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Materials for a Flofa of the Malayan Peniiisula. 



Phan.IV, 239. B. Gandaria, Blame Mua. Bot. Lngd. Bat. I, 204, (sub 



jB. oppositifolia.^ 



Malacca : Gi-iffifch, No. 1105 ; Maingay, No. 478. Pei-ak : Scorte-. 



cliini, No. 1938 ; King's Collector, No. 679. 



This species lias larger leaves and frnit tlian B. burmauica, and 



the panicles are much mere densely flowered than in that species. 



The calyx moreover in this is very tomentose, and the petals are 



narrow oblanceolate and spreading. 



3. Mangifera, Linn. 

 Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, quite entire, coriaceous. Floioers 

 small, polygamous, in terminal panicles, pedicel articulate ; bracts deci- 

 duous. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4-5, free or adnata 

 to the disc, imbricate ; nerves thickened, sometimes ending in excrescen- 

 ces. Stamens 1-5, rai'ely 8, inserted just witliin the disc, or on it, 1 

 usually more perfect and much larger than the others ; the others with 

 imperfect or smaller anthers, or reduced to teeth or quite absent. Ovary 

 sessile, 1-celled, oblique; style lateral ; ovule pendulous; funicle basal, or 

 inserted on the side of the cell above its base, rarely horizontal. Drupe 

 large, fleshy ; stone compressed, fibrous. Seed large, compressed, testa 

 papeiy ; cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal and lobed. — DiSTRiB. 

 tropical Asiatic, chiefly Malayan ; about 30 species. 

 Disc fleshy, tumid, more or less deeply 4- or 5-lobed, 

 the petals inserted at its base. 



Sepals and petals 4, stamen 1. 

 Panicles puberulpus, 



Leaves narrowly elliptic or elliptic-ob- 

 long, tapering much to each end, thinly 

 coriaceous ; petioles 1 to 1'25 in long ... 

 Leaves elliptic, sub-coriaceous, petioles 

 *25 to "4 in. long 



Leaves broadly elliptic, slightly obo- 

 vate, thickly coriaceous ; petioles '25 to 

 •75 in. long ... .,. .., 



Panicles quite glabrous. 



Leaves not reticulate, or very indis- 

 tinctly so on the lower surface only 

 Leaves distinctly reticulate. 



Leaves broadly oblanceolate or obo- 

 vate-elliptic ... ... ... 



Leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate. 

 752 



1. M. GriJJithn. 



2. M. 'niicrophylla. 



4. M. sclerophylla. 



5. M. Maingayi. 

 5. M. andamanica. 



