1896.] G. King — A^ety Indian Trees. 117 



This species approaches more closely to M. WiylUii, Plauoh. thau to 

 any other ; but its pubescence is much denser and more rusty, its flowers 

 are much smaller and less crowded than in that plant, and its leaves have 

 many more main nerves. It also resembles M. pungens, but is a much 

 larger and more robust plant with larger, less deeply serrate, leaves and 

 larger fruit. It was collected so long ago as 1857 by the late Dr. T. 

 Thomson, F. R. S. at that time Superintendent of the Botanic Garden, 

 and has been sparingly collected since. 



Nat. Ord. Anacardiacese. 



Semecarpus subspathulatus, n. spec. A small tree ; young branches 

 as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous, their bark brown when dry. Leaves 

 membranous, entire, sub-spathulate, obovate-lanceolate or obovate-ellip- 

 tic ; the apex broad and rounded or sub-acute, narrowed in the lower 

 two-thirds to the short petiole ; upper surface shining, and with a few 

 short scattered adpressed hairs ; lower surface pale brown when dry, 

 distinctly reticulate, the prominent midrib and main nerves and also 

 the veins with spreading stiff scattered hairs ; main nerves 18 to 20 

 pairs, spreading, interarching freely within the edge ; length 5 to 11 in. 

 breadth (at the widest part) 2 to 5 in. ; petiole *25 to '4 in., channelled 

 on the upper surface, sparsely pubescent. Inflorescence consisting of 

 slender axillary mixed racemes shorter than the leaves, or of a slender 

 terminal panicle of racemes longer than the leaves, minutely and 

 coarsely pubescent. Male flowers about "1 in. in diam., in little distant 

 cymulose fascicles on the racemes or panicles and on pedicels shorter 

 than themselves. Calyx cupular, deeply divided into 5 slightly unequal 

 oblong-rotund blunt segments, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. 

 Petals 5, valvate, longer than the calyx-segments, ovate, sub- acute, 

 glabrous. Stamens 5, all perfect ; the anthers cordate and the filaments 

 thickened at the base ; disk fleshy, convex, glabrous ; ovary 0. Female 

 flowers unknown. Drupe (when young) ovoid, glabrous, crowned by the 

 remains of 3 short deflected styles bearing large transversely oblong 

 capitate stigmas. 



Upper Bdrmah ; exact locality unknown. Calcutta Botanic Garden 

 Collectors. 



This is a very distinct species of Semecarpus, the nearest ally of 

 which is S, suhracemosa, Kurz. 



