186 aNACABDIACEJE. [Rhus. 



also in Bengal, C. and S. India and Burma. The tree is leafless for a very- 

 short time Flowers Feb.-March- The kernel (chironji), which contains 

 a sweet and wholesome oil, is much used in sweetmeats. The bark is 

 used for tanning ; a pellucid gum exudes from the stems, which is 

 employed medicinally and for other purposes. The heartwood seasons 

 well and is much valued. 



2. Rhus, Linn. ; Fl. Brifc. Ind. ii, 9. 



Trees or shmbs, often with an acrid inice. Leaves alternate, 

 simple or 1-3-foliolate or pinnate. Flotvers smdll, in terminal and 

 axillary panicles, polygamous. Calyx 4-6'parted, persistent; lobes 

 imbricate. Petals 4-6, equal, spreading, imbricate. Stamens 4, 5, 

 6, or 10, inserted at the base of the disk, free ; filaments subulate ; 

 anthers short. Ovary sessile, ovoid or globose, 1-celled ; styles 3 ; 

 stigmas simple or capitate ; ovule pendulous from a basal funicle.. 

 Drwpe small, dry, compressed. Seeds pendulous. — Species about 

 120, natives chiefly of warm temperate regions. 



Branches not spinescent, leaflets irregularly 

 crenate towards the apex . . . .I.E. parviflora . 



Branches usually spinescent, leaflets smaller, 

 deeply dentate or lobed . . . . 2. E. mysurensis. 



1. R. parviflora, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 100 ; Boyle III. 159 ; D. ^ G. 

 Bomb. Fl. Sujpjpl. 19; Brand. For. Fl. 119 ; F. B. I. ii, 9 ; Watt E. D. 

 Vern Tungla. 



An unarmed softly tomentose shrub ; branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles 

 and panicle densely clothed with soft rusty tomentum. Leaves palmately 

 3°foliolate ; petiole l-l|in. ; leafiets l|-3 in., sessile or the terminal 

 contracted into a petiole, elliptic oblong-obovate or orbicular, irregularly 

 crenate above the middle, coriaceous ; nerves spreading, parallel. Pani- 

 cles longer than the leaves ; pedicels very short ; bracts linear. Sepals 

 ovate, outer hairy. Petals twice as long, oblong. Disk 5-lobed. Drupe 

 ^ in. across, ovoid, compressed, red-brown, shining. 



Siwalik range towards the Jumna (Mackinnon). Distrib.: W. Himalaya 

 up to 5,000 ft., Pachmarhi in the Central Provinces. Flowers May and 

 June. The fruits are sold in the bazars under the name of tantarih, and 

 mixed with salt are used medicinally like tamarinds. The leaves are 

 sometimes employed asia substitute for tobacco in Garhwal. 



2. R. mysurensis. 



Heyne 



ex W. 



# ^. 



Prod. 



172 ; 



Boyle III 



174; 



Brand. For 



Fl. 



119; 



F. B. 



I. ii, 9 



• Watt jL. D. 



Vern. 



Dasarni, 



dasan 



Merwara). 





















A small pubescent shrub with flexuous often spiny branches. Leaflets 

 smaller than those of the preceding, obovate or cuneate, sinnate-toothed 

 or lobed, ash-coloured tinged with red. Panicles very slender, sub- 

 simple. Flowers minute. Dish obscurely 5-lobed. 



