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84. ANACAKDTACEiE. 



[Solenoearpvs. 



have been found in Bombay by any botanist since Grabam. The flowers 

 are described as quite glabroas in the Fl. Br. I. The ovaries are, how- 

 ever, represented as hairy in Wight's Icones, t. 101. Specimens collected 

 by Mr. J. S. Gamble near Ouddapah, Madras Presidency, in July, have the 

 flowers quite glabrous. The small leaves have slender petioles. 



4. ANACARDIUM, Eottl. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves petioled, simple. Panicle terminal, 

 bracteate. Calyx 5-partite, segments erect, imbricate^ deciduous. 

 Petals 5, linear-lanceolate recurved^ imbricate. Disk erect. Stamens 

 8-10 ; filaments connate and adnate to disk, all or some fertile. 

 Ovary obovoid j style filiform excentric ; stigma minute, ovule 1. 

 Nut kidney-shaped^ on enlarged disk and peduncle; pericarp cellular 

 and full of oil. Seed kidney-shaped, testa membranous, adherent ; 

 cotyledons semi-lunar ; radicle short, hooked. 



A, OGGidentale, Linn. Fl. Br. 1. 2. 20; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 

 18; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 163. Goddmhe. K. ; Kaju, M. ; Geru mavu in 

 Dharwar ; EijuU-hadam or Cashewnut. 



Naturalized throughout the Presidency ; very common near the sea- 

 shore in open situations, A native of S. America. 



Wood red, moderately hard, shining, close-grained. Pores large. Med. 

 rays indistinct. Weighs 38 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for boat building, &g, 

 A light yellow bland oil is extracted from the kernels of the seed and is 

 considered superior to olive oil. From the pericarp or shell a black, 

 acrid oil, used to colour fishing nets, is prepared. These oils are used in 

 native medicine. Yields the edible cashewnut. The fleshy stalk is also 

 eaten as fruit. The bark is astringent. 



5. SOLENOCARPtra Wt. & Arn. 



A tree. Lleaves oddpinnate, leaflets opposite, glabrous, crenulate. 

 Flowers sm atl, hermaphrodite in terminal panicles. Calyx minute, 

 5-toothed, at length deciduous. Petals 5, oblong, valvate. Sta- 

 mens 10, inserted at the base of the annular disk ; filaments elongat- 

 ed, filiorm; anthers versatile. Ovary oblong-ovoid, unilocular, 

 sessile, ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell ; style thick, 

 clavate, obliquely truncate at the apex. Fruit a small, compressed, 

 obliquely-oblong, truncate drupe, pericarp eellular, full of oil ; endo- 

 carp bony j cotyledons linear, planoconvex ; radicle short, thick, 

 superior. 



S. indica, Wt. & Arn. Prod. 1. 171 J Fl Br. 1.2.27; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t, 233. 



Western Peninsula from N. Kanara southwards to Malabar, Tra- 

 vancore and the Anamullays ascending to 2,500 ft. in the evergreen 

 forests near Yellapore, N. Kanara, rare. Flowers in Noy. Fruit Jany,-' 

 Feb. 



