Mangifera.~\ XLVI. ANACAKDIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 17" 



short ovate with 3 short confluent ridges, stamen 1, the others reduced to minute 

 teeth. Watt. Cat. 8489. 



PENANG, Jack; MALACCA, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A lofty tree, perfectly glabrous throughout ; branchlets very stout. Leaves 4-8 by 

 l|-2 in., rarely acute, very coriaceous ; nerves 15-20 pairs, reticulfction above obso- 

 lete ; petiole 1-2. in. Racemes equalling or exceeding the leaves, collected on a short 

 peduncle, rachis stout, branchlets 1-6 flowered. Flowers small, I in. diam. ; pedicel 

 longer than the petals. Sepals broadly orbicular-ovate. Petals twice as long, pearly- 

 white (Maingay) ; the ridges raised at their ends. Stamens very short, inserted on 

 the disk. Disk tumid, 4-lobed. Style lateral. (Drupe roundish, becoming very 

 dark-coloured, Jack}. Maingay in his MSS. describes the petals as 5, and stamens as 

 usually 2, but I find the flower to be uniformly 4-merous and monandrous ; Jack 

 however states that a small superfluous fifth petal is sometimes placed within the 

 rest. This is allied in flower and inflorescence to M. Griffithii. 



12. 1H. Maingrayi, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-oblong- acute or acuminate 

 not reticulate on either surface or obscurely so beneath only, panicle glabrous 

 spreading, flowers pedicelled, petals 4 oblong with 3-5 confluent ridges, stamen 

 1 perfect, the others reduced to teeth. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A. tree, everywhere quite glabrous. Leaves 4-9 'by 1|-3| in., coriaceous, nerves 

 15-20 pairs, not strong, arched; petiole 1-2 in. Panicle equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves, branches pale green (when dry), rather slender. Flowers i in. diam., pedicel 

 slender. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Petals about twice as long. Stamen short. Style 

 subulate, subterminal. There appear to be two varieties of this in Maingay's Her- 

 barium ; one (called Sapoong or Sampong), with larger leaves not narrowed into the 

 petiole, opaque above, with sunk nerves, tumid between the nerves ; the other 

 (marked as truly wild) with brown (when dry) more shining leaves, narrowed into 

 the petiole, more reticulated beneath, and the nerves not sunk ; its leaves are like 

 those of M. indica, from which its glabrous pedicelled flowers and warted petals at once 

 distinguish it ; both differ from M. guadrifida in the inflorescence. The first variety 

 has, according to Maingay, globose green fruit 3-4 by 2|-3 in. 



13. IK. microphylla, Griff. MSS. ; leaves small elliptic acuminate 

 reticulate beneath, panicle stout contracted puberulous, flowers very shortly 

 pedicelled, sepals broadly ovate, petals 4 oblong with 3 ridges, stamen 1 with- 

 out rudiments of others. 



MALACCA, Griffith ; in orchards. 



A small tree ( Griffith}. Leaves 1^-4 by f-l in.,' shining above ; nerves 8-10-pairs ; 

 petiole slender, 5-^ in. Panicle short, stout, rather irregular, sometimes reduced to 

 erect compound racemes, by the abbreviation of the peduncle and the branches being 

 erect. Flowers about i in. diam., on short stout pedicels. Sepals pubescent. Petals 

 about twice as long, the ridges distinct. Filament slender. Style lateral. Fruit ovi- 

 form, green, very, turpentiny, Griffith. Griffith has what appears to be a small state 

 of this, with small very shining leaves, quite polished on the upper surface. 



SECT. 2. Disk narrow, often reduced to the form of a stalk to the ovary, 

 rarely obsolete in the $ fl. 



* Petals free from the disk. 



14. ZK. odorata, Griff. Notul. iv. 417; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblong 

 acute or acuminate-reticulate, panicle very stout with ascending stout branches 

 gkbrous, petals 5 linear-oblong reflexed from the middle with a thick branching 

 ridge. M. foetida, var. d. Miquel in Herb. Hook. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTKIB. Java (Zollinger, 430). 

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