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XLV. ANACARDIACEjE. 
[Gluta. 
2 to 5, linear-lanceolate, twice as long. Stamens 4 to 5, as long. 
Gynophore long. Drupe oblong flattened gibbous, 1*5 in. across, 
black. Hab. Forests in hills about 2000 ft. altitude. Perak 
(Kunstler, fide King). Penang Hill, abundant. Distrib. Tenas- 
serim. Native name : Rengas Ayam. 
(5) G. Wrayi King, l.c. 482; Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 
49, p. 16. 
Tree, glabrous except inflorescence. Leaves stiff coriaceous, 
elliptic sub-acute, narrowed to base; nerves 12 to 14 pairs, in¬ 
visible above, faint or slightly elevate beneath, 4 to 6*5 in. long, 
i*6 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles - 6 to *7 in. long. Panicles in upper 
axils 3 in. long, pubescent. Flowers numerous, '4 in. long. Calyx 
half as long as petals, pink. Petals 5, oblong blunt, base clawed, 
puberulous outside, white. Stamens 5, longer. Fruit oblong, 
laterite red 4 to 5 in. long, 3 in. thick, elliptic smooth. Bab. 
Forests, Bindings, Lumut. Perak, Sungei Larut (Wray). 
(6) G. virosa Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 27. 
A large branching tree 50 to 70 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous 
lanceolate, 9 in. long, 2*75 in. wide, acuminate at both ends, blunt; 
nerves about 18 pairs, slightly raised beneath, reticulations fine, 
visible; petioles 2 in. long. Panicles axillary towards the branch- 
tips, 3 to 4 in. long. Calyx-tube spathaceous, red, ’2 in. long, 
split on one side. Petals twice as long, linear-oblong, white. 
Ovary pubescent. Fruit obovoid, smooth, not polished, rough 
light brown, 2*5 to 5 in. long and nearly as wide. Hab. Damp 
forests, Selangor, Rantau Panjang. Perak, Gunong Pondok 
(Kunstler). Bindings, Simpit. Penang, Telok Bahang and Penara 
Bukit (Curtis); Moniot’s Road. Native name: Rengas Kerbau 
Jalang. 
Reputed as exceptionally poisonous. The fruit is often as large as an 
Indian mango, and has a scurfy-brown skin like that of G. coarctata and 
Bengas, but not tubercled. 
6. MEL AN ORRHCE A, Wall. 
Trees, very large, resinous and poisonous. Leaves alternate, 
simple. Panicles in terminal axils. Flowers medium, white 
flushed pink, unisexual. Sepals united into a cap, deciduous. 
Petals 5 to 8, linear-oblong, imbricate. Disc hemispheric or 
columnar. Stamens 5 to 10 or very numerous; filaments slender. 
Ovary stalked, oblique lenticular, i-celled; style lateral. Fruit, 
a dry drupe, sessile or on a long pedicel with the petals developed 
into long spreading pink wings. About 6 species, Indo-Malayan. 
On the poisonous properties of Melanorrhcea, see Gimlette, Malay Poisons, 
P- 44 . 
Petals accrescent in fruit into long pink wings. 
Calyx spathaceous falling off like a cap. 
Stamens 5; bracts small, deciduous . . (1) M. Wallichii 
Stamens 5; bracts large, persistent . * (2) M. Woodsiana 
