Semecarpus. | ANACARDIACER, 311 
glabrous, the nerves and net-veination conspicuous on both sides; 
sea small, on 14-2 lin. long minutely puberulous pedicels, form- 
ing bracted terminal i ite more or less minutely greyish puberu- 
lous panicles; bracts lanceolate, puberulous ; calyx 5-cleft to near 
the base ; ; petals liséitclomeialeesc revolute, pale-yellowish with pink 
streaks, 6-7 lin, long ; —o usually 9 or 10, one o 
longer; nut kidney-shaped, blunt, the size of a plum, compressed, 
seated on a fleshy glabrous orange-coloured edible pares of the 
size and shape of a small pear. 
Has:—In the iret forests and along sandy sea-shores and dunes — fee moe 
y cairo Tenasse Also cultivated in villages.—Fl. Nov.-Dech. 
Ca. 
ReManRKs. ate dark-brown, Liar for charcoal. Exudes pes i at 
ucid lik arabic, form A Boo y arnish. The juice 
incisions in the bart vie iclds an tilchibie in ing ink. ‘The pericarp Of | the cee 
doi ye a or pe enc apple-oil), while the seeds themselves 
produces a black acri 
yield a very good edi 
SEMECARPUS, L.f. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx a ee the lobes deciduous, imbri- 
cate. Petals 5, valvate or imbrica ——— 5, inserted to 
cup-shaped or turbinate hypocarp (engrossed base of the calyx) ; ite 
pericarp thick, hard, cellular and resinous. Seed pendulous. 
9 Superior, $8 te ties with alternate oe leaves. Flowers 
panicles 
* Nut much exserted Srom the fleshy des Ovary quite 
x ve! tomentose or pubescent. 
+ Hypocarp (enlarged fleshy ‘base of calyx) as 
large or nearly as large as the nut. 
coriaceous, blunt, densel pu and 
strongly net-veined beneath; nut not or almost not oblique . 8. Anacardium, 
softly pubes- 
cent beneath, the net-veination faint ; it; nut very oldie - &. 
Sores cece on a one 
glaucous beneath, = net-veination strong nut ~ y obi 
13-1 in. across é - S. heterophyllus. 
X X Ovary. qui nite glabrous. . 
A tree; leaves chartaceous, + eae glabrous; panicles quite 8. subpanduri- 
gla "ous ; nut an in, s JSormis. 
A simple: 3 panicles 
densely nae cen 3 nut ones . & subracemosus, 
2A TE cio to fhe hepovere, ie ls ea 
Tanai ghthecun ne. pabescont’ mn whitish beneath; nut velvety, 
ne athe from the sappy veined puberulous hypocarp . &. albescens. 
