BUCHANANIA. TEREBINTHACEÆ. 169 
IH. HOLIGARNA. Roxb. 
Flowers polygamous-dicecious. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, from a broad 
base, contiguous, oblong, spreading. Stamens 5, shorter than the corolla. 
Ovarium (in the bisexual flowers) connate with the tube of the calyx, 1-celled, 
l-ovuled: ovule suspended on one side from near the apex of the cell. 
Styles 1-3 from the top of the ovary. Fruit inferior, oval; pericarp thick, 
somewhat fleshy, containing between its lamina cells full of thick acrid juice. 
Seed with a transverse embryo. Cotyledons thick, broader than long: radi- 
cle from the broad side of the cotyledons, opposite to the hilum.— Trees. 
Leaves petioled, alternate, oblong, acute or acuminated, entire and quite en- 
tire, glabrous or when young with a short rusty-coloured pubescence. 
524. (1) H. longifolia (Roxb.:) leaves cuneate, oblong or acute: petioles 
usually with a subulate soft incurved thorn-like deciduous proeess on each 
side about the middle: panicles terminal and axillary : styles recurved: stig- 
mas lunate.— Rozb, Cor. 3. t. 282 ; fl. Ind. 2. p. 80; DC. prod. 2. p. 63; Spr. 
Mal i p. 935 ; Wight! cat. n. 525, 526.— Rheed. Mal. 4. t.9—T ravancore. 
E 
H. racemosa, Roxb., is distinguished by the leaves narrower, flowers ra- 
cemose, one short style, and a capitate stigma. E 
IV. BUCHANANIA. Rozb. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, obtusely 5- (occasionally 3-4-) cleft, 
persistent. Petals 5, inserted under the disk, oblong, sessile, recurved. | Sta- 
mens 10, inserted under the disk, shorter than the corolla, distinct, spread- 
ing. Disk orbicular, 10-crenated at the margin. Pistilla 5 ; four abortive, 
being mere styles; one fertile with a 1-celled 1-ovuled ovary immersed in 
the disk: ovule pendulous from a longish curved podosperm rising from the 
base of the cell. Style subulate. Stigma obtuse. Fruit a compressed ovoid- 
globose drupe: sarcocarp thin, slightly fleshy: nut very hard, 2-valved, 
l-celled. Seed with a transverse embryo. Cotyledons thick.— Trees. Leaves 
alternate, simple, entire and quite entire.  Panicles terminal and axillary to- 
Wards the summit of the branches. Flowers small, greenish-white. 
525. (1) B. latifolia (Roxb.:) leaves broadly oval or obovate, obtuse: 
branches of the panicles hirsute, with the flowers crowded.— Roxb. Al. Ind. 2. 
P. 385; in E. T. C. mus. tab. 103; DC. prod. 2. p. 64; Wall.! L. n. 983; 
Wight! cat. n. 527, 528.— Spondias elliptica, Rottl./— —Mountainous parts of 
€ coast. 
. . 526. (2) B. angustifolia (Roxb. :) leaves linear-oblong, obtuse or emargi- 
nate: cei ene pani ead es with the flowers lax.—Roeb. Cor. 3. 
t. 262 ; fl. Ind. 2. p. 986 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 64; Spr. syst. 2. p. 813; Wall. ! L. 
n. 982; Wight! cat. n. 529, 530.—Cambessedea . ...... Kunth.—Spondias 
lacjPeifolia, Rottl.! in Willd. nov. ac. nat. cur. Ber. 4. p. 87.—Mangifera axil- 
3 . 
V. MANGIFERA. Linn.; Gertn. fr. t. 100; Lam. ill. t. 138. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-partite, deciduous. Petals 4-5, inserted 
under the torus, furnished on the inside with a lobed glandular scale or crest : 
estivation imbricative. Stamens arising from the torus: 1 (or occasionally 
2) fertile, ascending, opposite to one of the lower sepals, with a subulate 
fleshy filament about as long as the style: the others sterile (usually 3 or 4, 
Sometimes more), slender, minute, tipped with a small gland. Torus a thick 
