Elteodendrum. pentandria monogynia. 639 



Mangifera glauca. Rotlb. in. Nov. Act. Havn. ii. 534. 

 t.A.f.l. 



A middle-sized, or rather small 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, short-petioled, oblong, and 

 cuneate-oblong, sometimes very acutely, and sometimes ob- 

 tusely serrate; texture hard, with both surfaces polished, 

 the upper shining* ; apex rather obtuse, and always bent 

 down, from three 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 dichotoinous and divaricate. 

 Flowers pedicelled, small, greenish yellow. Bractes small, 

 oblono-, 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. Petals five, expand- 

 ing, linear-oblong, sessile. Nectary 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 

 becomino- 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 acute at the apex than 

 at the base, a little rugose, with two grooves on the opposite 

 sides; uncommonly thick, and hard ; two-celled, though one 



