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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Sub-Order I. Anacari>iae. Ovary 1-celled (in all 

 the Asiatic species). 



Tribe I. — Mangiferae. Carpels solitary, or 5 

 with only one fertile ; style usually lateral or 

 gynobasic, ovules pendulous, or semi-pen dn- 

 lous (in Anacardium) from a basal funicle ; 

 ovary often with a gynophore ;' stamens in one 

 or more whorl, sometimes reduced to a single 

 individual ; leaves simple. 



Neither sepals nor petals accrescent. 

 Carpels 5, rarely 4 or 6 ; stamens 10 ... 

 Carpel solitary. 

 Leaves opposite 

 Leaves alternate. 



Calyx 4-5-partite, stamens 1 to 5 ; 

 drupe with succulent mesocarp, the 

 endocarp hard and fibrous, the 

 peduncle not enlarged ... 

 Calyx 4-5-partite, stamens 8 to 10 

 all or only a few perfect ; drupe reni- 

 form, compressed, the peduncle much 

 enlai'ged 



Calyx spathaceous, petals 4 to 6 ; 

 torus stipitate, drupe sub-ligneous, 

 tubercled or ridged, the endocarp 

 leathery 

 Petals accrescent. 



Calyx calyptriform ; stamens 5 or numer- 

 ous ... 



Calyx 6-partite ; stamens 5, drupe 

 stalked 

 Tribe II. — BTioideae. Carpels solitary or 3 and 

 united ; styles terminal or lateral, free or con- 

 nate below ; ovary 1-celled ; ovule solitary, 

 rising by a short funicle from the base or 

 from near the base of the cell, or suspended 

 from the wall near the apex ; stamens in 1 or 2 

 whorls ; fruit drupaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded, 

 sometimes with the accrescent calyx-segments 

 at its base (obscurely 2-celled in Drepano- 

 sperm7im) ; embryo usually curved, rarely 

 straight: leaves simple, trifoliolate or pinnate. 

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1. Bqchanania. 



2. BOUEA. 



3. Mangifera. 



4. Anacardium. 



5. Gldta. 



6. Melanorrhoea. 



7. Sw^intonia. 



