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Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 1G2 ) Wall Cat. 8487 {excl. D. G. ^ L) ; Dalz. 8r Gibs. 

 Bwnh, Flor. 51 ; JDoL Mag. t 4510 ; Brandts For. Flor. 125. M. domestica^ 

 Qaerin. Fruct. t 100.— Bheede Jffort. Mai. iv. t. 1, 2. 



TfiOPiCAL Himalaya; alt. 1-3000 ft. from Kumaon to Ehobm Hills and vallejff 

 of Behab, the Khasia Mts., Birma, Oudh, and Western Peninsula from Kan- 

 deish south-wjirds.— DisTKiB. Cultivated as far west as Muscat, in all Eastern tropi- 

 cal Asia, and generally in jthe tropics. 



A large tree, glabrous, except the panicle ; tranches -widely spreading. Leaves 

 6-16 in., very variable in Lreadth, crowded at the ends of the branches, acute, acu- 

 minate or obtuse, shining, nerved, quite entire, margins often undulate ; petiole 1-4 

 in., swollen at the Imse. Panicles a foot and more, pubescent, rarely glabrato ; bracts 

 elliptic, concave. Flowers yellow, odorous, subsessilc, rarely pedicelled, $ and § 

 on the same panicle. Sefah ovate, oblong, concave. Petals twice as long, ovate, 

 ridges 3-5, orange. Disk fleshy, 5-lobed. Stamen 1, inserted upon the disk, filament 

 subulate; anther purple. Oya;^ glal^rous. Drupe 2-6 in., compressed, yellow.— It 

 is often difficult to say whether so common a tree is wild or not in a given locality, 

 but there seems to be little doubt but that it is indigenous in the localities enume- 

 rated above. Amongst the varieties, those with an almost glabrous panicle from the 

 Western Peninsula look the most unlike the ordinary cultivated form. One Maisor 

 specimen has leaves 10 by 1^ in., much resembling those of M. ohlongifolia, Wallich'& 

 8487 D. is a Sorindeia, a Madagasatr plant accidentally intermixed ; 8487 G, is 

 Buchananial acuminata {JValL Cat, 981), and 8487 I. is, I suspect, M. sylvatica. 



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. oaloneurai Kurz in Beng. As. Soc. Journ. 1873, ii. 66 ; leaves 

 oWon^ or oblong-lanceolate finely reticulated l)etweea tlie nerves acuminate, 

 panicle spreading tomentose, flowrers crowded sessile, petals 5 with 3 ridges, 

 stamens I or 2 fertile, ovary rough, style lateral or basal. 



Martaban, Kurz, 



A moderate sized tree. Leaves 4-6 by \\-\% in., equally reticulated on both sur- 

 faces between the 16-20 pairs of arching nerves ; petiole |-1 in., much thickened at 

 ^ the base. Panicle tomentose throughout. Flowers much as in M. indica^ the re- 

 flexeJTpetals ha^ng 3 ridges. (Fruit as largo as a hen's egg, subreniform, smooth^ 

 obtuse, yellow, sweet and acid, Kurz). — My specimens of this are imperfect ; it is 

 evidently very nearly indeed allied to M, indica, diifering chiefly in the very fine re- 

 ticulation of the leaves, as pointed out by Kurz. "Wallich's M. iiidica, 8487 H. from 

 Tavoy is possibly the same. 



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. pentandx^, Soak. f. ; leaves oblong or ohlong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate reticulated on both surfaces, panicle spreading tomentose, flowers crowded 

 Buheessile, petals 5 with 3 ridges, stamens 6 perfect, ovary smooth, style suV 

 terminal. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A tree. Leaves 5-12 by 2-4 in., quite similar to those of M. indica^ as are the 

 panicles and flowers, except that Maingay describes the disk as more fully and 

 fairly developed than in any form he had figured. The 5 stamens are all perfect 

 and unequal. The pet'ils are yellowish- white, with yellow brown ridges. Maingay 

 figures the st^lo as nearly terminal, and the ovule as quite laterally suspended. — The 

 Malay name is * Mam ploni,' which means mango ripened artificially. 



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 leaves small oblong or oblong-oDovate obtuse reticulate between f 

 inflorescence of many suberect compound pubescent racemes, petals 4 

 oblong not much exceeding the sepals, stamen 1. 



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