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fleshy, fetid, exuding a black varnish, ti-a versed by innumerable fibres ; 

 sione ovafce-lanceolate, fibro-coriaoeous. Seed erect, adhering to the 

 black tegument on tlie dne side, ou the other smooth ; cohjledons with 

 one half the surface smooth, the other wrinkled. Maingay describes 

 the disc as hemispherical, but I do not find it so." 



37. Mangifera kbmanga, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 202« 

 A large tree with very stout young branches. Leaves crowded at the 

 apices of the branches, coriaceous, sub-sessile, oblanceolate or obovate- 

 oblong or cuneate-oblong, sub-acute or shortly and obtusely acuminate, 

 the edges sub-undulate, gradually narrowed from below tlie niiddle 

 to the base, glabrous and the reticulations obsolete on both surfaces : 

 main nerves 20 to 22 pairs, slender but distinct on both surfaces, th« 

 midrib also broad and distinct ; length 9 to 15 in., breadth 25 to 4 in. • 

 petiole sometimes -1 to -3 in. but usually absent. Panicle laro-e, termi- 

 nal, much longer than the leaves, 20 to 30 in. long, on a stout angled 

 peduncle covered by minute white hairs with a few longer brown ones 

 intermixed : branches of the panicle angled, spreading and dividing, 

 tlie flowers borne in cyraules at the ends of tlie bi'anchlets ; hracteoles 

 bi'oadly ovate, concave, pubescent, deciduous. Floivers '25 in. long, of a 

 rich pinkish purple, their pedicels short. Sepals 5, erect, linear- lan- 

 ceoUte, thick, concave, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, less 

 tJian twice as long as tlie sepals, erect, linear-lanceolate, concave, thick 

 the edges thickened and undulate, glabrous, with a single mesial ridge 

 in front. Stamen 1, shorter tlian the petals : the anther ovate, short. Disc 

 narrow, embracing tlie base of the sub-globose ovary ; style sublateral 

 filiform : stigma small, terminal. Drupe (fide Grifiith) oblong, a little 

 gibbous at the base, obliquely emarginate near the apex, of a brown 

 colour and with the smell of a dorian or mango : flesh and juice copious 

 fibres very abundant. Stone in outline lanceolate, rather compressed 

 not woody but fibro-coriaceous, seed erect. M. policarpa, Griff. Notul. 

 IV, 416, t. 567, fig. 2; Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 20; Engler Mon. Phan. 

 IV, 213. 



Malacca : Griffith. Sumatra : Forlies, No. 3198. 

 This is a species closely allied to M. caesia, Jack, but the leaves of 

 this are usually quite sessile and the panicle is greatly larger. Griffith's 

 Msilacca specimens consist of leaves only, his df^scription extends to 

 the fruit, but not to the flowers. I have described the flowers from 

 Forbes's Sumatra plant, the leaves of which appear to me to resemble 

 perfectly those of Griffith's Malacca specimens ; and they ao-ree to tiie 

 minutest detail with Blume's full description. The vernacular name in 

 Malacca is, according to Griffith, Gamnng which accoi-ding to Blume 

 changes ou the Archipelago to Kemany, Kamang and Kamanga. 



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