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34. ANACARDIACE^. 



\_IIoligarna, 



8. HOLIGARNA, Ham. 



Large trees. Leaves simple, alternate, entire, coriaceous ; petiole 

 with 2-4, deciduous appendages. Panicles axillary or terminal. 

 Flowers small, crowded, dioecious. Calyx 5-toothed, tube cup- 

 shaped. Petals 5, villous in front. Disk lining the calyx-tube. 

 Stamens 5, on the edge of the disk. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; styles 

 3-5, terminal ; ovule pendulous from the top of the cell. Drupe 

 ovoid with resinous, acrid pulp, stone coriaceous. Seed with a 

 membranous tesfca ; cotyledons planoconvex ; radicle minute;i next 

 the hilum. 



Leaves large or medium-sized ; quite glabrous, stipular appendages 2^, 

 Frait altogether included in the torus. 



Leaves cuueate-obovate, usually acute, about 9 

 in, long, nerves about 18 pairs. Disk con- 

 spicuous in the male fl., lobed ... ... 1. H, Arnoftiana-, 



Leaves obovate, usually obtuse, about 6 in. long, 

 nerves about 10 pairs. Disk in male fl. incon- 

 spicuous 2, M'ferruginea., 



Leaves very large, pubescent beneath, stipular 

 appendages usually 4. Fruit nearly included in 

 the torus, l/6thfree d. H, Grahamii. 



1. H. Arnottiana, Hook, f Fl. Br. I. 2. 36 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 51 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 167. JSoUgar, hoolgeri, K. ; SudrahUo^ M. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. In the evergreen 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, common. Fl. Jan. -Feb. Fr. 

 June- July. 



A large evergreen Iree. Wood grey, with large yellow patches rather 

 lustrous and satiny, soft. Pores large and medium, scattered, appearing as 

 long dark lines on the longitudinal section. Med, rays mediun -sized, 

 rather short, close and numerous. Weighs 32 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used in 

 N. Kanara for native boats, and would do well for light packing cases, cigar 

 boxes and such like uses. The structure of the wood is very similar to 

 that of IS. longifolia, Roxh, Described by Gamble in his Indian Timbers. 



2. H. ferruginea, Marchand Rev. Anacard. 171; FL Br. I. 2. 37; 

 Monogr. Phaner. Prod. DO. Anacard. Eng. 499. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards, common along the 

 coast, where it takes the place of H, Arnottiana, with which species it has 

 often been confounded. Fl. March-May. Fr. Rainy season. It has the 

 same native names as the foregoing species. In my specimens the 

 flowers are, if anything, smaller than those of H. Jirnottianci, and the 

 buds not so ferruginous as in that species. 



3. F. Grahamii, Hook. f. Fl. Br. I. 2. 37. Semeoarjous Qrahamiiy Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 52. Biyte^ halwuli, M. 



Western Peninsula, Konkan and N. Kanara, common in the evergreen 

 forests of the Belgaum Ghdts. Fl. Jan. -Feb. Fr. May-June. 



