Semeearpus.] xlti. anacaediacej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 



ii. 83 ; Cor. PI. i. t. 12 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. i. 168 ; Wt. Ic. t. 668 ; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 41 ; JDalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 62 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 166 ; Brandts 

 For. Flor. 124 ; Wall. Cat. 8473. S. latifolius, Pera. {ex Marehand). Anar- 

 caidium latifolium, Lawk. HI. t. 208. A. oificinarum, Qcertn. 



Teopicai. outer Himaiata, from Sirmore to Sikkim, ascending to 3500 ft. ; and 

 throughout the hotter parts of India, as far east as Assam (absent in the Eastern 

 Peninsula and Ceylon). — Disteib. Eastern Archipelago and N. Australia. 



A moderate-sized dioecious deciduous tree, exuding a dark juice ; young parts 

 petioles leaves beneath and panicle clothed with a fine pale pubescence. Leaves 9-30 

 by S-12 in., very coriaceous, flat, margin cartilaginous, rarely linear-oblong, usually 

 contracted below the middle; nerves 16-25 pairs, stout, slightly arched; petiole 

 1-2 in., rounded, not winged. Panicle equalling or shorter than the leaves, stout ; 

 "branches spreading ; bracts lanceolate. Flowers \-^ in. diam., subsessUe, fascicled. 

 PeiJaZs much longer than the calyx, oblong, greenish-white. FUaments subulate. 

 Drupe 1 in. long, obliquely ovoid or oblong, smooth, shining, black ; cup orange-red. 



Vak. cuneifolia ; DC. Prodr. ii. 62 ; leaves cuneate at the base often tomentose 

 beneath. Tropical Himalaya, Khasia Mts., Behar, and the Ooncan. — S. cuneifolia, 

 Soxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 86 ; Grah: Cat. Bomb. PI. 41. 



2. S. microcarpa, Wall. Co*. 989 f leaves large obovate or subpanduri- 

 forin tip rovmded base acute obtuse or rounded glabrous and opaque above 

 ^ale with fine subscatrid pubescence beneath, drupe ^ in. 



SntMA ; on the Irawaddy, WaUich. 



Very similar in habit and foliage to S. Anacardiwm, but the drupes are less than 

 half the size. — Kurz's 8. albescens (see p. 35), which he describes as having the petals 

 valvate or subvalvate, a glabrous disk, pubescent ovary and 3 thick styles ; found in 

 -the Moung forests, Pegu, by Dr. Brandis, may possibly be this. 



3. S. pubescens, Thioaites Fkmm. 77; leaves lanceolate finely acumi- 

 nate under surface and petiole velvety-tomentose nerves nearly straight, panicles 

 slender velvety, drupe ^ in. 



Ceylon, at Eatnapoora, Walker, Thwaites. 



A small tree {Thwaites). Leaves 6-12 by 2-21 in., opaque and glabrous above 

 «xcept the pubescent midrib, densely clothed with rusty brown tomentum beneath, 

 base acute or rounded ; nerves 16-20 pairs, somewhat arched ; petiole i-1 in. Panicle 

 with very spreading branches. Flowers glabrous. Brupe oblong, slightly oblique, as 

 broad as the short cup. 



4. S> Thwaitesli, Sooh.f.; leaves lanceolate finely acuminate under 

 surface and petiole laxly pubescent or glabrate nerves much arched, panicles 

 glahrate. 



CETI.0N, at Morowe Corle, Thwaites. 



This, which is regarded by Thwaites as a glabrous form of S. puhescens, seems to 

 me to be at once distinguished not only by the different pubescence, but by the much 

 arched nerves. 



** Leaves glabrous on both surfaces. Panicles glabrous. 



5. S. travancorica, Bedd. Flor. Sylv. t. 232 ; leaves very latge oblong 

 «r obovate- oblong thickly coriaceous, shining and reticulate on both surfaces, 

 ■fip rounded, base rounded or acute, petiole 2 in. 



Westeen PENiNStTLA; Travancor Ghats, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beidome. 



A very large tree. Leaves 12 by 6-6 in., occasionally lanceolate and acuminate, 

 very coriaceous, dark green and shining above, paler beneath ; nerves 16-18 pairs, 

 much reticulated beneath ; petiole 2 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, compound, 

 spreading, about equalling the leaves. Flowers dioecious, 5-6-merous. Cah/x pubes- 



