322 ANACARDIACE®. [ Dracontomelum. 
—Trees, with alternate pinnate leaves. Flowers minute, in termi- 
nal eS S. 
era, Pers.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 42; Bedd, Sylv. 
Mads. Km: 99; rand, For. Fl. 128.—Gway.—A tree (90—100 % 
+50—60+ 10—1 ma see: awng the greater part of the D.S., 
ark an inch 
all parts glabrous ;_ bar thick, smooth, grey, slightly 
cracked; leaves unpaired pinnate glabrous, the "petiole terete ; 
leaflets ‘usually in to 5 pairs with an odd one, oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, sce shortly petioluled, 3-6 in. long, shortly 
acuminate, membranous, entire, glabrous, the parallel numerous 
nerves thin and faint and uniting along the margin; flowers small, 
whitish, almost sessile, clustered, forming a robust glabrous panicle 
at the did of the thick branchleta ; et oblong-lanceolate, about 
2 lin. long; disk large, fleshy ; stamens 10, very short; drupes 
drooping, elliptical or ovoid, the size ofa pullet’s egg, fleshy, 
smooth, yellow, very acerb, but edible, containing a large fibrous- 
woody 5-celled putamen, of which usually only 1-2 seeds come to : 
bent : 
s9—Preguet i in the mixed forests, especially the upper ones, all. over 
tooo agong, Prome, and Martaban down to Tenasserim, up to 3, 
ft. eiseaition. FL March-Apr. —Fr. C8.—1—SiS. = w Si8. 
EMARKS.—Wood white, soft, coarse and useless. The tree yields large 
quantities of a transparent juice which soon hardens into a mild, Snsipe 
ellowish gum, somewhat resemblin -arabic. 
DRACONTOMELUM, Bl. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate. Petals 5, 
almost valvate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the crenate 
3; Ovary sessile, 5-celled, with a pendulous solitary ovule in eac 
cell; styles 5, thick, ovary-shaped. Drupes globose or spheroid, 
fleshy, the putamen bony, 2-5-celled.—Trees, with alternate pim- 
_ nate leaves. Flowers small, almost clustered, in axillary or r almost 
— a eae cles 
mangiferum, Bl Ind. Fl. ii. 43.—An evergreen 
tree (901 00+ oe 3—1 Ot the shoots tawny pubescent leaves 
aired- (rarely and only occasionally pairedly) pinnate, the semi- 
- 
Scoot petiole pe abnoet te terete rachis yobeeniee’: and_short- 2 
