18 XLVI. ANACARDIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Mangifera. 



A. tree, everywhere quite glabrous, or very obscurely pubescent on the panicle. 

 Leaves 6-12 by 2-4 in., very coriaceous, reticulate on both surfaces ; nerves about 20- 

 pairs, very strong ; petiole stout, 1^ 1 J in., much thickened from below the middle to 

 the base. Panicle with stout green branches that turn black when dry. Flowers % in. 

 diam., odorous, flesh-coloured. Sepals ovate-oblong. Petals three times as long, 

 reflexed, greenish, suffused with blood -red. Perfect stamens sometimes 2 (Griffith), 

 the imperfect ones slender, subulate, capitate. Ovary glabrous. (Drupe oblong, 

 stinking, yellow-green, with yellow spots, filled with a sticky gum ; flesh yellow, fibrpus, 

 sweet, not turpentiny ; stone compressed, fibrous ; cotyledons rugose, equal at the 

 Cbase, one overlapping at the top. Griffith.') Malay name " Kocene " or " Kohini," 

 according to Griffith, which is the name Maingay gives to M. oblongifolia (a totally 

 different plant). This much resembles M. Parih, Miq., of Java, which has a more 

 effuse panicle with long tertiary branchlets and very long pedicels. 



15. BE. lag-enifera, Griff. Notul. iv. 414, t. 567, f. 3 ; leaves small 

 obovate-oblong or -spathulate obtuse or rounded at the tip, panicle large spread- 

 ing pubescent, petals 5 linear-oblong obscurely thickened in the middle, stamens 

 6 perfect. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Gumming (2330), Maingay. 



A. very lofty tree ( Griffith) ; branchlets stout, with pale bark. Leaves 3-6 by 

 l- If in., very thjicVlv^<'OT'iafyn^s 1 gradually narrowed into a very stout petiole f-l 

 in., not reticulate on either surface ; nerves about 20 pairs, very faint, spreading and 

 parallel. Panicle on a long and stout peduncle, much exceeding the leaves. Flowers 

 in. diam. ; pedicels very short. Sepals many, orbicular, tomentose. Petals three 

 times as long, concave, purple, erect till a late period. Disk a slender stipes. Fila- 

 ments very slender (purple, alternating with short horns, Maingay). Ovary glabrous ; 

 style capillary, lateral. (Drupe pyriform, 4^ by 2 in., pale green, with a pink blush, 

 flesh livid or purplish flesh-colour ; stone fibro-coriaceous, adherent to the membranous 

 testa ; radicle basal, very large. Maingay.) Called Lanjoot by the Malays, according 

 to Maingay and Griffith. The latter describes the drupe as smooth, glaucescent, 

 fleshy, fetid, exuding a black varnish, traversed by innumerable fibres ; stone ovate- 

 lanceolate, fibro-coriaceous. Seed erect, adhering to the black tegument on the one 

 side, on the other smooth ; cotyledons with one half the surface smooth, the other 

 wrinkled. Maingay describes the disk as hemispherical, but I do not find it so. 



16. M. fragrans, Maingay MSS. ; leaves very narrowly linear-oblong- or 

 lanceolate acute acuminate or rounded at the tip, panicle spreading quite gla- 

 "brous, petals narrow linear, stamens 5, one much longer than the others whose 

 anthers are imperfect. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A tree, everywhere quite glabrous. Leaves much longer and narrower than in any 

 other species, 6-10 by l^~l| in., coriaceous, reticulated on both surfaces, margins 

 -waved, base acute abruptly contracted into a very slender petiole 1-2 in.; 

 nerves 2535 pairs, slender, almost horizontal. Panicle longer than the leaves, 

 peduncle long and branches thick, black when dry. Flowers erect, almost ^ in. long ; 

 pedicel turbinate. Sepals unequal, ovate-lanceolate. Petals very narrow, erect, 

 reflexed sharply from the middle, 1-nerved (Maingay), 3-nerved in a young state. 

 Disk a slender pedicel. Filaments very slender, shorter than the capillary style, 

 which is lateral. (Drupe obliquely broadly oblong-globose ; flesh yellow, acid and 

 terebinthine ; stone thin, fibrous ; testa coriaceous, Maingay.} This in foliage 

 approaches very closely Blume's M. macrocarpa of Java, which has still narrower 

 leaves with crimped edges, 40 pairs of nerves, and a bitter-sweet fruit as large as a 

 child's head. 



** Petals adnate to or inserted on the disk. 



17. SS. feet Ida, Lmir. Fl Cock. 160 ; leaves large elliptic-oblong or 

 -obovate obtuse or acute not reticulate, nerves strong, panicle very stout glabrous 



