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[Mangifera. 
with a thickened ridge at base. Stamen 1; staminodes very small. 
Style very long, filiform. Hob. Malacca (Maingay). Only his 
specimens known. 
4. ANACARDIUM, Rottb. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate simple, coriaceous. Panicle 
terminal. Flowers medium-size. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes 
narrow. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate. Disc filling calyx-tube. 
Stamens 8 to 10; filaments connate, adnate to disc. Ovary 
oblique-ovoid; style filiform, excentric; ovule 1. Nut reniform 
on a large fleshy pear-shaped body formed of disc and top of 
peduncle. Seed reniform. A few American species. 
(1) A. occidentale Linn. Sp. PI. 548; King, l.c. 479. 
Straggling low tree about 20 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous, obovate, 
blunt or retuse, base cuneate; nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 4 to 9 in. 
long, 3 to 5 in. wide; petioles *5 to 75 in. long. Panicle 6 or 8 in. 
long, branched, puberulous. Flowers -5 in. long, white turning 
pink. Fruit about 1 in. long, grey; peduncle 4 in. long, 2 in. wide 
at top in good fruit, usually very much smaller in the wild form, 
yellow, flushed pink. Hab. Thoroughly established in sandy spots 
by the sea. Singapore. Pahang River. Tringganu. Setul. Native 
names: The Cashew-nut; Bua Gajus; Janggus; Kaju; Jambu 
Monyet. s 
It is rarely, if ever, cultivated now here, but appears to have been intro¬ 
duced from South America in the sixteenth century, and has run wild in 
sandy places. The peduncle and kernel of seed are eaten. 
5 . GLUT A, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves oblong, simple. Panicles in terminal 
axils. Flowers medium-size, white or pink, bisexual. Calyx 
spathaceous, splitting irregularly, caducous. Petals 4 to 6, im¬ 
bricate. Disc elongate. Stamens 4 to 6, on disc. Ovary sessile 
or stipitate, oblique, i-celled; style lateral. Stigma simple. 
Drupe large or small, usually fleshy, brown and tubercled or smooth 
very resinous. About 6 species, Burmese and Malayan. Very 
poisonous trees, latex clear becoming varnish-like black and pro¬ 
ducing in many people a severe erysipelas-like poisoning. (See 
Gimlette, Malay Poisons, p. 47, Ridley, Malay Medical Journal, 
ix. 7.) 
Petals four times as long as the calyx, white; tree , (1) G. Benghas 
Petals twice as long as calyx. 
Leaves broad, often cordate at base; shrub; fruit 
brown, warty . . . . . . (2) G. coarctata 
Leaves narrowed to base. 
Leaves 3 by 1*25 in.; panicle dense; fruit globose, 
black.. . (3) G. Ianeeolata 
Leaves 5*5 by 2-5 in. or less; fruit oblong flattened, 
black. (4) G. elegans 
