86 SapotacecE. [Miumsops. 



1. VIZ. Eleng-i,* L. Sp. PI. 349 (1753). Muna-mal, S. Makil^ 

 lUukalai, Vilva-pattiri, T. 



Herm. Mus 23, 39. Burm. Thes. 27. Fl. Zeyl. n. 138. Moon Cat, 31. 

 Thw. Enum. 175. C. P. 1794. 



FI. B. Ind. iii. 548 (not given for Ceylon). Gaertn. Fruct. t. 42 (fruit). 

 Wight, Ic. t. 1586. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 40. 



A large tree with erect trunk and compact leafy head,, 

 bark reddish-brown, branchlets drooping, young parts silky 

 with fine, adpressed hair, 1. numerous, distant, on slender 

 cylindrical petioles i in. long, large, 4-2—6 in., oval, subacute 

 at base, acuminate, obtuse at apex, undulate, glabrous, dark 

 green and polished above, paler beneath, rather thick, lat. 

 veins very numerous and slender, stip. minute, lanceolate,, 

 quickly falling, fl. in fascicles of 1-4 in 1. -axils, ped. \-\ in., 

 adpressed-pubescent, often deflexed ; cal.-segm. 8, lanceolate,, 

 subacute, outer ones pubescent ; cor.-tube short, fleshy, lobes 

 24 in three series of 8 each, linear-oblong, acute, often slightly 

 lacerate ; stam. 8, anth. nearly sessile, sharply acuminate,, 

 cells divergent at base ; staminodes 8 alternate with stam., 

 oval, acuminate, hairy on outside ; ov. silky-pubescent ; fruit 

 rather over i in., ovate-ovoid or ovoid, apiculate, pubescent 

 when young, afterwards glabrous, orange-yellow; seed solitary, 

 under i in., ovoid, compressed, brown, shining. 



Low country ; rather common, often cultivated. Fl. March ; white,, 

 becoming cream-coloured. 



Also in Indian and Malayan Peninsulas. 



The flowers are very sweet-scented, and retain their odour when dry ; 

 the natives prepare a scent from them. Timber used for building, the 

 wood is even-grained, hard, and heavy, pinkish-red, and looking like raw 

 beef when fresh cut, afterwards pale reddish-brown. The bark is bitter, 

 used in medicine and in the manufacture of arrack, and the fruit edible. 



2. M. Iiezandra, Koxb. Cor. PI. i. 16 (1795). Palu? S. Falai, 7". 



Moon Cat. 31. M. indica, A. DC, Thw. Enum. 175. C. P. 1793. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 549. Wight, Ic. t. 1587. 



A very large tree with a tall stout unbranched trunk, and 

 few thick spreading primary branches, bark blackish- grey, 

 deeply furrowed vertically, young parts glabrous ; 1. numerous, 

 rather small, 1^.-3 in., broadly obovate, acute at base, truncate 

 emarginate or bilobed at apex, glabrous, subcoriaceous, vena- 

 tion pellucid, inconspicuous, petiole f in., channelled above; fl. 

 small, numerous, on slender curved rusty ped. about | in. long,. 

 1-3 in 1. axils ; cal. about \ in., segm. 6, lanceolate, subacute,, 

 puberulous ; cor.-lobes 18, 6 longer than the rest, linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; stam. 6, fil. as long as anth., anth. not 



* Elengi is the name given in Rheede, Hort. Malab. for this tree. 



