476 Materials for a Ptora tf the Malayan Peninsula. 



ovafp-lanceolate. Petals 5 ? narrowly linear-oblong, erect below but 

 sliai'ply reflexed about the middle, with 1 to 3 vertical ridfres.' 

 /S/ai/'c^s 5, one much long-er than the others whose anthers at'e imper- 

 fect (Hooker) ; filaments very slender, shorter than the lateral capillary 

 style. (" Drtope obliquely broadly oblong-globose ; the flesh yellow, acid 

 and terebinthiue : stone tldii, fibioas, the testa coriaceous." Maiiujay.) 



Malacca : Maiugay, No. 473. 



Concerning the species, Sir Joseph Hooker remarks in a note (Z. c. 

 18) as follows : " This in foliage approaches veiy closely Blume's 

 M. wacromrpa of Java, which has still narrower leaves with crimped 

 edges, 40 pairs of nerves, and a bitter-sweet fruit as large as a child's 

 head. Dr. Engler believes that this is M. macrocarpa Blume and (Mon. 

 Plian. IV, 211) reduces it to that species. The very long narrow crisped- 

 edged leaves and lafge fruit distinguish it." 



16. Mangifera LAGENiPERA, Griff. Notul. IV, 414, t. 567, fig. 3. 

 A tree 50 to 80 feet high ; the young branches stout, pale Avheu dry. 

 Leaves very coriaceous, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 rounded, gradually narrowed below the middle to the stout petiole ; both 

 surfaces dull when dry, not reticulate, the 16 to 20 pairs of straight 

 spreading main nerves very faint ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 1/6 

 in. ; petiole *5 to "9 in., flattened. Panicle puberulous, (purple in colour 

 when fresh) much exceeding the leaves, on a stout peduncle ; the 

 branches lax, ascending, and bearing pedunculate cymose branchlets. 

 Flowers "35 in. in diam., on pedicels shorter than themselves ; bracteole 

 large, broad, hooded. Sepals 5, (often 6) spreading; broadly ovate, 

 pubescent outside. Petals 5, (often 6) two or three times as long- 

 as the sepals, erect, oblanceolate or sub-spathulate, obtuse, puberulous 

 outside, slightly concave and thickened in the middle, purple. Stamens 

 5 or 6, all perfect, neai^y as long as the petals ; anthers ovate, short ; 

 filaments long, slender. Disc slender, cylindric. Ovary obliquely 

 obovoid, glabrous ; the style as long as the stamens, sub-terminal. 

 (Drif_pe pyriform, pale green with a pink blush; jmlp livid or of a 

 purplish flesh-colour : stone fibro-coi-iaceous, adherent to the membra- 

 nous texta ; radicle basal, very laige," Maingay) length 4"5 in., breadth 

 2-5 in. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1104 ; Maingay, No. 469. 



The description of the fruit above given was taken by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker from Maingay's notes, and has been by me copied from the 

 Flora of British India. Concei-ning the fruit Sir Joseph has the follow- 

 ing note on Giiffith's account of it which I quote verbatim from Fl. 

 Br. liid. II, 18. " Called Lanjoot by the Malays, according to Maingay 

 aud Griflith. The lattey describes the drupe as smooth, glaucuaccnt, 



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