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GENUS I. SEMECARPUS. 
Polygamia Dieecia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Semeion, a mark, and Carpos, fruit. The juice- 
of the fruit is used as marking ink. 
Gen. Cuar. Trees with simple entire leaves, and terminal 
panicles: calyx 5-cleft: petals 5, sessile, very spreading: stamens 
5, inserted with the petals under the margin of the disk, distinct: 
evary sessile, 1-celled: styles 3, from the apex of the ovary : fruit 
somewhat cordate, with a hard and thick pericarp, containing cells 
full of corrosive resinous juice: seed suspended. 
(1) S. anacarpium. (Linn..) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 168.—Dec. prod. II. p. 62.—Roxb.. 
fl. Ind. II. p. 83. 
Syn. Anacardium latifolium, Zam.—A. officinarum, Gaertn. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. I. t. 12.—Wight’s Icon. t. 558. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves cuneate-obovate, rounded at the apex, 
whitish beneath: panicles bracteolated: fruit sessile, cordate-ovate, 
notched on one side under the apex: flowers small, green. : 
Coromandel and most parts of India, flowering from.May to. 
July. This is known as the marking-nut tree. The black juice 
of the nuts is used to mark all sorts of cotton cloth. By the mix- 
ture of quicklime and water the colour is improved, prevented from. 
running and fixed. ( Roxb.) , 
(2) S. Granamr. (R. W.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 52,—Wight’s Icon. vol, I. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 235. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves cuneate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous above; 
pubescent beneath: petioles short, furnished with 4 subulate ap- 
pendages: panicles racemose, congested towards the summit of the 
branches: calyx cup-shaped, truncated: ovary and young fruit 
covered with rusty hairs. 
Hilly parts of the Concans. Meera Hills. 
(3) S. cunzrronus. (Roxb. } 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. II. p. 86.—J. Grah. Cat. p. 41. 
Spec. Cuan. Large tree: leaves cuneate-oblong, short-petiol« 
ed, villous underneath: nut curved on one side. : 
Khandalla, Hindostan Mountains, flowering in December, 
