306 ANACARDIACER. [ Buchanania. 
ovule; style short, terminal. Drupe fleshy, the putamen thin, 
woody, fibrous, indehiscent, l-seeded. Seed nearly erect; radiele 
inferior.—Trees, wit opposite, simple leaves. Flowers “small, 
terminal or axillary panicles 
Panicle small, sessile or nearly so, sais glabrous ; petals } lin sane B. oppositifolia. 
‘anicle large, ae i cr couple ous; — lin. long 
ong B. Burmanica. 
ssured ; leaves more or less lanceolate, on a rather long petiole, 
long and bluntish acuminate, 4-5 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous, 
glossy beneath, the nerves impressed beneath ; flowers small, on 1- 
aE aoe 4 or 5, about 4 a lin bie, linear-oblong, blunt ; 
stamens 5, all fe rtile ; tesa tg short, broad at the base; drupes 
ovoid-oblong and somewhat kidney-shaped, size of. a small 
7s egg, somewhat compressed, smooth, yellow (or bluish- 
ar _faPPy> acid or sweet, containing a a thin, woody, 1-seeded 
1: See er rare in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenasserim, fre- 
pent in those of the POINEDE | also generally cultivated all over Burma.— —Fl- 
; Fr. 2 -May s.—88.—Metam. SiS 
eink = oat eyish, very coarsely fibrous and loose-grained; heart- 
wood large, binckich or reddish, ebony-like, hard, close-grained, rather heavy- 
2. B, Burmanica, Griff.—An evergreen tree, the very youns 
shoots minutely puberulous ; leaves lanceolate or elliptically Tanceo- 
late, on a longer or shorter glabrous petiole, longer or shorter 
bluntish acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, in a dried state opaque, 
the dakeeal 3 nerves impressed on both sides, the midrib and petiole of 
Has ahedion + in Tennent March. 
BUCHANANIA, Roxb. 
"Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx short, 3-5-toothed, persistent, 
