6-14 pentandiua monogynia. Many if era, 



ceedingly like bdellium. Laid on the point of a knife and 

 held in (he flame of a candle, it readily melts, catches flame, 

 and burns with a cracking noise: emitting a smell exceeding-- 

 ]y like that of Cashew nuts when roasting. It softens in the 

 mouth, and adheres to the teeth. Its taste is slightly bitter 

 with some degree of pungency. It dissolves almost entirely 

 in spirits, and in a great measure in Mater ; both solutions are 

 milky with a small tinge of brown. 



3. M. sylvatica. R. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolar, glossy. Panicles terminal. 

 Flowers monandrous. Drupe obliquely conic, with the point- 

 ed apex turned one side. 



Lwkshmee am, the vernacular name in Silhet ; on the moun- 

 tains adjoining to that district it grows to be a tall tree of 

 great size. Flowering time October ; the fruit ripens in Fe- 

 bruary and March, and is eaten by the natives, though by no 

 means so palatable as even a bad domestic mango, they also 

 dry them and keep thein for medicinal purposes. 



Leaves as in the common cultivated sorts, alternate, peti- 

 oled, lanceolar, entire and smooth ; from six to eight inches 

 long, by one and a half or two broad. Panicles terminal, much 

 larger than in the domestic sorts, and with the numerous ra- 

 mifications more erect and slender. Flowers very numerous, 

 small, white, with a faint shade of pink ; they are more com- 

 pletely monandrous than any of the cultivated sorts. Calyx 

 five-leaved, many times shorter than the corols. Petals five, 

 linear, spreading, and finally becoming somewhat twisted and 

 revolute. Nectary a short, solid, turbinate, slightly groov- 

 ed, villous receptacle for the germ to rest on. In the domestic 

 sorts it is composed of five distinct glands, which embrace 

 the base of the germ. Filament single, inserted into the pot 

 of the nectary, incurved, length of the pistillum. Anther oval. 

 Germ elevated on the above-mentioned nectary or receptacle, 

 unequally oval, smooth, one-celled ; ovuliun single, attached 

 to that side of the cell from whence the st\ le rises, and most 



