470 ANACARDIACER. [ Gyrocarpus. 
terminal pendulous panicles ; calyx tawny-velvety, the lobes linear- 
lanceolate, acute, petaloid; petals furnished in their sinuses with 
a cuneate-notched gland; staminodes 10, cucullate and clawed, one 
at each side of the glandular-puberulous filaments ; fruit about 1 
in. long, the nut 4-cornered and velvety, 2-winged, the wings 
broadly vel very blunt, 14-2 in. long, chartaceous, striate 
Has. pride wre in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah and the Marta- 
‘ban hills di o Tenasserim, up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Sept.-Oct. ; Fr. 
March.—s : gayle neon SiS. ~ Aa y 
GYROCARPUS, Jacq. 
Flowers unisexual or polygamous, the males numerous. Calyx 
4-7-parted, the lobes equal or unequal, imbricate, in the females 
two of them much enlarging and becoming wing-like in fruit ; 
calyx-tube adnate to the ovary or, in the males, wanting. Peta als 
none. Stamens as many as calyx-lobes, or fewer or none in the 
foes inserted on the bottom of the calyx and alternating with 
as many club-shaped staminodes; anthers opening by 2 Jateral 
valves. Ovary absent in males; in the coer — with a 
i ndulous ovule; sti sessile. ny, te 
rmina 
i the 2 wing-like elongate coriaceous ore ber. Albumen 
none.—Trees, with alternate, simple or lobed leaves. Flowers very 
small, crowded in dense corymbose cymes. 
1, G. Jacquini, Roxb. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 196.—Penglai- 
— thit-kouk.—A leaf-shedding tree (60—80+40—50+4—8), all 
younger parts more or less puberulous or pubescent; leaves crowded _ 
at the end of the thick branchlets, broadly ovate or on 
- ona 1-4 in. long petiole, more or "less act uminate, on young t 
often 8-10 in. long and broadly and deeply 3-lobed, those of full- 
grown trees usually only 4-5 in. long and entire, rarely obsoletely 
Mie 
= pepe Eeoguent i in the coast forests and upper mixed forests, not far from 
sea ‘Chlsitie agen also Tenasserim.—Fl. R.S.; Fr. C.S.—l.—S8. 
MARKS = Nod white, -Yory light and soft, Good for children’s toys, 
