Mangifera.^ XLVI. ANACARDIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 19 



.spreading, flowers subsessile, petals 5 linear-lanceolate 3-ridged inserted on the 

 disk, stamens 5 one perfect the rest shorter imperfect. Roxb. FL Ind. ed. 

 Carey, ii. 4-40 ; Watt. Cat. 8488 ; Griff : Notul. iv. 419. M. Horsfieldii & M. 

 fcetida, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 632. Humph. Amb. i. 98. t. 28. 



MALACCA, PENANG, and SINGAPORE, Jack, &c. DISTRIB. Throughout the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



A large tree; branchlets very stout. Leaves very large, 10-12 by 3-4 in., very 

 coriaceous, pale when dry ; surface raised above between the stout nerves, of which 

 there are about 20 pairs ; base acute ; petiole stout, l-2 in. Panicle large, stout, 

 with very spreading branches, and these again with short tertiary cymose branchlets 

 (deep bloood-red, Maingay), black when dry. Flowers ^ in. diam., pink or dark red. 

 Sepals ov\to, obtuse. Petals reflexed from the middle^ inserted on the pedicel-like 

 disk above its base, but not decurrent on the disk. Ovary glabrous ; style slender, 

 lateral. (Drupe variable in form, not compressed, oblique, green, smooth, very fetid ; 

 flesh yellow, thick; stone almost 2-edged, chartaceous, fibrous ; cotyledons equal, 

 auricled at the base ; radicle short. Griffith.} Maingay describes the fruit as 

 coarse-flavoured, and not unlike Lanjoot (M. lagenifera), stringy. Malay name 

 Bachang or Budiong. Kumph and Loureiro describe the drupe as hairy, but no one 

 else does so ; possibly the fibres of the stone are alluded to by these authors. 



18. M = caesia, Jack in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 441 ; leaves cuneate- 

 obovate or -oblong or -elliptic with very short thick petioles, panicle branched 

 tomentose very stout, petals 5 erect adnate to the disk long narrow with one 

 central ridge/ stamen 1. Griff. Notul. iv. 415. M. foetida, JBlume (according 

 to Miqyel in Herb.). 



MALACCA, Maingay (cult.). DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A large stately magnificent tree (Griffith); branchlets very stout. Leaves 6-16 

 by 2^-3|- in., very thickly coriaceous, smooth, rather shining, obscurely reticulated 

 beneath, decurrent on the petiole, which is -1 in. ; nerves about 20-30 pairs, slightly 

 arched. Panicle very stout and much branched (of a glaucous reddish colour, Jack). 

 Flowers in dense heads on the tertiary branchiets, | in. long ; bracts broad ; pedicel 

 very thick, short. Sepals short, broadly ovate, pubescent. Petals erect, adnate by the 

 Tidge to the disk, linear, concave, purple. Disk slightly lobed, Imperfect stamens 

 reduced to mere teeth; filament of perfect one slender. Style lateral, slender. 

 (Drupe oblong-obovate, reddish-white, Jack.) Griffith says that the corolla is more 

 connate with the disk in the female, and that the panicle is cream-coloured and petals 

 -white outside and lilac inside, and that the larger cotyledon alone is auricled. 

 Malay name Beenjai or Binjaee. 



19. IKE. superba, Hook. f. ; leaves very large subsessile cuneate-oblan- 

 ceolate not reticulate, panicle spreading pubescent, flowers subcapitate very- 

 large, petals 5 lanceolate acuminate adnate to the disk with a flat central ridge, 

 stamens 5, 1 perfect. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A gigantic tree (Maingay) ; branchlets as thick as the thumb. Lea ves 10-16 by 

 3-5 in., very thickly coriaceous and hard, obtuse, narrowed below into the short very 

 thick petiole, not reticulate ; nerves about 35 pairs, spreading, not sharply defined 

 but prominent, midrib very stout beneath. Panicle hoary-pubescent, probably 2 ft. 

 long, peduncle very thick ; primary branches strict, ascending, branched at the tips 

 and there bearing heads of flowers two inches across ; bracts large, concave. Flowers 

 ^ in. diam., lilac. Sepals hoary, % in. long, ovate- lanceolate. Petals adnate to the 

 torus by the central ridge, concave, recurved. Filaments all slender, one antheri- 

 ferous. Ovary oblique ; style slender, subterminal ; ovule laterally attached, hori- 

 zontal. This is a grand species, allied to M. ccesia, but far larger in all its parts than, 

 any other of the genus. It is curious that no one but Maingay should have met with 

 so conspicuous a tree. Large sheathing stipule-like scales occur amongst the leaves, 

 whose nature I cannot ascertain. 



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