470 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Ion Of as the sepals, oblong, with 3 to 5 conflaent vertical ridges. Stamen 

 1, short ; the staminodes minute, tooth-like. Ovary globose ; the style 

 short, subulate, sub-terminal. Fruit unknown. Engler in DC. Men. 

 Phan. IV, 208. 



Malacca : Main gay, No. 472. 



I have never seen this, and the foregoing description of it is com- 

 piled from Sir Joseph Hooker who makes the following note : — 



" There appear to be two varietiea of this in Maingay's Herbarium ; 

 one (called Sapoong or Sampong), with larger leaves not narrowed into the petiole, 

 opaque above, with sank nerves, tumid between the nerves ; the other (marked as 

 truly wild) with brown (when dry) more shining leaves, narrowed into the petiole, 

 more reticulated beneath, and the nerves not arunk; its leaves are like those of 

 M. indica. from which its glabrous pedicelled flowers and warted petals at once 

 distinguish it ; both differ from M. qttadrifida in the inflorescence. The first variety 

 has, according to Maingay, globose green fruit 3-4 by 2^-3 in." 



5. Mangifera andamanica, King n. sp. A perfectly glabrous 

 tree ; young branches slender and with pale bark. Leaves drying very 

 pale, broadly oblanceolate or obovate-elliptic, the apex rounded or 

 obtuse, gradually narrowed from above the middle to the broad 

 channelled petiole ; both surfaces finely reticulate, shining, the lower 

 paler : main nerves 10 or 12 pairs, curving upwards, slightly promi- 

 nent on the lower surface ; length 3"25 to 4"6 in., breadth 125 to 2 in. ; 

 petiole '5 to "75 in., thickened in its lower half. Panicles terminal, 

 twice as long as the leaves or even three times as long, branching from 

 the base, the branches spreading, lax, the flowers borne at the extrem- 

 ities of the slender ultimate branchlets. Floorers '3 in. in diam., quite 

 glabrous, on pedicels about as long as themselves ; bracteoles if any 

 deciduous. Sepals 4, lanceolate, slightly unequal, sub-concave. Petals 

 4, twice as long as the sepals, ovate-elliptic, with 5 sub-confluent ridgea 

 on the lower half of the inner surface. Stamen 1, shorter than the 

 petals, inserted on the inner edge of the fleshy deeply 4-lobed disc. 

 Ovary sub-globose : style sub-terminal, nearly as long as tlie petals. 

 Brnpe elliptic, glabrous, nearly 1'5 in. long when ripe, the pulp thin, 



Andaman Islands : King's Collectors. 



A very distinct species nllied to M. Maingayi, Hook, fil., but with 

 smaller more obtuse leaves and larger flowers than that species. 



6. Mangifbra longipetiolata, King n. sp. A glabrous tree 40 

 to 60 feet high ; young branches rather stout, with pale brown bark. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, tapering to both ends, the 

 apex shortly acuminate, gradually narrowed in the lower third to the 

 long petiole, both surfaces pale when dry and distinctly reticulate; 

 main nerves 16 to 20 pairs, slender, slightly prominent on both surfaces, 

 spreading, cui'ving, the midrib very prominent and strong on the lower 



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