324 NATURAL UlSTORV OF PLANTR. 



33. Anacardium EoTTB.^ — Flowers polygamous, 5-ineroiis ; 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-riniose, 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 suberect 

 funicle, transverse or ascendent ; chalaza superior ; micropyle introrse 

 inferior near funicle. Fruit di-y nucaraentaceous reniform, 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 exalbumiuous 

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

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

 in ramified terminal racemes, bractcato. [Tropical Americu?) 



34. Semecarpus L. June.* — Flowers polygamous (nearly of Bhus) 

 iTsually '5-mcrous; calyx 5-fld, 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; ovule inserted at apex of cell descendent. Fruit nuca- 

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



McM. Kjob. (1873) 416. — Bot. Slag.t.iHW. — ^ Species atout 6, of which 1 is cultivated be- 



"Walp. Eep. i. 656 ; Ann. i. 200 ; ii. 283 ; vii. tween the tropics with very divers forms. Jacq. 



G44. Amer. i. 124, t. 181, fig. 36.— Txjep. m Diet. 



' In Jc<. /(n/«. ii. 252 (notLAMK.).— in .^H«. Sc. Nat Atl. t. 261 (C'asswwwwi).— Guiseb. Fl. 



Sc. Nat. sér. 1, ii. 334.— DC. Prodi: ii. 62.— A. Brit. W.-Iiid. 176.— Tr. et Pl. in Am,. Sc. Nat. 



S. H. in Guillem. Arch. Bot. i. 269.— Spach, sér. 5, xiv. 287.— March, in Vid. Mcdd. Kjob. 



Suit, à Baffon, ii. 187.— Endl. Gen. n. 5916.— (1873), 416.— Wight et Arn. Frodr. ii. 62.— 



B. H. Got. 420, n. 8.— March. Anarard. 107, Kh. in Pet. Mossamb. Bot. 91.— Oliy. Fl. trop. 



191. — H. Bn. in Adaiisoiiia, xi. 158. — Cassu- Afr.i.ii^. — Wa\,v. Sep. \. bbb; Ann. i. 2W. 

 vinmUviiyN. Herb. Aml>oin.i. 177,1. 60. — Lamk. ■• Supjil. 285. — K. in ^hh. &. Nat. aéi. 1, ii. 



Diet. i. 22, Suppl. i. 331 ; III. t. 322.— J. Oen. 337.— DC. Prodr. ii. 62.— Spach, SuithBuffon, 



Zm.—Acaji,w T. Inft. 658, i.- iZ5.—Acajuba ii. 189. Endl. Gen. n. 5917. —B. H. Gen. 



GiicRTN. Fruct. i. 192, t. 40. — Fliinoearpus 424, n. 25. — March. Anac. 62, 170. — Anacar- 



Bekt. MSS. (ex K. loc. cit. i35) .—Monodt/namus dimn Lamk. Diet. i. 139 ; Ill.t. 208 (ncc L.).— 



FoHh, PI. Brax.ii. 67,t.Hi. Gjiavrs. Fruct. i. 192, t. iO.—Oncacarpus A. 



2 For evolutions of which see Adanmnia, xi. Gray, in Amer. Ezpl. Exp. Bot. i. 364, t. 43..— 



102. B. H. Gen. 424, n. 26. 



