Buchanania. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 385 
1. B. latifolia. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves oval. 
- Sans. and Beng. Piyala, the name of the tree. 
Hind, Peeyar, Peeyal, Piyala. 
Sans. Chirika, the name of the fruit. 
Beng. Chirongi, the name of the fruit, as sold in the 
eccicin. 
Teling. Charoo-mamudee. 
Mowdo, or Kati mango-marum of the Tamuls. It . 
_ Inust have been the Telinga and Tamul names, which in- 
_ duced Konig to call this tree Mangifera silvestris. 
Larmzon. Buch. in Asiat. Res. 5. p. 123. 
A large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of the 
coast. It flowers in January and February. 
Trunk strait, thick, and of a great height. Bark sca- 
brous. Branches numerous, spreading in every directi- 
on, Leaves alternate, though sometimes three-fold, short- 
petioled, oval, oblong, or obovate, obtuse, entire, of a 
hard texture, pretty smooth, above scabrous, below soft- 
ét, six or seven inches long, and about four broad, Sti- 
pules none. Panicles terminal, and from the exterior 
axils, erect, branchy, conical. Bractes small, caducous. 
Flowers very numerous, small, of a whitish green, ia 
inferior, five-toothed, permanent. Petals five, o 
spreading. Nectary double ; exterior, a fleshy 
ed yellow ring surrounding the base of the , 
Consisting of four subulate bodies, placed on one side of 
the germ, and within the exterior ring4 they are about as 
long as the whole pistil, and look/like four additional 
_ Styles. Filaments ten, equal, sprfading, nearly as long 
as the petals, inserted into the outside of the base of the 
€Xterior nectary. Anthers ovate Germ conical, hairy, 
Sne-celled, containing one ovula, attached to the bot- 
‘om of the cell by a long curved cord, which takes near- : 
ly a turn round the ovula, and enters it on the middle of 
the opposite side, Style aah Stigma simple. 1 
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