Materials for a Plora of the Malayan Peninsula. 471 



surface ; length 7-5 to 10 in., breadth 2 25 to 3-75 in. ; petiole 2 to 4-5 

 in., thickened and dilated neai- the base. Panicles quite glabrous, 

 axillary and tei'miiinl, branching from tlie very base ; the branches few, 

 ascending, and with short lateral racemoid branehlets bearing 8 to 12 

 pedicellate flowers near their ends. Flnivers '15 in. in diam., their 

 pedicels rather longer than themselves, with 1 or 2 minute bracteoles 

 at their bases. Sepals 4, ovate-laticeolate, rather unequal. Petals 4, 

 larger than the sepals, elliy)tic, thickened near the base by 3 broad 

 vertical tuberculate ridges. Stamen 1, a little shorter than the petals, 

 inserted on the obscurely lobed cupnlav fleshy disc, the anther elliptic. 

 Ovary sub-globular with slightly lateral slender style. Drupe unknown. 



Perak : at an elevation of about 2,50U feet; King's Collector, No. 

 7266. 



This resembles M. quadrific/a. Jack, but the ultimate branehlets of 

 the panicle are longer, the flowers are more numerous and ai-e racemose 

 instead of being cymose as in M. quadrifida. The petioles moreover are 

 longer in this, and are dilated near the base ; the main nerves of the 

 leaves are more prominent and the reticulations are larger and more 

 distinct, while the midrib is much stouter and more prominent on the 

 lower surface. This grows at higher elevations than M. quadrifida. 

 In the great length of its petioles this resembles M. longipes, Griff. ; but 

 that has 5-merous flowers, whereas flowers of this are 4-merous. 



7. Mangifera quadrifida. Jack in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 

 440. A tree 40 to 60 feet higli, all parts quite glabrous. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-oblong or obloni^-lanceolate, tapering from about the 

 middle to the sub-acute apex and much attenuate base ; reticulations 

 faint on both surfaces, but specially on the upper : main nerves 16 to 18 

 pairs, spreading, curved, slightly- prominent ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 

 1-75 to 25 in. ; petiole 75 to 2*5 in. ; petiole '75 to 12 in. Panicles from 

 the uppermost axils, often crowded or terminal, exceeding the leaves, not 

 pedunculate, branching from near the base, the branches semi-erect, with 

 very short lax 3-flowered cymose branehlets. Flowers '15 in. in diam. on 

 pedicels about their own length. Sepals 4, broadly ovate, obtuse, mi- 

 nutely pubei-ulous, spi-eading. Petals 4, twice as long as the sepals 

 elliptic, sub-acute, glabrous, with 3 confluent vertical ridges in the lower 

 half, the middle one thickened at the apex. Stamen 1, from the inner side 

 of one of the four deep lobes of the fleshy disc, shorter than the petals 

 the anther small. Ovary bi'oadly ovoid, glabrous ; the style terminal 

 as long as the stamen, thickened at the base. Staminodes none. Drupe 

 roundish (becoming very dark-coloured, Jack). Wall. Cat. 8489; Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 16 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 206. 



Penang : Jack. Malacca : Maingay, No. 468. Perak : King's Collec- 

 tor, Nos. 2693, b441. 



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