124 XXIX. ANACAEDIACEiE. [OdlJia. 



moian, moyen, mowi, harna, dam-para, C.P. ; Moina, Guzerat ; Wodier 

 and Wude in Tamil (hence the specific nanLe)j Oharri-marra, Gonds, Sat- 

 pura range. Nahhay, Burm. 



Young branches, leaves, and inflorescence with deciduous stellate 

 tomentum. Leaves few, near ends of branches, 12-18 in. long, more or 

 less glabrous when old, leaflets 3 or 4 pair, short-petiolulate, ovate, the ter- 

 minal long-petiolulate. Flowers tetramerous, on short pedicels in com- 

 pact, few-flowered cymose fascicles, the female flowers in simple, the male 

 flowers in compound racemes. Eacemes numerous at the end of branches, 

 or on short lateral branchlets, male and female on different branches 

 (often on different trees). Bracts numerous, broad-ovate, ciliate. Calyx- 

 lobes obtuse, ciliate. Petals oblong, more than twice the length of calyx, 

 coriaceous, spreading, purplish and greenish-yellow. Stamens 8, in male 

 flowers as long as petals. Drupe on short pedicel, obliquely oblong, 

 compressed, J-§ in. long ; epicarp coriaceous, glabrous, red when ripe. 

 (Sometimes black ?) 



Common in dry forests in most parts of India and Burma, extending north- 

 west to the Indus, and ascending to 4000 ft. in the outer Himalaya. Leafless 

 from January or February to June ; the flowers appear before the leaves between 

 February and Aprfl ; the fruit ripens from June onward, and often remains 

 long on the tree. 



A large tree, 40-50 ft. high, with an erect trunk, attaining generally 5-6 ft. in 

 girth (12 ft. Baraich and Gonda forests, Oudh). Branches not numerous, large, 

 spreading. A handsome tree when in. full foliage, an eyesore when leafless. 

 Bark 1 in. thick, ash-coloured, brown, or blackish, smooth, with scaly plates ex- 

 foliating, inner substance reddish, mucilaginous. Sapwood whitish, large, often 

 nearly half the radius. Heartwood dull red, or reddish brown. A cub. ft. 

 weighs 50-60 lb., P. 821. Works and planes smooth, polishes well, and, save 

 that it is heavy, might be valuable for cabinet-work. Used for spear-shafts, 

 scabbards, spokes of wheels, and (in Bmma) for oil-presses and rice-potmders. 



A yellowish-white gum exudes in spring, which is largely collected, and used 

 in cloth-printing by weavers, and in medicine. The tree is often lopped and 

 pollarded, the leaves and branches being a favourite fodder of cattle. Elephants 

 are very fond of the young shoots. « 



4. SEME CARPUS, Linn. fil. 



Trees with alternate, petiolate, simple, coriaceous leaves, and small 

 polygamous flowers in lateral or terminal panicles. Calyx 5-cleft, the 

 segments deciduous. Petals 5, imbricate. A broad annular disc between 

 stamens and ovary. Stamens 5, small and sterile in the female flowers. 

 Ovary 1, 1-celled, with 3 styles; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit an 

 oblong, more or less oblique drupe, with a thick pericarp, its cells filled 

 with an acrid resinous juice, surrounded at the base by a fleshy cupular 

 or turbinate hypocarp, formed of the thickened receptacle and base of 

 calyx. 



f 1. S. Anacardium, L. ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 12 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 83 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 168; Wight Ic. t. 558 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 166.-7^6 Marking 

 Nut tree.—8a.ias. Arushkara, Ihallataka. Vern. BMlawa, hhaliau. Ph., 



