Flora Medica

ANACARDIACE.7E.grateful of all fruits. Its flesh is filled with a rich luscious juice but;the inferior kinds have also so much turpentine flavour as to be uneatable.From wounds made in the bark, there issues a soft reddish, browngum resin, which age hardens, and renders exceedingly like bdellium.Burnt in the flame of a candle, it emits a smell like that of Cashewnuts when roasting. It softens in the mouth, and adheres to the teeth.Its taste is slightly bitter with some degree of It pungency.dissolvesalmost entirelyin spirits, and in a great measure in water ;both solutionsare milky with a small tinge of brown. Roxb.HOLIGARNA.Flowers polygamous-dioecious. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5,from a broad base, contiguous, oblong, spreading. Stamens 5,shorter than the corolla. Ovary (in the hermaphrodite flowers)connate with the tube of the calyx, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; ovulesuspended on one side from near the apex of the cell. Styles1-3 from the top of the ovary. Fruit inferior, oval; pericarpthick, somewhat fleshy, containing cells full of thick acrid juice.Seed with a transverse embryo. Trees. Leaves stalked, alternate,oblong, acute or acuminate, entire, glabrous, or whenyoung with a short rusty-coloured pubescence. W. and A.chiefly.!585. H. longifolia Roxb. corom. iii. t. 282. fi.ind. ii. 80. DC.(|prodr. ii. 63. W. and A. i. 169. (Rheede iv. t. 9.) Travancoreand Malabar.Leaves cuneate, oblong or acute; petioles usually with a subulatesoft, incurved, thorn-like, deciduous process on each side about themiddle. Panicles terminal and axillary ; styles recurved ; stigmascrescent-shaped. W. and A. Similar in its properties to Stagmariaverniciflua, No. 594.ANACARDIUM.Flowers polygamous. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, deciduous ;segmentserect : estivation imbricative. Petals 5, linear, acuminate,recurved. Receptacle filling up nearly the whole tube ofthe calyx, and combining the bases of the stamens and petals.Stamens about 9 or 10, 1-4- of them in the male flowers fertile,and twice as long as the others, which are usually sterile : filamentsconnate at the base and with the base of the petals.Ovary free, sessile, oblique, 1 -celled. Style solitary, somewhaton one side, filiform, curved. Fruit compressed, somewhat coriaceous,on the top of the enlarged elevated stalk-like pyriformreceptacle : pericarp containing in its substance cells full of anacrid juice. Seed erect. Cotyledons semi-lunate, fleshy, planoconvex.Radicle curved.586. A. occidentale Linn. sp. 548. Jacg. amer. i. 1. 181. f. 35.282