XLV. ANACARDIACEiE. 
543 
Semecarpus.] 
•5 in. long, 1 in. wide; swollen peduncle cup-shaped, *25 in. long. 
Hab. Open country, Selangor, Ulu Selangor (Ridley). Setul. 
Distrib. Puket. 
(5) S. lucens King, he. 510. 
Tree 40 to 70 ft. tall, 10 to 15 in. through, glabrous. Leaves 
elliptic, tip rounded or shortly abruptly acuminate, base rounded 
or shortly cuneate, slightly oblique, edges thickened; nerves 10 
to 16 pairs, broad elevate beneath yellow and reticulations con¬ 
spicuous, 4 to 7’5 in. long, 2 to 3'25 in. wide; petioles 75 to 2 in. 
long. Panicles terminal lax, peduncled, 10 in. long; branches 
slender, 4^5 in. long; branchlets *5 in. long. Flowers yellow 
■15 in. across, pedicelled, glabrous except disc. Males, calyx cupular 
flat, teeth 5 ovate acute. Petals 5 ovate-lanceolate acute. Females 
larger, fewer on smaller panicles. Drupe obliquely ovoid, com¬ 
pressed, rusty-puberulous, about *5 in. across. Hab. Hill forests, 
Perak, Larut from below 100 to 3000 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
15 . DRACONTOMELUM, Bl. 
Trees, moderately large. Leaves unequally pinnate. Panicles 
in terminal axils, long, much-branched. Flowers medium-sized 
bisexual. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, sub-valvate. Disc large 
cup-shaped crenulate. Stamens 10 at disc base. Ovary sessile, 
5-celled; styles 5, connate at tips; ovules solitary in cells. Drupe 
globose, fleshy; stone hard, 2- to 5-celled. Seeds compressed. 
About 5 species, tropical Asia and Polynesia. 
(1) D. mangiferum Bl. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 231, 
fig. 42; Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 43; King, he. 513. 
A spreading tree, 30 to 100 ft. tall. Branches tomentose. 
Leaves 12 to 20 in. long; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs, thinly coriaceous, 
light green, elliptic-oblong acuminate, lower ones ovate-oblong, 
shorter, glabrous except for the midrib, sometimes puberulous 
beneath with tufts of hair in the nerve-axils; nerves 9 to 12 pairs, 
4 to 9 in. long, 175 to 275 in. wide; petiolules ‘2 in. long. Panicles 
2 ft. long or less, pubescent. Flowers *3 in. long, white. Stamens 
brown. Drupe depressed-globose, 1 in. through, green. Hab. 
Low ground by rivers, Malacca (Griffith, Maingay); Panchur; 
Ayer Panas (Derry); Perak, Ulu Bubong and Chanderiang (Kunst¬ 
ler). Pahang, Raub (Foxworthy). Temengoh, river-bank. Penang 
Hill (Maingay) possibly planted here. Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 
Native names: Poko Sakai; Bua Chan Kuang; Sangkuang. 
Use: The fruit is eaten by Malays with fish. It may have been 
planted in some of these localities, but I think it is indigenous 
in most localities given. 
