312 ANACARDIACER. [ Semecarpus. 
1. §, Anacardium, L.f.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 146; Brand. 
For. Fl. 124.—A leaf-shedding tree, 30-40 ft. high, all the younger 
parts shortly tomentose or densely puberulous; leaves crowded at 
the end of the branches, obovate or oblong (those of the shoots or 
young trees not seldom elongate and cuneate-obovate with a short 
point), rounded or obtuse at the base, on a strong 1-2 in. long 
densely puberulous petiole, to 14 ft. long, blunt or mucronate, 
entire, harshly coriaceous, glabrescent above, the under-surface 
covered with a thin grey velvety tomentum, the net-veination very 
coarse and prominent; flowers small, dull greenish yellow, the 
female ones on 1-3 lin. long very thick tomentose pedicels, racemu- 
lose and nearly twice larger than the clustered almost sessile male 
ones, both forming a terminal, ample and robust, tomentose panicle 
of the length of the leaves or shorter ; males: petals about a line 
long, oblong-lanceolate ; stamens 5, the filaments slender; ovary 
reduced to a tuft of hairs; females and hermaphrodites: petals 
about 2 lin. long; stamens often incomplete ; ovary densely ap- 
pressed tawny hispid ; styles 3; nuts about an in. long, about as 
long as broad, smooth, black, shining, almost broadly oval and 
somewhat compressed, notched-obtuse at the top, the hypocarp 
turbinate, fleshy, yellow, smooth, nearly as large and thick as the 
nut itself. 
-Has.—Chittagong. Said to occur also in Burma.—Fl. H.S.; Fr. c.s.—l. 
REMaRKS.—Wood grey or reddish white, soft and useless. Nuts used as @ 
mordant, and for making an indelible marking-ink. Yields a bright gum. 
2. S. panduratus, Kz.—Chyay-pen.—A tree (50—60+20—30 
obliquely oblong, longer than broad, produced in a short, oblique, 
bluntish poi 
Has.—Frequent in the w ixed forests all Pegu and Martaban, 
up to 2,000 ft. elevation. —Fr. 0.8.—1--SS.-—-SiS., Situs ae 
REMangs.—Wood white, turni brown, rather light, coarsely fibrous 
and soapatangns grace soft, cain, ae soon attacked by xylophages. Yields 
a black resin, and the nuts yield an indelible ink. 
| 8. S. heterophyllus, Bl—An evergreen tree (30—40 +8—l 
+4—5), the branches stout and puberulous while young; /¢4¥ 
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