36 XLVi. anacaeduce;e. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Semecarpus. 



lax, petiole 1-1 in. thick tomentose, panicle densely yellow tomentose usually shorter 

 than the leaves, flowers small racemulose, pedicels ^-^ in., calyx minute pubescent, 

 petals valvate or subvalvate ^ in. shortly pubescent, ovary densely appreasedly 

 hirsute, stigmas 3 thick glabrous, disk glabrous, stamens 5, filaments short rather 

 broad 1 or 2 longer and abortive.' — Kure. 

 Peqtt ; in the Moung forest. Urandis. 



15. SRXiaYCARPTTS, Hook f. 



Lofty trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, siinple, quite entire. Racemes or 

 panicles axillary. Flowers small, suLglotose, polygamous. Cab/x superior; 

 lobes 6, rotmded, imbricate. Petals 5, erect, orbicidar, imbricate. Disk broad, 

 annular. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the disk. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; 

 style 1, very short ; stigma capitate ; ovule attached to the wall of the cell. 

 Jirwpe transversely obliquely ovoid, fibrous, flesh resinous ; stone coriaceous. 

 Seed attached to the wall of the cell, testa membranous ; embryo thick, coty- 

 ledons plano-convex radicle minute opposite the hilum ; plumule hairy. — 

 DisTBiB. 2 or 3 Indian species. 



1. D. racexnosus, Hooh.f. in Benth. 8^ Hooh.f. Gen. PI. i. 424; leaves 

 linear-oblong or lanceolate acuminate glaucous beneath, margins waved. Holi- 

 garna racemosa, Poxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 82 ; Weill. Cat. 1006. 



SiKKiM and Bkotan Hijuaiaya, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; Silhet and Khasia Mts., alt. 

 0-4000 ft. 



A large tree; branehlets glabrous. Leaves 4-12 in., coriaceous, shining above, 

 opaque and grey beneath ; nerves 20-30 pairs, strongly arched ; reticulations deUcate; 

 midrib above rather broad ; petiole ^ in., stout. Bacemes branched in axiHary 

 fascicles, shorter than the leaves, pubescent or glabrate. Flowers Jj in. diam., 

 crowded, the males most so, greenish-white. Lrvipe red, 1 in. diam. — Marchantl 

 (Eev. Anacard. 172) mentions a Holigarna angustifoUa Eoxb. as identical with this, 

 but I find no sxich name published by Eoxbxu:gh. 



IG. KOIiIG'AXt.NA, Ham. 



Lofty trees. Leaves alternate, simple, petioled, entire, coriaceous ; petiole 

 furnished with 2 or 4 spur-like decidous appendages. Pacem.es or panicles 

 axiUary and terminal: Flowers small, crowded!, polygamous. Calijx superior ; 

 tube cup-shaped ; teeth 5, imbricate. Petals 5, densely villous in front, cohering 

 with the edge of the disk and at the tiase, persistent, valvate. Disk lining the 

 calyx-tube, obscm-e in the ? . Stamens 5, inserted on the edge of the disk, 

 coherent at the base with the petals, filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers 

 small, subglobose. Ovanj inferior, 1-celled; styles 3-5, terminal, stigmas 

 capitate or clavate ; ovule pendulotis from near the top of the cell. Drupe sub- 

 compressed, oblong or ovoid, resinous, acrid ; stone coriaceous. Seed parietal, 

 testa membranous; embryo thick, cotyledons plano-convex; radicle minute 

 next the hilmn. — ^Disieib. 7 species, all Indian. 



* Leaves quite glabrous beneath. 



1. K. Amottiana, Hooh.f. ,■ leaves cuneate-obovate obtuse or acute quite 

 glabrous decun-ent on the petiole, petiole with two tubercles at the top, panicles 

 slender tomentose, diiipe glabrous. H. longifolia, Wt. ^ Am. Prodr.i.l'&Q; 

 Qrah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 41 ; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 61 ; Beddome Fl. Si/lv. t. 

 167 (not of Roxburgh). Terebinthacea, Wall. Cat. 8504. 



Westeen Peninsxiia ; from the Concan southwards on the Ghats. 



