422 ANACARDIACE. 
cut, fine fibrous externally, this is lined inside by the adher- 
ing brown teguments of the seed. 
Hence the embryo appears quite naked on opening, the 
drupe becoming exposed and conspicuous from its lilac 
colour. 
. Cotyledons equal plano-convex, outside reticulate rugose 
from the pressure of the inner surface of the drupe, inside of 
a deeper lilac! Embryo erect. Radicle curved, on line of the 
commissure of the cotyledons. Plumule conspicuous : a form 
of Leguminous embryo. 
Has. Malacca. Melay name Roomanya Bartool. 
This is the large leaved species, which grows to a 
good sized tree, with a very dense oblong crown. 
The smaller species, of which I have a flowering specimen 
from Rev. Mr. White : is the B. Peego, or from its very small 
leaves, B. microphylla. It also attains the size of a mo- 
derate tree, and has a dense crown. 
The genus is certainly distinct from Mangifera, in habit 
articularly, but scarcely in the flowers, taking Mangifera 
comprehensively (Langoot, M. lagenifera as the test) and in 
the scarcely drupaceous evalvular fruit. 
In the Mangifera oppositifolia of Roxburgh, Wight and 
Arnot say the style is composed of 3 combined, and that 
there are 3 stigmas, of which 2 are abortive ,and 1 fertile, and E 
much larger. : 
Now if this were the case, it would be a direct passage to 
Buchanania, and in that group I see nothing like sucha struc  * — 
ture, and even if the stigma be 3-lobed as Roxburgh says, i 3 
does not follow that the style is compound ; on the contrary the à 
ventral suture, and obliquity of the ovarium are against it, be- 
sides there is no dorsal sinus ; if stigma, the number of sta- 
mina is nothing, the erect embryo nothing, the keeled petals 
nothing, so that the, only distinctions are habit and evalvul 
nuts, which last are constant. : 
In this plant there is the commencement. of the structure 
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