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XLI. ANACARDIACEjE 



[Semecarpus 



oblong, greenish-yellow, ovary hairy. Drupe 1 in. long, shining, purplish- 

 black, pericarp full of acrid resinous juice, hypocarp orange, edible. 



Subhiinalayan tract from the Bias eastwards, ascending in the outer hills tc 3,500 

 ft. Assam, Khasi hills, Chittagong. Central India and the Western Peninsula. Not in 

 Ceylon and not yet reported from Burma. Leafless February to April. Fl. May- August. 

 2. S/pandurata, Kurz F. Fl. i. 312, Che, CJii, Burm. Common in Pegu and Martaban. 

 L. almost membranous, suddenly narrowed below the middle, nut very oblique, is 



Semecarpus Anacardium, Linn. f. 



possibly only a local form of S. Anacardium. 3. S. auriculata, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 

 187. A large dioecious tree, with black resinous juice, in the evergreen forests of the 

 Tinnevelli and Travancore Ghats. L. glabrous, nearly sessile, oblanceolate, auriculate 

 at base, 5-10 in. long. Male flower, small, 3^1-merous, very numerous, in long com- 

 pound panicles (the tree a perfect mass of yellowish-white blossoms), the female 4-5- 

 merous, more than twice the size of the $ , greenish, on short few-fid. panicles. Drupe 

 obliquely obovoid, i in. long, on a short broad cup-like hypocarp. 4. S. travancorioa, 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 232. A large dioecious tree, common on the Tinnevelli and Travan- 



