on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 157 
clearly from the Mangifera. I shall now give the description, which I took 
in Mysore. 
HoLIGARNA LONGIFOLIA. Hort. Beng. 22. 
Tsjiero seu Bibo. Hort. Malab. iv. 20. 
Cheru Taulave. 
Biba Concanz. Buchanan's Mysore, iii. 186. 
Holigarna Carnatze. 
Habitat in Indie sylvis montosis, humidis. 
Arbor verniciflua, succo caustico, venenato, recente albo seu hyalino, exsiccato 
nigricante scutens. Rami cicatricibus obovatis exasperati. Folia alterna, 
apices versus ramulorum conferta, oblonga, cuneata, acuminata, margine 
revoluto integerrima, costata, venis reticulata, glabra, junioribus tamen 
subtus pubescentibus. Petiolus semiteres, brevissimus, denticulo sub- 
ulato patente utrinque apicem versus instructus, non stipulaceus. 
Racemi infrafoliacei, sparsi, simplicissimi, adscendentes, folio breviores, undi- 
- que pilis ferrugineis tecti. Flores diceci, pedicellati, parvi, sparsi, vel ali- 
quando fasciculati, albi. Squamæ in racemo et pedicellis vage. 
Masculini floris calyx minimus, quinquelobus. Petala quinque, ungue lato fere 
coalita, intus barbata, calyci inserta. Filamenta quinque petalis alterna 
et longiora, patentia. Antherce cordate. 
Feminei floris calyx brevissimus, cyathiformis, fundo setosus, ore obsolete 
quinquangularis. Petala quinque, linearia, intus villosa, ungue lato sub- 
coalita, calyci inserta. Filamenta quinque, subulata, brevissima, peri- 
gyna, petalis alterna. Anthere simplices, nescio an fertiles? Germen 
magnum, inferum, compressum. Styli tres, erecti. Stigmata crassa. 
Drupa compressa, monosperma. 
Tani, p. 23. tab. 10. 
In the Hindwi dialect I cannot trace the name Gottinga, said to be used by 
. the Brahmans of Malabar for this tree. According to Rheede, the vulgar in- 
habitants of Malabar reckon this the prototype of the genus Tani, which, 
however, is very unnatural, as this species has no affinity to the following 
plant, which is also called Tani, with a specific name prefixed. As I under- 
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