on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 157 



cleaily from the Mangifera. I shall now give the description, which I took 

 in Mysore. 



HOLIGARNA LONGIFOLIA. Hoit. Beng. 22. 



Tsjiero sen Bibo. Hort. Mulab. iv. 20. 

 Cheru Taulavse. 



Biba Concanse. Buchanans Mysore, iii. 186. 

 Holigarna Carnatse. 

 Habitat in Indiae sylvis montosis, humidis. 



Arbor verniciflua, succo caustico, venenato, recente albo seu hyalino, exsiccato 

 nigricante scufens. Rami cicatricibus obovatis exasperati. Folia alterna, 

 apices versus ramulorum conferta, oblonga, cuneata, acuminata, margine 

 revoluto integerrima, costata, venis reticulata, glabra, junioribus tamen 

 subtus pubescentibus. Petiolus semiteres, brevissimus, denticulo sub- 

 ulato patente utrinque apicem versus instructus, non stipulaceus. 



Racemi infrafoliacei, sparsi, simplicissimi, adscendentes, folio breviores, undi- 

 que pilis ferrugineis tecti. Flores dioeci, pedicellati, parvi, sparsi, vel ali- 

 quando fasciculati, albi. Squamce in racemo et pedicellis vagoe. 



Masculini Jloris calyx minimus, quinquelobus. Petala quinque, ungue lato fere 

 coalita, intus barbata, calyci inserta. Filamenta quinque petalis alterna 

 et longiora, patentia. Antherce cordatse. 



Foeminei Jloris calyx brevissimus, cyathiformis, fundo setosus, ore obsolete 

 quinquangularis. Petala quinque, linearia, intus villosa, ungue lato sub- 

 coalita, calyci inserta. Filamenta quinque, subulata, brevissima, peri- 

 gyna, petalis alterna. Antherce simplices, nescio an fertiles ? Germen 

 magnum, inferum, compressum. Styli tres, erecti. Stigmata crassa. 



Drupa compressa, monosperma. 



Tani, p. 23. tab. 10. 



In the Hindwi dialect I cannot trace the name Gottinga, said to be used by 

 the Brahmans of Malabar for this tree. According to Rheede, the vulgar in- 

 habitants of Malabar reckon this the prototype of the genus Tani, which, 

 however, is very unnatural, as this species has no affinity to the following 

 plant, which is also called 7V/m/, with a specific name prefixed. As I under- 



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