Eleodendrum. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 639 
Mangifera glauca, Rotib. in. Nov. Act, Hawn. ii. 534, 
to. fo 1. 
A middle-sized, or rather soph tree, native of various parts 
of India, From Ceylon it was received into the Botanic gar- 
den at Calcutta, under the name Ceylon tea; its leaves are 
like those of that plant but much longer ; their taste slightly 
bitter and astringent. It flowers in May ; the seeds ripen in 
September and October. 
Trunk straight. Bark in young trees, smooth, and olive- 
coloured. Branches numerous, spreading in every direction, 
and forming a very dense, oval head ; young shoots round, 
and smooth. Leaves opposite, Saticcéoled, oblong, and 
cuneate-oblong, sometimes very acutely, and sometimes ob- 
tusely serrate; texture hard, with both surfaces polished, 
the upper dein ; apex’ rather obtuse, and always bent 
down, from thrid to four inches long, and about two broad, 
Stipules a minute scale on each side of the inside of the base 
of each short, polished petiole. Panicles axillary, shorter 
than the leaves; all its divisions dichotomous and divaricate, 
Flowers pedicelled, small, greenish yellow. Bractes small, 
oblong, from one to three, at the base of each pedicel, and at 
the divisions of the panicle. Calyx of five, somewhat une- 
qual, round, concave, caducous leaflets, Peta/ls five, ex pand- 
ing, linear-oblong, sessile. Neetary a green, pentagonal, 
fleshy, scolloped gland, in which a great part of the germ is 
immersed. Filaments five, inserted on the nectary, scarcely 
half the length of the petals ; at first nearly erect, but by age 
becoming so much revolute as to bring the roundish, two- 
lobed anthers under the calyx. Germ superior, immersed 
in the very large, green, fleshy nectary, two-celled, with two 
“ ovula in each, attached to the bottom of their cells. Style 
short, conic. Stigma simple, obtuse. Drupe nearly round, 
size of a large cherry, smooth, pulpy, when ripe olive-colour- 
ed, one-celled. Nut oval, rather more aeute at the apex than 
at the base, a little rugose, with two grooves on the opposite 
_ sides; uncommonly ne hard ; two-eelled, though one 
