314 ANACARDIACER. [ Drimycarpus. 
38).—An evergreen tree (50—60+25—30+4+4—6), glabrous, or 
the branchlets and younger parts all velvety pubescent; leaves 
elongate-obovate to cuneate-lanceolate and almost oblong, on a 
strong tomentose or glabrous petiole 3-1 in. long, 7-12 im. 
long, shortly and bluntish acuminate, rounded or obtuse at 
the narrowed base, oc etnennn, above Slossy >. glabrous, 
or the midrib above min y pubescent, and beneath covered. 
with a thin, white, 5 _ Gx Somat with yet soft 
ccnally dette Shar the leaves; calyx minute, pubescent ; 2 
valvate or nearly so, about a line long, shortly pubescent; ovary 
site appressed hirsute, with 3 thick glabrous stigmas; disk 
w, glabrous; stamens 5, usually 1 or 2 of them abortive and 
Seow. than the others ; filaments short and broad. Ovary densely 
tawny-hispid ; nuts oblique, broader than long, only the prs ex- 
serted from the fleshy yellowish orange-veined minutely pube 
edible hypocarp. 
Var. 1, ALBESCENS PROPER; leaves puberulous beneath. 
Var. 2, GLABER ; all parts, also the leaves beneath, glabrous. 
Hazs.—Not hams in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Tenas- ; 
serim ; rather rare in those of the Pegu Yomah, up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. = 
Jan.-Febr.; Fr. March-Apr.—s.—SS.—=Metam. SiS. 
Remarxks.—Exudes a black varnish. 
DRIMYCARPUS, Hf. | 
Flowers polygamous; calyx 5-lobed, imbricate ; petals 5, free, 
imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted at the hase of the annular rather 
broad disk. Ovary inferior, with a solitary ovule attached to the 
ak of the feet otyle 1, very short. Par inferior, » ith atest 
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