800 A FLORA OF MANILA 
8. MANGIFERA Linnaeus 
Large trees with entire, coriaceous leaves. Flowers small, polygamous, 
in terminal panicles, the pedicels articulate, the bracts small, deciduous. 
Calyx 4- or 5-partite. Petals 4 or 5, free from the disk. Stamens 5, 
one perfect and larger than the others, the other 4 smaller, imperfect. 
Ovary sessile, 1-celled, oblique; style lateral; ovule pendulous. Fruit a 
large fleshy drupe; seed large, compressed, fibrous or smooth. (Malay 
name of the fruit and the Latin “to bear.’’) ’ 
A tropical Asiatic, chiefly Malayan genus, of about 30 species, 4 or 5 
known from the Philippines, a single cultivated one in our area. 
*1. M. INDICA L. Manga (Sp.-Fil.); Mango. 
A large tree, the crown dense, spreading. Leaves oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 10 to 30 cm long. Panicles often as long as or 
exceeding the leaves, pubescent. Flowers yellow, small, 8 to 4 mm long. 
Disk 5-lobed. Perfect stamen 1, the other 4 much reduced. Ovary gla- 
brous. Drupe yellow, fleshy, 10 to 15 cm long, oblong-ovoid, somewhat 
compressed. Seed large, flattened, fibrous. (FI. Filip. pl. 62, M. rostrata.) 
The well known mango, fl. Nov._May, common in Manila and through- 
out the Philippines, introduced. A native of India or Malaya, now cul- 
tivated throughout the tropics. 
4. BUCHANANIA Roxburgh 
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Trees with alternate, simple, entire leaves, the panicles terminal and 
axillary. Flowers small, perfect. Calyx short, persistent, 3- to 5-lobed. 
Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, recurved. Stamens 8 or 10, free. Car- 
pels 5 or 6, free, one fertile, the others imperfect; style short; ovule 
solitary. Drupe small, compressed, with scanty flesh, the stone bony. 
{In honor of Dr. F. Buchanan-Hamilton, a Scotch physician and naturalist.) 
Species about 20, tropical Asia to Australia and Polynesia, 4 or 5 in the 
Philippines, one in our area. 
1. B. arborescens Blume (B. florida Schauer). Balinhasay (Tag.). 
A tree 5 to 10 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves oblong-obovate, 
acute or rounded, base narrowed, 8 to 25 cm long, somewhat crowded toward 
the ends of the branches. Panicles in the uppermost axils, many on each 
branch, 6 to 20 em long, rather narrow. Flowers very numerous, white, 
38 to 4 mm long, the petals reflexed. Fruit red, compressed, suborbicular 
to ovoid, 7 to 10 mm long, the pulp very thin and scanty. (Fl. Filip. pl. 
63, Fagara decandra.) ' 
In thickets, Masambong, San Pedro Macati, etc., fl. Feb—June; very 
common and widely distributed in the Philippines. India to Malaya. 
5. SPONDIAS Linnaeus 
Deciduous glabrous trees. Leaves pinnate, alternate, more or less 
crowded at the tips of the branchlets. Leaflets subopposite. Panicles 
terminal, spreading. Flowers small, polygamous. Calyx small, 4- or 5-fid. 
Petals 4 or 5. Disk cupular, broad, crenate. Stamens 8 or 10 inserted 
beneath the disk. Ovary sessile, free, 4- or 5-celled; styles 4 or 5, conniving; 
ovules solitary, pendulous. Drupe fleshy; stone hard, thick, 1- to 5-celled, 
the cells opening by canals through the top of the stone. (Greek name of 
a tree.) 
