SEMECAEPUS TRAVANCOEICA. (Nat. order Anacardiaeese.) 



For Gen. Char, see letter press to Plate clxvi. 



SEMECARPTJS TrAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) A very large tree, leaves glabrous oblong rounded at the apex, or occa- 

 sionally lanceolate and terminating in a fine point, very coriaceous, dark green and very shining above paler beneath, generally about a 

 foot long by 5-6 inches broad, (but on young trees up to 2| feet in length,) petioles about 2 inches long, veins and reticulated veinlets 

 very prominent particularly beneath, panicles axillary and terminal about as long as the leaves spreading and compound, flowers 5-6 

 merous the calyx slightly puberulous and ciliate, the male with a large turbinate rudiment of an ovary, drupe obliquely oblong rounded 

 at the apex about 1 inch long, hypocarp broad and short. 



This is an exceedingly handsome tree on account of its shining dark green foliage, it is very common in the moist forests on the Tin- 

 nevelly and Truvanoore mountains (elevation 1000-300 d feet), it abounds with the same caustic black juice as S. anacardium, it flowers in August 

 and September and ripms itsfrv.it in the cold season, it is called in Tamil Natu Shengote. 



Analysis, 



1. A 5-merous male flower bud. 



2. The same expanded. 



3. The same petals removed, showing the turbinate rudiment of an ovary and the insertion of the stamens. 



4. Anthers, front and back view. 

 5 A 6-merous male flower. 



6. Portion of a panicle in fruit (drawn from a dried specimen.) 



7. Seed. 



8. Vertical section of the same. 



9. Transverse section of the same. 



The following species has lately been discovered on the Tinnevelly mountains by Mr. Hayne and should be added to the 

 Manual at page lxxxi. 



14. Semecaepus auriouxata. (Bedd.) A good sized tree, leaves oblanceolate with a small blunt acuminatum very 

 gradually attenuated at the base and there furnished with 2 rounded lobes just above the petiole, glabrous of a dull green color, costa 

 slightly rusty, margin membranaceous, about 7 inches long by If broad above the middle, venation prominent beneath, petiole 2-3 

 Hne3 long, drupe obliquely obovate about 6 liues broad by 4-5 lines high supported on a short broad cup-like hypocarp. 



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