Buchanania. decandrii monogvnia. 385 



1. B. latifolia. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves oval. 



Sans, and Beng. P^■yala, 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 

 Bazars. 



Teling. Charoo-maraudee. 



Mowdo, or Kat^■ mango-marura of the Tarauls. It 

 must have been the Teliuga and Taraul names, which in- 

 duced Konig to call this tree Mangifera silvestris. 



Larmzon. Buck, 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-* 

 er, 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. Calyx 

 inferior, five-toothed, permanent. Petals five, oblong, 

 spreading. Nectary double ; exterior^ a fleshy, ten-notch- 

 ed yellow ring surrounding the base of the germ ; interior, 

 consisting of four subulate bodies, placed on one side of 

 the germ, aiid within the exterior ring ; they are about as 

 long as the whole pistil, and look like four additional 

 styles. Filaments ten, equal, spreading, nearly as long 

 as the petals, inserted into the outside of the base of the 

 exterior nectary. Anthers ovate. Germ conical, hairy, 

 one-celled, containing one ovula, attached to the bot- 

 tom 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 subulate. Stigma simple. Drupe 



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