca- 

 mentaceous,or more or less drupaceous, unequally compressed or reni- 



tlciW. Kjoh. (1873) il&.—Bot. Mag. t. 4yl0.— 

 Walp. Eep. i. 565 ; Ann. i. 200 ; ii. 283 ; vii. 

 644. 



' In Act. hafn, ii. 252 (notLAMK.). — in Ann. 

 St.. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 334.— DC. Prodr. u. 62.— A. 

 S. H. in Ouillcm. Arch. Bot. i. 269.— Spach, 

 Suit. H Biiffnn, ii. 187.— Endl. Gen. n. 6916.— 

 B. H. acn. 420, n. 8.— Makch. Anacard. 107, 

 191. — H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, xi. 158. — Casm- 

 vinm RuMPii. Herb. Amboin. i. 177, t. 69. — Lamk. 

 Diet. i. 22 , Suppl. i. 331 ; III. t. 322.— J. Gen. 

 ZG^.—Acaji.u T. Imt. 658, t. iZR.—Aenjuba 

 G.nciiTN. Fruct. i. 192, t. 40. — lihinoearpns 

 Bf.kt. MSS. (ex K. he. eit. 335). — Monodi/namus 

 ■PoHL, PI. Brax. ii. 67, t. 144. 

 ■ ^ For evolutions of which eee Adansonia, xi. 

 162. 



■* Species ahout 6, of whicli 1 is cultivated be- 

 tween the tropics with very divers forms. Jacq. 

 Anwi: i. 124, t. 181, fig. 35.— TrEP. m Diet. 

 Sc. Nat Atl. t. 261 (Cassurium). — Giuseb. PL 

 Brit. TF.-Ind. 176.— Tb. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 scr. 5, xiv. 287. — March, in Vid. Medd. Kjub. 

 (1873), 416.— Wight et Akn. Prodr. ii. 62.— 

 Kl. in Pet. Mossamb. Bot. 91. — Oliv. Fl. trop. 

 Afr. i. 443.— Walp. Rep. i. 555 ; Ann. i. 200. 



■• Suppl. 285. — K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 

 337.-1)0. Prodr. ii. 62.— Spach, Suit a Bnffon, 

 ii. 189. ExDL. Gen. n. 6917. — B. H. Gen. 

 424, n. 25.— March. Anac. 62, 170.— Anacar- 

 diiim Lamk. Biet. i. 139 ; Jll.i. 208 (nee L.).- 

 G.TLKiii. Fruct. i. 192, t. 40. — Oneocarpus A. 

 GiiAV, in Amer. Ezpl. E.rp. But. i. 364, t. 43.- 

 E. II. Oen. 424, n. 26. 



