354 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Semecarp 
401. SEMECARPUS SUBPANDURIFORMIS Wall.; F. B. I. ii, 35. 
Chittagong. 
A tree, 
208. Anacardium Rottb. 
Shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, petioled, simple, entire; 
stipules 0. Flowers small, polygamous, in terminal bracteate 
panicles. Calyx 5-partite; segments erect, imbricate, deciduous. — 
Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, recurved, imbricate ; disk erect, filling 
the calyx-tube. Stamens 8-10, usually 9, all fertile or some sterile, 
one usually larger than the others; filaments connate at the base 
and adnate to the disk. Ovary 1-locular, ovoid or obcordate; style 
excentric filiform, stigma minute; ovule solitary, ascending from 4 
lateral funiculus. Fruit a kidney-shaped nut, seated on a large — 
pyriform fleshy mass derived from the accrescent disk and top of 
peduncle; pericarp hg and filled with oil. Seed kidney 
shaped, ascending ; apisiendoe ti adherent; albumen 0; 
embryo curved, ou. semilun : 
402. ANACARDIUM occIDENTALE ony F. I. it, 812; F. BL 
20; E. D. A. 1014. 
Cultivated and sometimes nas tas as wild, especiallyin _ 
rae and Chittagon 2 
A small tree, native of America. Hind. Kaju; Bing 
Kaju, hidgli-badam. : 
209. Odina Roxb. 
rminal racemes or panicles. Calyx 
persistent ; lobes ‘niet imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate; 
annular, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 8-10, inserted within the 
Ovary rudimentary, 4- -partite. ¢ ¢ Stamens 8-10 or 0. ont : 
Sesaile, oblong, 1- locular ; till 4, stout, stigmas simple 
Capitellate; ovule solitary, pendul ll com i 
reniform drupe, tipped by the distant rig stone hard. 5¢ 
Compressed ; albumen 0; embryo curve 
_ OPIss. Won Woprer Roxb.; F. I. ii. "998; F. BL 
i, 95 
Sa ky y trovines, including the Sundribuns. 
