Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsnia. 475 



con'aceons, elliptic-oblong to broadly-elliptic, sometimes sHglitly obovate, 

 obtuse or sub-acute, the base slightly cuneate, both surfaces pale when 

 dry and with the reticulations indistinct or obsolete : main nerves 16 

 to 18 pairs, bold, sub-lioi*izontal ; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 3"5 to 6 in. ; 

 petiole '7b to 2 "25 in., stout especially in its lower half. Faniclcs 

 terminal or axillary, pedunculate, as long as or longer than the leaves, 

 puberulous or glabrous, blood-red when fresh, black when dry ; the 

 branches stout, sub-erect and bearing scattered cymose branchlets, 

 bracteoles minute. Flotvers "35 in. in diam., pinkish ; pedicels very short, 

 minutely bracteolate at the base. Sepals 6, thick, ovate- lanceolate, 

 sub-acute, glabrous. Petals 5, linear-oblong, acute, twice as long as the 

 sepals, reflexed from about the middle, with an elongated 2- or 3-fid 

 thickening near the base and a short filiform basal claw. Stamens 5, 

 but only 1 perfect and nearly as long as the petals, the others shorter, 

 unequal and imperfect. Disc cyliudric. Ovary sub-ovoid, glabrous ; 

 style slender, lateral. Drupe elliptic to globose, varying in form, 

 oblique, green, 3 or 4 in. long. Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, II, 440 ; 

 Griff. Notul. IV, 419; DO. Prod. IT, 6\ ; Blume Mus. Bot. Lngd. Bat. 

 I, 198 ; Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 632 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 19 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 305 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 

 212. M. Horsfieldi, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 632. 



Malacca, Penang, Singapore, and probably in all the other Pro- 

 vinces except the Andamans and Nicobars. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



I extract the following note from Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora of 

 British India. " Drupe variable in form, not compressed, oblique, green, 

 smooth, very fetid ;/Zes^ yellow, thick; stone aXmost 2-edged, charta- 

 ceous, fibrons ; cotyledons equal, auricled at the base ; radicle short. 

 (Griffith.) — Maingay describes the fruit as coarse-flavoured, and not 

 unlike Lanjoot {M. lagenifera), stringy. Malay name Bachang or 

 Bachong. Humph and Loureiro describe the drupe as hairy, but no 

 one else does so ; possibly the fibres of the stone are alluded to by these 

 authors." 



15. Mangipeua fragrans, Maingay MSS. ex Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. 

 I, 18. A tree everywhere glabrous ; yoang branches thick, black when 

 dry. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, acuminate or rounded at the apex, the edges undulate ; the base 

 acute, abruptly contracted into the very sleuder petiole, both surfaces 

 conspicuously reticulate; main nerves 25 to 35 pairs, slender, almost 

 horizontal ; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 1-25 to 1-5 in. ; petiole 1 to 2 in. 

 Panicle longer than the leaves, on a long peduncle, spieading ; its 

 branches thick, glabrous, black when dry. Flowers nearly '3 in long, 

 erect, their pedicelb thickened at their apicea. Sepals 5 ? unequal, 



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