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8-5-tootlied or -lobed, persistent^ imbricate. Petals 4-5, oDlong, recurved^ 

 imbricate. Disk orbicular, 5-lobed. Stamens 8-10, free, inserted at the base 

 of the disk. Carpels 5-6, free, seated in the cavity of the disk, one fertile, the 

 rest imperfect; style short, stigma truncate; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal 

 funicle. Drupe small, flesh scanty ; stone crustaceous or bony, 2-valved. Seed 

 gibbous, acute at one end; cotyledons thick; radicle superior. — Distrib. A 

 tropical Asiatic, Australian and Pacific Island genus; species about 20. 



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1. B. latifolia, Roxh, Fl, Ind. ii, 385; leaves usually broadly 



oblong rounded at the tip closely reticulate on both surfaces villous 



pubescent or glabrate beneath, panicle woolly or velvety, flowers crowded. 



Wt. 8f Am. Prodr. i. 169 ; Wall. Cat. 983 ; Bedd. Fl. Syl. 1. 165 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. 



Bomb. FL 52', Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 41; Brandis For. Flor. 127. Spondias 

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Hot, drier parts of India, from Kumaon ascending to 1500 fb., and Oudh, 

 torough Central India and to the Western Peninsula, Birma and Tenasserim. 

 ^ ^A tree 40-50 ft., subdeciduous ; branchlets as thick as the finger. Leaves 6~10 

 in., very coriaceous or hard, nerves 15-20 pairs, stout, nearly straight; petiole J-| in., 

 sto^t, pubescent. Paiiicles terminal and axillary, shorter than the leaves, pyramidal, 

 tranches stout; bracts small, caducous. Flowers \ in. diam., sessile, greenish white. 

 ^(Ayx 5-toothed, Petals oLlong. Disk fleshy. Stamens 10, spreading, as long as the 

 petals. Ovaries one perfect, conical, pubescent, 4 others reduced to filaments. Drupe 

 I in., subglobose, slightly compressed, black ; stone hard, 2-valved, — There is a 

 specimen marked from Malacca in Griffith's Herbarium. 



2. B. angrustlfolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 386; Car. PI iii. t. 2Q2', leaves 



e not narrowed into the petiole glabrous on both surfaces, nerves very 



onear-oblong or elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or rounded at the tip 



^naer, panicles quite glabrous, flowers sessUe. Wall Cat. 982; W. 8f A, 

 fodr. 1C9 ; Grah. Cat. Somh. PI. 41 ; Wight Ic. t. 101. Spondias simpUci- 

 iolia,iJoi«. .Mangifera axillaris, i«mA;. 



_ Western Pkninstila ; the Concan, from the Adjunta Jungles, Graham, south- 

 ards. Ceylon, in the northern parts of the island. 



A tree, perfectly glabrous throughout, branchlets stout. Leaves 4-6 by l|-2 in., 

 at f{f ^^^i^ceous, shining above, delicately reticulate beneath, rounded or acute 

 ^tne base; nerves 12-15 pairs, very slender; petiole f-l^ in., slender. Panicles 

 ^^^57 ^°^ terminal, about as long as the leaves, peduncle and branches slender, 

 Reading. Flowers in small clusters i-| in. diam., quite glabrous, nearly sessile. 

 J^^f 2 in. diam., obliquely spherical— The Malayan and Australian forms referred 

 *o^tUis appear to me to differ much in the leaf-base, narro-wed into the shorter stouter 

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" 1 .^' *■ fflabra, Wall. Cat. 984 ; leaves broadly elliptic or oblong or almost 



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^roicular obtuse or rounded at the tip quite glabrous, base rounded, 

 ;^::^?^^ P^^icle spreading puberulous, flowers sessile. 



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som f * Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., usually quite elliptic and rounded at both ends, 

 Retimes more acute at the base, very coriaceous, upper surface raised between the 

 ^nf' 1 °*^^^ reticulate, lower strongly reticulate shining; nerves 12-15 pairs; 

 in fr v 1 ^® short, 1 in. Panicle shorter than the leaves, rusty puberulous, glabrate 

 bWi '-^-^*^^^^ spreading, rather stout. Flowers ^ in. diam., rather crowded, veiy 

 that T P®*^^^'^^!^^- Pruit unripe, glabrous.— Wallich's are the only specimens of this 

 ahnLt ^^® ^®^^ 5 it is nearest B. augusiifolia, but differs materiaUy in the broad 



ost romided leaves, very short petiole, and puberulous panicle. 



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