20 XLYI. ANACARDIACE^]. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mangifera. 



- 20. IVI. policarpa, Griff. Notul iv. 416 (polycarpa), t. 167, f. 2 (csesia) ; 

 leaves large sessile oblanceolate obtusely acuminate faintly reticulated undulate. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



A. large tree, like M. fcetida ; branches stout. Leaves nearly 1 foot long, very 

 coriaceous, nerves "50-30 pairs, arched; petiole \ in., winged, flattened. Flowers 

 unknown. Drupe oblong, base rather broader, brown, dusty all over, of a strong- 

 Dorian* or Mango taste ; flesh and juice copious acid and pleasant ; stone lanceolate, 

 compressed, coriaceo-fibrous ; embryo obclavate. Griffith, from whom most of the 

 above description is taken, says that this is the ' Camang,land that he proposes for it 

 the name of Mangifera t policarpa (misprinted polycarpa, at p. 416 of the Notulae), 

 in allusion to the russet-coloured fruit, which is unique in the genus. Judging from 

 the foliage, this is probably allied to M. ccBsia. 



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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



MANGIFEBA. Pegu, Kurz n. 2021 ; leaves very like those of M. fragrans in 

 shape and size and with equally slender petioles ; but the nerves are far less nume- 

 rous, about 20 pair, arched, very slender, and the under-surface is far less finely 

 reticulate, pale brown and quite opaque. 



MANGIFERA. Pegu, Kurz n. 2020 ; leaves 14-18 by 3-4 in., narrowly 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate membranous glaucous beneath, finely but not closely 

 reticulate, nerves about 30 pair slender well defined slightly arched, petiole 2-4 in-. 

 very slender. I give this as a Mangifera on Kurz's authority. 



*3. AN^C?AKDIU15S, Kottb. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, quite entire. Panicles 

 terminal,, bracteate. Floivers small, polygamous. Calyx 5-partite, segments 

 erect, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, recurved, imbricate. 

 Disk filling the base of the calyx, erect. Stamens 8-10, all or some fertile ; 

 filaments connate and adnate to the disk. Ovary obovoid or obcordate ; style 

 filiform, excentrio, stigma minute; ovule 1, ascending from a lateral funicle. 

 Nut kidney-shaped, seated on a large pyriform fleshy body formed of the 

 enlarged disk and top of the peduncle ; pericarp cellular and full of oil. Seed 

 kidney-shaped, ascending, testa membranous, adherent ; cotyledons semi-lunar ; 

 radicle short, hooked. DISTRIB. A small tropical American genus, of which 

 one species is naturalised in Asia. 



A. occidentale, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 62; leaves obovate or obovate- 

 oblong glabrous obtuse retuse or rounded at the tip, base rounded or cuneate. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 312 ; Wall Cat. 990; Wight. $ Am. Prodr. i. 168; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 40; Date. fy Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl. 18; Griff. Notul. iv, 

 408, t. 565, f. 3 e.f. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 163. Eheede Hort. Mai. iii. t. 54. 



Hotter parts of INDIA, especially near the sea. Naturalised from America. 

 CEYLON. 



A small tree ; trunk short, thick, crooked. Leaves 4-8 by 3-5 in., hard ; nerves 

 about 10 pair, nearly horizontal; petiole |-| in. Panicles 6-10 in., pubescent; 

 branches long naked to the tips where the flowers are collected ; bracts lanceolate, 

 gibbous, hoary. Flowers | in. diam., yellow with pink stripes. Stamens usually 9, 

 all fertile, one larger than the rest. Fruit 1 in., on a pyriform fleshy receptacle 

 2-3 inches long. The Cashew- nut. 



4. BO TIE A, Meissn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous, glabrous, quite entire. Floiucrs 

 small, in axillary and terminal panicles, polygamous. Sepals 3-5, deciduous, 



