204 CLASSIFICATION 



i-seeded, or 2- to 5-celled and 2- to 5-seeded drupe. 

 Seeds exalbuminous, embryo large, with fleshy coty- 

 ledons. 



The Order is chiefly tropical. Common plants are 

 am or Mango {Mangifera indica), with polygamous 

 i-staminate flowers in terminal panicles; bhala or 

 Marking-nut {Semecarpus Anacardium), a fruit with a 

 roundish nut on the top of a pyriform fleshy peduncle 

 (fig. 176), used by washermen to mark 

 clothes; hijli-badam or Cashew-nut 

 {Anacardium occidentale) (see fig. 131), 

 with a kidney-shaped nut seated on a 

 pyriform fleshy peduncle (the kernel 

 of the nut is eaten as a kind of badam 

 or Almond, and the peduncle is eaten 

 in acid curries); amrha or Hog-plum 

 Fig. 176. -Fruit of {Spondias mangifera) ; belati - amrha 



^A:l:Ja:Zr"" i^- ^^^'^&' ^^^ J^yal or HuU (Odina 

 Wodier). Rhzis khasiana is a com- 

 monly growing tree in Chittagong and Shillong with 

 compound pinnate leaves which give the tree the 

 appearance of a neem {Melia) tree. 



Sub-class 2. Calyciflor^ 



Nat. Order i. Legum,inosce. — Herbs, shrubs, or 

 trees. Leaves alternate, usually pinnate, rarely simple 

 {Bauhinia). Stipules 2, free; leaflets often with secon- 

 dary stipules or stipels. Flowers regular or irregular. 

 Carpel i, superior, i-celled; ovules usually several, 

 2-seriate, anatropous. Fruit usually a legume (pod), 

 less often a lomentum. Seeds exalbuminous with 

 fleshy or leafy cotyledons. 



This is one of the most cosmopolitan families of 

 plants, and the second largest, containing between 



