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This 19 at ODoe distinguished in the genua by its large flowers and 

 prominently bracteolate peduncles. It has hitherto been collected only 

 in Malacca, and only by Maingay. The great massing of semi-ligneous 

 bracts at the base of the peduncle is quite unique in the genus. 



Besides the foregoing there are in the Calcutta Herbarium flowering 

 specimens of a Mangifera collected by Mr. L. Wray at an elevation of 

 :^,400 feet on Ghinong Batu Pateh in Perak, (Herb. Wray, No. 982). 

 These have good flowers, but not one of them is in fruit. The species is 

 5-merous, and is evidently allied to M. Griffithii, Hook, fil. and to M' 

 longipes. Griff. From the former of these it is distinguished by its 

 glabrous — not puberulous — panicles, and more laxly reticulate leaves 

 with shorter petioles. From M. longipes it differs in having shorter and 

 more condensed panicles and smaller flowers. There are also fruiting 

 specimens of a species gathered by the Calcutta Garden Collector, the 

 late Mr. H. Kunstler, in Perak at an elevation of 600 to 800 feet 

 (King's Collector, No. 7744); but none of them has a single flower on 

 it. The fruit when ripe is described by Mr. Kunstler as yellowish- 

 grey in colour, measuring from four to five inches in length, and about 

 half as much in diameter. The leaves are oblong, tapering to each end, 

 finely reticulate and with 13 to 15 pairs of faint ascending nerves. 

 It is described as a tree 60 to 70 feet in height. 



4. Anacardium, Rottb. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, quite entire. 

 Panicles terminal, bracteate. Flowers polygamous. Galyx deeply 5- 

 partite ; the segments narrow, erect, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, 

 linear-lanceolate, recurved, imbricate. Disc filling the base of the calyx, 

 erect. Stamens 8-10, all or some fertile ; filaments connate and adiiate 

 to the disc. Ovanj obliquely obovoid or obcordate ; style filiform, ex- 

 centric, stigma minute ; ovule 1, semi-pendulous by a funicle from the 

 side of the base of the ovary. Nut kidney-shaped, seated on a large 

 pyriform fleshy body formed of the enlarged disc and top of the peduncle ; 

 pericarp cellular and full of oil. Seed kidney-shaped, ascending ; testa 

 membranous, adherent ; cotyledons semi-lunar ; radicle short, hopked. — 

 DiSTRiB. A small tropical American genus, of which one species is 

 naturalised in Asia. 



Anacardium occidentale, Linn. Sp. PI. 548. A small tree. Leaves 

 coriaceous, glabrous, obovate, obovate-oblong or elliptic ; the apex obtuse, 

 rounded or retuse, the edges entire ; the base cuneate or sub-cune.ate, 

 rarely rounded ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, sprea,ding, rather promi- 

 nent beneath ; length 4 to 9 in., breadth 3 to 6 in. ; petiole '6 to "75 in. 

 Panicles tenaiual, longer than the leaves, on peduncles whicJi lengthen 



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