MANGIFERA. 419 
Oss. The best marks of distinction are perhaps drawn from 
the fruit and the seed. 
9. Mangifera fætida Gr. 
Fruit oval, not compressed, apex oblique, green, smooth, 
with a very foetid smell, that of the common mango with a 
suffocating, most disagreeable addition. 
Flesh yellow, thick, passing gradually into yellow fibres 
towards the drupe. Drupe covered with white fibres, com- 
pressed, almost two-edged, inner layer tough, parchment-like, 
seed erect, conformable, tegument chartaceous whitish, (brown 
inside) separating rather with the drupe than the embryo. 
'Cotyledons equal, oblique at the base, each withan auricle 
incumbent on the apex of the radicle, one margin (of the two 
together) as it were, elevated and thickened, so close together 
as to appear on a transverse section almost united, radicle 
short, almost a right angle with the cotyledones. Plumula 
conspicuous, 
. Fructu ovali, apice obliquusculo e compresso viridi fætido 
‘Has. Malacea : Malay name Bachang July. 1842. 
: e Mangifera longipes Gr. 
Arbor, 
Fol. alterna, petioli 2-2} unciali teres graciles, basi incras- 
sati. Lamina oblongo-lanceolata acuminata subrepanda coria- 
cea glabra; venæ 2-dariæ radiuscule conspicuæ interveniis 
minute reticulatis (Sapindacea.) | 
| Panicula terminatis, subpyramidalis tenuis, divisionibus al- 
pag dimos vel racemosis. Bracteis inconspicuis deci- 
-Plores į incon&picui polygami, vel masc. vel fzemin. 
Pedicelli calycesque puberuli. : 
basi planiusculus e 5 pet ERR patentibus. 
tidem angusti-lanceolat. ad medium subito-rcflexa 
3) albida, centro basique lutea. 
Pet, 
