Materials for a Plora of thn Malayan Peninsula. 473 



I.) ; Dalz. and Gibs Bomb. Flor. 51 ; Bofc. Mag. t. 4510 ; Brandis For. 

 Flor. 125; Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. IF, 13: Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 

 304 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 199. i/. domesHca, Gaertn. Fiuct. 

 t. 100.— Rbeede Hort. Mai. IV, t. 1, 2. 



In all the Provinces, but planted ; truly wild only in hot valleys 

 in the mountain ranges of Biitish India : known as the " Mango " to 

 Europeans in the British India, the commonest vernacular Indian name 

 being Am. An immense number of varieties are in cultivation, 



10. Mangifera oblongifolia, Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 16. A 

 very large and perfectly glabrous tree ; young branches stout. Leaves 

 very coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, or linear-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, 

 the margins sub-undulate, the base sub-cuneate ; main nerves 18 to 

 25 pairs, spreading, curved, reticulations faint on the upper and obsolete 

 on the lower surface ; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 15 to 2 5 in. ; petiole 

 125 to 2 in. Panicle large, the branches widely spreading, bi- or tri- 

 cbotomously laxly-branched. Floioers '25 in. in diam., on pedicels -15 

 to -25 in. long, stout. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, veined. Petals 5, twice 

 as long as the sepals, elliptic-oblong, with 3 to 5 short vertical ridges 

 confluent at the base into a tubercle. Stameyis 5, all bearing anthers, but 

 only one fertile longer than the others. Ovary sub-globose, style sub- ter- 

 minal. Fruit ovoid, dull green, 4 in. long. Engler in DO. Mon. Phan. 

 IV, 16. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1101 ; Maingay, No. 470. Cultivated. 

 A species, according to Maingay, cultivated under the name of the 

 " Quenee Mango." 



11. Mangifbra longipes. Griff. Notul. IV, 419. A tree: young 

 branches slender, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly acuminate, the edges minutely sub-undulate, the base 

 narrowly cuueate, both surfaces shining ; main nerves ^16 to 20 pairs, 

 sub-horizontal, thin but distinct on botli surfaces (some of the inter- 

 mediate towai-ds the apex almost as distinct) : length 5 to 8 in., breadth 

 1'5 to 2 in.; petiole -75 to 1*75 in., slender. Panicles terminal, longer 

 than the leaves, slendez-, with lax spreading branches, quite glabrous. 

 Flowers nearly "2 in. in diam., in ultimate cjmules, on pedicels longer than 

 themselves. -Sepals 5, ovate, acute, with membranous edges and a few 

 hairS near the midrib on the back. Petals 5, longer tlian the sepals, 

 linear-oblong, blunt, the apices reflexed, the base with a single ridge 

 branching upwards. Stamen 1, longer tlian the petals, staminodes 

 several. Ovary broadly ovoid, sub-compressed : style sub- lateral, as 

 long as the petals. Fruit unknown. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 15 ; 

 Engler in DC Mon. Phan. IV, 20l. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1096 ; Maingay, No. 467. 



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