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20. IME. pollcarpa, Gnf. Notul iv. 416 (polycarpa), t. Ib7, t. ^ (caesia; ; 



I sessile oblanceolate obtusely acuminate faintly reticulated undulate. 



Maiacca, GrifitK 

 , A lurgo tree, like M. faiida ; branclios stout. Leaves nearly 1 foot long, very 

 coriaceous, nerves 20-30 pairs, arched ; petiole \ in., winged, flattened. Flowen 

 unkncwm. Drupe oblong, base rather broader, brown, dusty all over, of a strong- 

 Dorian or Mango taste ; flesh and juice copious acid and pleasant ; stone lanceolate, 

 compressed, coriaceo-fibrous ; embryo obclavate. — Griffith^ from -whom most of the 

 steve description is taken, says that this is the ' Camang,' and that he proposes for it 

 the x\^m^ <^i Mangifera Jpolicarpa (misprinted folycarpa, at p. 416 of the Notulse), 

 in allusion to the russet-coloured fruit, -which is unique in the genus. Judging from 

 the foliafiro. this is nrobablv allied to M. ccesia. 



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Maxgtfera. Pegu, Kur:z n. 2021 ; leaves very like those of M. fragrans in 

 shape and size and -with equally slender petioles ; but the nen'es are far less nume- 

 rous, about 20 pair, arched, very slender, and the under-surface Is far less flnely 

 reticulate, pale brown and quite opaque. 



Maxgifeea. Pegu, Kurz n. 2020; leaves 14-18 by 3^-4 in., narrowly 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate meml)ranous glaucous beneath, finely but not closely 

 reticulate, nerves al)Out 30 pair slender well defined slightly arched, petiole 2-4 in* 

 very slender. — I give this as a Mangifcra on Kurz's authority. 



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Shrul)s or trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, quite entire. Panicles 

 terminal, bracteate. Floxcers small, polygamous. Cali/x 5-partite, segments 

 erect, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, recurved, imbricate. 

 DisJc filling the base of the calyx, erect. Stameiis 8-10, all or some fertile ; 

 filaments connate and adnate to the disk. Ovary obovoid or obcordate ; style 

 filiform, excentric, stigma minute; ovule 1, ascending from a lateral funicle. 

 Nut Mdney-ehaped, seated on a large pyriform fleshy body formed of the 

 enlarged disk and top of the peduncle ; pericarp cellular and full of oil. Seed 

 kidney-shaped, ascending, testa membranous, adherent ; cotyledons seroi-lunar; 

 radicle short, hooked. — Dtstrib. A small tropical American genus, of which 

 one species is naturalised in Asia. .r''^ , 



A. occidentale, Ltnn.-^ DC, Prodr. ii. 62-, leaves obovate or obovate- 

 oblong glabrous obtuse retuse or rounded at the tip, base rounded or cuneate. 

 Moxb. Fl Ltd, ii. 312; Wall. Cat. 990; Wight. ^ Am. Prodr. i. 168; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomh. PL 40; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomh. Flor. Suppl. 18; Griff. Notul. iv. 

 408, t. 5G5, f. 3 <>./. ; Pedd. Fl. Sylv. t. l(i^,~Eheede HoH. Mai. iii. t. 54. 



Hotter parts of Ikdia, especially near the sea. Naturalised from America. 

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A snuvU tree ; trunk short, thick, crooked. Leaves 4-8 by 3-5 in., hard ; nerves 

 about 10 pair, nciirly horizontal; petiole 1-i in. Panicles 6-10 in., pubescent; 

 bmnches long naked to the tips vhero the flowers are collected ; bracts lanceolate, 

 gibbous, hoary. Flowers I in. diam., yellow with pink gtripes. Stamens usually 9, 

 all fertile, one lar^rer than the rest» Fruit 1 in., on a pyriform fleshy receptacle 

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Trees. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous, Rlabrous, quite entire'. Floivcft 



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