324 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



33, Anacardium EoTTB.^ — Flowers polygamous, 5 -merous ; sepals 

 erect, imbricate, deciduous. Petals longer, imbricated, acute re- 

 curved. Stamens 8-10, 2- seriate verticillate ; filaments unequal 

 connate at base in glandular ring, otherwise free ; antbers introrse, 

 longitudinally 2-rimose, or in 1 (or more rarely 2 and 3), stamens 

 poUeniferotis ; in otbers sterile small. Germen free, l-l(Jcular, un- 

 equally compresso-obovate or oboordate, hence gibbous; style 

 excentric simple, obtuse or scarcely incrassate stigmatiferous at 

 apex;" ovule solitary long conical inserted at summit of suberect 

 funicle, transverse or ascendent ; chalaza superior ; micropyle introrse 

 inferior near funicle. Fruit dry nucamentaceous reniform, marked 

 in lateral sinus with umbilicus and cicatrice of style ; mesocarp lacu- 

 nose oleose-resinous ; peduncle below fruit much incrassate large 

 piriform fleshy.^ Seed ascendent conformed to pericarp; funicle 

 near base, lateral ; testa membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo thick plano-convex semilunar ; radicle short inferior incurved. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate simple petiolate entire ; flowers 

 in ramified terminal racemes, bracteate. [Tropical America?) 



34. Semecarpus L. June.* — Flowers polygamous (nearly of Rhus) 

 usually 5-merous; calyx 5-fid, imbricated, deciduous. Petals imbricated. 

 Stamens 5, alternate, inserted below disk. Germen sessile, 1-locular ; 

 styles 3, divergent ; incrassate stigmatiferous at apex, subclavate or 

 shortly 2-lobed; ovule inserted at apex of cell descendent. Fruit nuca- 

 mentaceous,or more or less drupaceous, unequally compressed or reni- 



Medd. Kjob. (1873) ilG.—Bot. Mag. t. 4510.— ^ gpeoies about 6, of which 1 is cultiTated be- 



Walp. Rep. i. 555 ; Ann. i. 200 ; ii. 283 ; vii. tween the tropics -with very divers forms. Jacq. 



644. Amer. i. 124, t. 181, fig. 36.— TuEP. iaDict. 



' In .4c<. ^a/«. ii. 252 (notLAMK.). — in Ann. Sc. Nat Atl. t. 2&1 (Cassimum). — Guisee. Fl. 



Se. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 334.— DO. Prodi: ii. 62.— A. Brit. W.-Ind. 176.— Tr. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Wat. 



S. H. in Q-uillem. Arch. Sot. i. 269. — Spach, ser. 5, xiv. 287. — March, in Vid. Medd. Kjob. 



Suit, a, Buffon, ii. 187.— Endl. Gen. n. 5916.— (1873), 416.— Wight et Arn. Frodr. ii. 62.— 



B. H. Got. 420, n. 8.— March. Anacard. 107, Kl. inFet. Mossamb. Bot. 91. — Oliv. Fl. trop. 



191. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, xi. 158.— Cassa- Afr. i. 443.— W alp. Fep. i. 655 ; Ann. i. 200. 



vium Etjmph. Serb. Amboin. i. 177, t. 69.— Lamk. ■• Suppl. 286. — K. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 



Diet. i. 22, Suppl. i. 331 ; III. t. 322.— J. Gen. 337.— DC. Frodr. ii. 62.— Spach, Suit a Buffon, 



368. — Acajou T. Inst. 658, t. ii5.^Acajuba ii. 189. Endl. Gen. n. 6917. — B. H. Gen. 



GiERTN. Fruct. i. 192, t. 40. — Mhinocarpus 424, n. 26. — March. Anac.62, 170. Anacar- 



Beht. MSS. (ex K. loc. cit. ZS5). —Monodi/namus dium Lamk. Bid. i. 139 ; III. t. 208 (nee L.).— 



PoHL, PZ. .Cms. ii. 67, 1. 144. Gjertn. J'?wi!. i. 192, t. iO. —Oncocarpus A. 



2 For evolutions of which see Adansonia, xi. Gray, in Amer. Ezpl. Exp. Sot. i. 364 t. 43. 



162, B. H. Gen. 424, n. 26. 



